PhatBoyG (Chris Patterson)

Leveraging Windows 7 Boot to VHD to Test Visual Studio 2010

The goal of this article is simple: a clean installation of Windows 7 that can be used to test new versions of Visual Studio 2010 until we reach RTM. Since a new beta drops every couple of months (and maybe even an interim release or two in between for...

Published Fri, Jan 01 2010 7:11 PM by Chris Patterson

Traveling to Technical Events

Over the past couple of years I have been traveling more, both for work and to attend and/or present at a variety of technical events. While I have yet to earn the esteemed grizzled road veteran merit badge, I have managed to learn a few things along...

Published Wed, Dec 23 2009 11:49 AM by Chris Patterson

Building a Service Gateway Using MassTransit, Part 3

This post is the third in a series on building a highly available service gateway. The implementation will be built in C# using MassTransit , StructureMap , ASP.NET MVC , and NHibernate . Did somebody say code? The past two posts began to explain how...

Published Sat, Oct 31 2009 10:58 PM by Chris Patterson

Filed under: masstransit

Building a Service Gateway Using MassTransit, Part 2

This post is the second in a series on building a highly available service gateway. The implementation will be built in C# using MassTransit, StructureMap, ASP.NET MVC, and NHibernate. Continued... In part one, I discussed two exchange patterns that are...

Published Thu, Oct 29 2009 6:34 PM by Chris Patterson

Filed under: masstransit

Building A Service Gateway Using MassTransit, Part 1

This post is the first in a series on building a highly available service gateway. The implementation will be built in C# using MassTransit, StructureMap, ASP.NET MVC, and NHibernate. Introduction A common way of applying a messaging solution to an existing...

Published Wed, Oct 28 2009 11:18 PM by Chris Patterson

Filed under: masstransit

Performance Counters Added to MassTransit

One feature that is often overlooked in software development is the output of information that can be observed by operations once the application is in production. Fortunately, many open source projects are leveraging log4net to provide a configurable...

Published Wed, Oct 14 2009 11:57 AM by Chris Patterson

Filed under: .net, masstransit, c#

Interface Subscriptions Now Supported by MassTransit

Last year when we were reviewing the backlog of items that we wanted to build for MassTransit, one item that kept rising to the top of the list is a solid story for evolving message producers over the lifecycle of an enterprise system. Being able to publish...

Published Wed, Sep 16 2009 9:46 PM by Chris Patterson

Filed under: .net, masstransit, msmq, esb

Under the Covers with MassTransit Endpoints

This post details some of the internal changes to how MassTransit , an open-source lightweight service bus, communicates with transports such as MSMQ, ActiveMQ, and TIBCO. These changes are not likely to impact anyone using MassTransit, they are all well...

Published Sat, Sep 12 2009 3:57 PM by Chris Patterson

Filed under: .net, activemq, masstransit, msmq, c#

Event Aggregator Using the Magnum Pipeline

In the past few weeks, both Udi Dahan and Jeremy D. Miller have posted on events. Udi posted about domain events, while Jeremy posted about his use of the event aggregator pattern in StoryTeller. In each case, events are represented as messages and each...

Published Tue, Jul 28 2009 1:11 AM by Chris Patterson

Filed under: .net

Accessing ActiveMQ on Mac OSX from a Windows VM

With MassTransit , we support multiple messaging transports, including MSMQ (comes with Windows), ActiveMQ (an open-source Java message broker), and TIBCO EMS (a not-so-open-source message broker). With that in mind, teams building on the Windows platform...

Published Sun, Jul 12 2009 3:46 PM by Chris Patterson

Filed under: .net, osx, mac, activemq, masstransit, msmq

I'm a Microsoft C# MVP!

Opening my Inbox this morning resulted in a pleasant surprise from Microsoft. I have been presented with the 2009 Microsoft® MVP Award as a recognition for sharing my expertise in Visual C# with others. It is an honor to be recognized by Microsoft...

Published Wed, Jul 01 2009 8:14 PM by Chris Patterson

Filed under: .net, c#

Dallas TechFest 2009 Tomorrow

It's been a couple of busy weeks! The weekend before my presentations in Arkansas, I decided to forego sleep and go to Wakarusa ! The Saturday lineup included two of my favorite electronica acts, Shpongle and Ott , and introduced to another band STS9...

Published Thu, Jun 18 2009 11:04 PM by Chris Patterson

Presenting on Event Driven Architecture and MassTransit

Event Driven Architecture Business applications no longer exist as isolated systems. In order to provide integrated solutions that add business value, applications must be connected. Modern approaches for enterprise application integration (EAI) such...

Published Wed, May 27 2009 10:57 PM by Chris Patterson

Filed under: .net, masstransit, esb

MassTransit Now Speaks XML By Default

Last night, I made a major update to the trunk of MassTransit that changes the default message format from binary to XML. Since the first drop of MassTransit , the default format for messages was binary . This had several advantages, one being the ability...

Published Wed, May 27 2009 10:12 AM by Chris Patterson

Filed under: .net, masstransit, msmq

MassTransit Saga Enhancements for Event Processing

In the past year, I've been learning about Event Driven Architecture and how using it in the enterprise can make adding functionality over time easier through a loosely-coupled event-based architecture. With Event Driven Architecture, business components...

Published Fri, May 22 2009 10:32 PM by Chris Patterson

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Leveraging Windows 7 Boot to VHD to Test Visual Studio 2010

Traveling to Technical Events

Building a Service Gateway Using MassTransit, Part 3

Building a Service Gateway Using MassTransit, Part 2

Building A Service Gateway Using MassTransit, Part 1

Performance Counters Added to MassTransit

Interface Subscriptions Now Supported by MassTransit

Under the Covers with MassTransit Endpoints

Event Aggregator Using the Magnum Pipeline

Accessing ActiveMQ on Mac OSX from a Windows VM

I'm a Microsoft C# MVP!

Dallas TechFest 2009 Tomorrow

Presenting on Event Driven Architecture and MassTransit

MassTransit Now Speaks XML By Default

MassTransit Saga Enhancements for Event Processing