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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 07 2009 8:14 PM by Chris Patterson

Filed under: .net, c#

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 05 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 05 2009 10:12 AM by Chris Patterson

Filed under: .net, masstransit, msmq

I'm Down With M.V.C., Yeah You Know Me!

Over the past week, I've had some time to dig into the new ASP.NET MVC framework . For starters, my background in web development is mostly classic ASP talking to COM objects built in C++. I've only used ASP.NET to provide web services for smart...

Published Sun, May 05 2009 9:48 PM by Chris Patterson

Filed under: altdotnet, .net

Declarative Workflow with MassTransit

One of the really cool features that is available in the 0.6 release of MassTransit is the ability to declaratively define a saga/workflow using a nested-closure syntax in combination with a fluent builder. While some wonder if fluent interfaces are going...

Published Tue, Apr 04 2009 9:53 PM by Chris Patterson

Filed under: .net

MassTransit 0.6 Release Candidate

I'm proud to announce that we are getting close to a final 0.6 release of MassTransit . We've been working on this release since early December and have added a lot of new functionality. We're also glad to have integrated a number of patches...

Published Mon, Mar 03 2009 10:17 PM by Chris Patterson

Filed under: .net

Dr. Dru and PhatBoyG On Elegant Code Cast

Just over a week ago, Dru Sellers and I recorded a podcast with Elegant Code rs Jarod Ferguson and David Starr . We spent a couple of hours discussing event driven architecture (EDA), messaging, and MassTransit . Through the magic of editing, they managed...

Published Thu, Mar 03 2009 12:41 AM by Chris Patterson

Filed under: .net

State Machine for Managing Sagas

MassTransit supports sagas, which are long-lived transactions consisting of multiple events. The saga support makes it easy to orchestrate the events into a process, but it doesn't do much to help with state management. Since state management is fairly...

Published Fri, Jan 01 2009 11:42 PM by Chris Patterson

Filed under: .net, masstransit

Running the PDC Visual Studio 2010 Drop on VMware Fusion

At the Microsoft PDC in Los Angeles this year, attendees received a CTP of Visual Studio 2010 on an external HD along with all the conference materials. VSX came installed on Windows Server 2008 (along with TFS) giving attendees a chance to dig into the...

Published Mon, Nov 11 2008 8:52 PM by Chris Patterson

Filed under: .net, osx, mac

New MassTransit Screencast and Sample

One of the more common scenarios I hear about when talking about building a service-oriented architecture has to do with providing a web service to external customers. This is often in the context of providing information from an internal system. The...

Published Thu, Oct 10 2008 12:38 AM by Chris Patterson

Filed under: .net

Heartland Developers Conference 2008

This past week I had the pleasure of attending the Heartland Developers Conference in Omaha, Nebraska. I was already in town visiting family and decided to take a day to see what the local flavor had to offer. I'm particularly grateful to Joe Olsen...

Published Sun, Oct 10 2008 9:03 PM by Chris Patterson

Filed under: .net

Deeper Look at MassTransit Screencast

If you haven't watched the video from the presentation Dru and I did on Thursday at Tulsa TechFest, I recommend you watch it if you are interested in MassTransit and seeing how it works. Once you have watched it, check out the new screencast I just...

Published Sun, Oct 10 2008 11:46 PM by Chris Patterson

Filed under: .net

Tulsa TechFest Wrap Up

This past Thursday and Friday, the Tulsa TechFest was held at OSU Tulsa in Tulsa (could I write Tulsa one more time, I knew I could). Attendance was high and most of the sessions I attended were in rooms full of people. The day started off early Thursday...

Published Sun, Oct 10 2008 6:53 PM by Chris Patterson

Filed under: .net

MassTransit 0.4 Released

I'm happy to say that we've just tied a bow around the latest release of MassTransit . Release 0.4 includes a number of new features and some tweaks to the internals as well. I'm going to describe a few of those features below, but you can...

Published Tue, Oct 10 2008 9:33 PM by Chris Patterson

Filed under: .net

MassTransit 0.3 Released

Download MassTransit 0.3 Here Last night, Dru and I released version 0.3 of MassTransit. This is a pretty hefty milestone release with a lot of new functionality. I'm going to run down a list of some of the new features that made it into this version...

Published Wed, Sep 09 2008 10:51 AM by Chris Patterson

Filed under: .net, masstransit, msmq, servicebus, esb

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Presenting on Event Driven Architecture and MassTransit

MassTransit Now Speaks XML By Default

I'm Down With M.V.C., Yeah You Know Me!

Declarative Workflow with MassTransit

MassTransit 0.6 Release Candidate

Dr. Dru and PhatBoyG On Elegant Code Cast

State Machine for Managing Sagas

Running the PDC Visual Studio 2010 Drop on VMware Fusion

New MassTransit Screencast and Sample

Heartland Developers Conference 2008

Deeper Look at MassTransit Screencast

Tulsa TechFest Wrap Up

MassTransit 0.4 Released

MassTransit 0.3 Released