As previously announced in this post: “Microsoft
Announces CodeZone!“,  Tech
Head Brothers, my French portal about Microsoft .NET technologies, will be
part of Codezone.  Today for the first time I am able to see what this
means to be a part of the Codezone program.

What can you expect from the Beta Experience?

This evening I continued my journey with the C# Generics.
I refactored what I described in my post “DataAccessLayer.FindAll(PublishedBy(Author))
“ to be able to use the Design
Pattern Interpreter.

One of the first development rule is to write human readable
code. Why ? To avoid to have to write comments ;-) Because it
will be read as a spoken language and it
separate important code from distracting one.

This evening (hum morning ;) I decided to give a try to the conversion
wizard integrated in Visual Studio 2005 that let you import older 1.1
projects.
I choosed to import my whole website: Tech Head Brothers. You might
see next the conversion report:

“Today, you can download a tool that you can use to describe the concepts in a problem domain as the basis for a modeling tool or graphical designer. It is itself a graphical tool built on top of our designer platform and it is completely integrated into Visual Studio. For example, if you need a business process modeling tool, this editor allows you to describe the concepts specific to the way you like to model your business processes.”

It is basically a graphical designer hosted in Visual Studio 2005 for designing and editing the concepts (or metamodel) of visual domain specific languages.

There is also an interesting : “Walkthrough of the Microsoft Tools for Domain Specific Languages“ showing the use of the object model for a user interaction process (UIP) chart language. UIP chart defines pages and transitions between them as part of the design of a Web site, a wizard, or a form-based application. Figure 1 is an example of a UIP chart for a fictitious online shopping Web site. You might find more information on this page about the User Interface Process (UIP) Application Block - Version 2.0.

I knew I read it somewhere !!! Latest release of Whidbey permits to hide the components on the designer. Use the View menu Non Visual Controls, shortcut Ctrl+Shift+N.

A sad day for component developers

It seems that we will be updated on Whidbey :-) Nice. I will add to my development an evoluation of the Team System tools.

Visual Studio 2005 Beta 1 refresh with Team System

Msdn published an interesting article concerning the new XML possibilities of the IDE Visual Studio 2005.

Summary:

This is a list of ASP.NET 2 articles (more to come):

Quickstart