What we do: We empower your content with amazing user experience while helping you manage and publish to the widest possible audience with minimal effort.

• We have solved the data incompatibilities and you have one source for iTunes video podcasts, as well as all the Media RSS consumers. What you see in iTunes is using the same format for data we use internally, as well as inside Boxee and the other major distribution channels

  • Oone Media RSS stream is driving everything you see as content here. We handle integrating with all of the complex metadata to seamless ‘just work’ in almost any environment.
    

• We are one of the first to support all existing HD and non-HD formats as well as the emerging and compelling Smooth Streaming formats including Deep Zoom navigation (click to see what the Hard Rock Cafe achieved)We are the first company to deliver this for live events combined with synchronized non-static data with auto-transition to on-demand content. See our example here

• EXPONENTIAL speed improvements (via the cloud-integrated Content Delivery Network)

• High Definition is now possible for anyone at the levels previously reserved for a handful (Amazon-Google levels we bring to anyone)

We integrate content encoding, Podcast management and distribution, CDN deployment for amazingly fast consumer speeds,  streaming media formats, new content creation, live presentation services, Synchronization – such as presentations with PowerPoint slide integration.

We get you to global best-practices in media in minimal effort or cost

Just explore what we publish such as our District 9 and DeepZoom examples. And we are not a content provider (!).

Imagine how fast and easy we can improve your exposure at nearly zero cost.

new deep zoom related enhancements - click below

The demo which shows off most of below (and much more including deep zoom) check out the Movie Trailer sample of our platform. This platform can be used by anyone as a site template for media, a personal app, and is fully customizable either as Expression Encoder 3 templates (no support for 2) or controls with template parts/skin exposed customizations just like Microsoft controls.

http://www.tangentux.com/

• True HD video

• Smooth Streaming

• Go out of browser

• Mac, Windows, and Linux

• Millions of skilled developers to help you

• Seamless Designer-Developer workflow

• Monetize your assets

• Silverlight DRM, Powered by PlayReady

• Compatible with Windows Media DRM 10

• Third Party DRM Providers

• Advertising

• Lower delivery costs

• Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0 Media Services

• Windows Media Services 2008

• Multicast Support for Silverlight

True HD video

Customers can enjoy 720/1080p true HD-quality video using H.264 (MP4/F4V) or WMV/VC-1. Use your existing Windows Media library or add support for third-party codecs.

Silverlight 3 now supports H.264 natively for playback of MP4 or F4V files. Silverlight also supports Windows Media Video (WMV) 9, which is Microsoft’s implementation of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) VC-1 codec standard. In addition to WMA and WMA Pro audio codecs, Silverlight supports MP3 audio and with Silverlight 3 supports MP4 standard AAC audio.

With Silverlight 3 it’s easy to add in support for managed codecs. Developers can deliver non-native Silverlight codecs via an application, and using the new Raw AV pipeline audio or video is then rendered in Silverlight.

Leveraging graphics processor unit (GPU) hardware acceleration, Silverlight experiences can now be delivered in true full-screen HD (720p+). The GPU can be used for windowed or full-screen video scaling enabling smoother playback.

Silverlight’s support for VC-1 and legacy Windows Media Video formats means that existing WMV content libraries are Silverlight-ready. Video encoded for Silverlight can be simultaneously delivered to other Windows Media compatible players on a variety of platforms and devices.

Smooth Streaming

Extend viewing times using Smooth Streaming. Adjust the quality in real-time based upon the consumer’s changing bandwidth and CPU conditions. Get minimal buffering and quick start-up time using HTTP-based adaptive streaming.

Smooth Streaming is a new extension for Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0 Media Services, enabling adaptive streaming of media to Silverlight clients via HTTP.

Smooth Streaming dynamically detects and seamlessly switches, in real time, the video quality of a media file that a Silverlight player receives based on local bandwidth and CPU conditions. Consumers with high bandwidth connections can experience HD quality streaming while others with lower bandwidth speeds receive the appropriate stream for their connectivity, allowing consumers across the board to enjoy a compelling, uninterrupted streaming experience which leads to extended audience engagement.

Media companies can boost advertising and subscription revenues by using true HD (720p+) video with uninterrupted delivery to extend viewing times. By using Smooth Streaming, leverage the massive scale of existing HTTP infrastructure. Proprietary streaming networks have much fewer resources than HTTP and network congestion can limit access to popular content.

Live Smooth Streaming (in-beta) also enables PVR-style access and navigation to live video streams. Join events in progress and quickly seek to the beginning, rewind the highlights and enjoy the Silverlight experience in your own way.

Go out of browser

Play video whether you are connected via the Web or not. Save content locally for disconnected scenarios and update when you connect.

Mac, Windows, and Linux

When you create applications for Silverlight you’re actually creating one application that will run equally on Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari on Windows, Mac and Linux. Silverlight on different platforms and browsers has exactly the same functionality, ensuring the same experience for all your users. Microsoft is working with Novell to offer Silverlight support for the Linux platform. The Mono Project is an open-source initiative hosted at http://www.mono-project.com/Moonlight. This is available for all major Linux distributions. Moonlight 2.0 supports C# and other Dynamic Languages, and includes controls, layout and media.

Millions of skilled developers to help you

Tap into the talent pool of six million .NET developers to find the expertise you need. A vibrant ecosystem means it’s easy to find partners and pre-built components.

Seamless Designer-Developer workflow

Accelerate time to market as designers collaborate with developers using the integration between Expression Studio’s creative tools and the Visual Studio family of development tools.

Talk to anyone building interactive applications, and they will tell you about the promise and the frustration of user experience design. Concepts that look great in photo editing tools rarely lend themselves well to actual implementation, while tools that mash together designer and developer disciplines often fall short. In organizations lucky enough to have dedicated designers, they are often forced to spend more time on programming than on actual design. While the integration of developer and designer disciplines is increasing, it is hardly the norm. This is why Microsoft® Expression® Studio was created.

Whether developing applications for the desktop or the Web, the Expression products will allow designers to fully engage with developers to finally bridge the gap in the designer/developer workflow. This will bring together the best minds in design and development to create applications and sites with a focus on great User Experience (UX).

Expression Blend shares project format, XAML, and .NET development with Visual Studio for Designer-Developer workflow; and has added support for Silverlight. This means that the designer can work on the same project as the developer, and thus requires no re-writing of code or use of exporters or clunky add-ins. It also means that developer practices can be applied to the UI mark-up, such as diff’ing and source control.

Monetize your assets

Silverlight offers a choice of content protection techniques for subscriptions: End-user authentication, SSL, Web playlists, Silverlight DRM, and Windows Media DRM.

With the explosive growth in streaming online video and rich internet experiences, it’s critical to ensure your content and your business models are secure. The new peaks in online video audiences not only create a great opportunity to explore new revenue opportunities, but to also expose the challenges in managing and protecting valuable media assets. A variety of content protection schemes, including Digital Rights Management (DRM); end-user authentication and authorization; Web Playlists; and SSL ensure that content owners can fully monetize and protect their media assets.

Silverlight DRM, Powered by PlayReady

Silverlight DRM, Powered by PlayReady is a content encryption technology designed and optimized to enable key Silverlight online content distribution scenarios including live streaming, on-demand streaming, progressive download, and adaptive streaming (e.g., IIS7 Smooth Streaming). Unlike simple stream or link encryption technologies (e.g., Adobe’s RTMP/e), Silverlight DRM, encrypts the video and audio in a secure wrapper ensuring content, including advertising, stays protected from server to Silverlight plug-in until it is decompressed during playback.

Silverlight DRM is a small, cross-platform version of the PlayReady client used exclusively by the Silverlight Web browser plug-in. Analogous to other online content services, a Silverlight service that offers protected content uses the PlayReady Server SDK (or alternatively, the WM Rights Manager 10.1 SDK) to first package (encrypt) the Windows Media Audio (WMA) and Windows Media Video (WMV) content. When a consumer then wants to play that content a license is requested and obtained from a license acquisition server that uses the PlayReady Server SDK.

The Silverlight plug-in includes an individualized PlayReady client acquired from an online service, hosted by Microsoft. Individualization binds the run-time client to the computer on which the client was initially installed. Every end-user is given an individualized Playready component and different certified license keys. This significantly reduces the danger of global breaks. If a specific version of a PlayReady client becomes compromised, it can be barred from acquiring licenses for new digital media files unless the latest version of the PlayReady client is downloaded that is robust against the circumvention.

Compatible with Windows Media DRM 10

Silverlight DRM allows content owners to deliver their protected content using either legacy WMDRM10 or new PlayReady encryption. This enables content owners to deliver existing libraries of WMDRM10 content to Silverlight without having to re-encrypt anything and means that the same protected content can be played back in both Silverlight and Windows Media based-clients.

Third Party DRM Providers

With the extensibility and openness of Silverlight, third-parties are able to build content protection solutions, extending customer choice and opening up infrastructure options.

SKY player in Silverlight using Silverlight DRM, Powered by PlayReady

Advertising

Silverlight, approved by the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB), supports all leading advertising scenarios, including linear pre-rolls, post-rolls, interstitials as well as non-linear tickers, bugs and transparent overlays.

As the market for online advertising continues to grow, the technology powering rich media-based ads needs to be up for the challenge. Complex business needs and creative capabilities demand more than simple animation and basic tagging – which is where Silverlight comes in. Silverlight enables lightning-fast development through familiar markup and controls based on XML that, combined with integrated productivity tools such as Expression Studio and Visual Studio, helps designers and developers work better together and push the limits of interactive innovation.

When designers and developers work together to bring advertising ideas to life, campaigns can be more nimble, more powerful and more effective. Silverlight enables agencies and advertisers to create, launch, measure, and quickly respond to online advertising campaigns through powerful controls and fully integrated tools.

Benefits of Silverlight for Rich Media and In-stream Advertising

• User Engagement
  Silverlight powers the most compelling media experiences on the Web for rich media and in-stream advertising, offering the most effective engagement and conversion opportunities for advertisers
• Discoverability
  Silverlight is the most discoverable rich media ad platform with superior SEO capabilities
• Analytics
  Silverlight supports robust and complex online advertising reporting and analytics to enable effective campaign response and measurement

Online campaigns created with Silverlight can be more engaging, discoverable, and accountable than with other technologies

Lower delivery costs

Leverage existing HTTP infrastructure and improve delivery over proprietary streaming servers. Use multicast for Intranet-based executive broadcasts and online training.

Windows Server helps content providers realize new levels of reliability and scalability, all with lower-cost content delivery. Windows Server represents a significant competitive edge when delivering streaming media and/or applications cross-platform and cross-device, and is already in use by most major broadcasters around the world. Windows Server now powers HTTP-based adaptive streaming via Smooth Streaming.

Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0 Media Services

IIS Media Services is the new name (previously IIS Media Pack) for the media-relevant extensions for IIS. With IIS Media Services, Microsoft is offering an integrated media delivery platform for customers interested in delivering media over HTTP-based adaptive streaming, a new hybrid technique for content delivery. IIS Media Services provides an easy to deploy and manage set of capabilities for companies interested in taking advantage of the inherent scale and availability advantages that come with using standards-based HTTP as a media delivery protocol.

IIS Media Services provides the fundamental features of a proprietary streaming solution: bit rate throttling, secure playlists and logging capabilities that are required for cost effectively delivering, measuring and monetizing media content. On top of these basic media delivery features, IIS Media Services offers enhanced media delivery capabilities such as on-demand and live adaptive streaming (Smooth Streaming) which makes true HD (720p+) media experiences practical as well as real-time logging and analytics capabilities for measuring and maximizing return on your media investment.

Windows Media Services 2008

Windows Media Services, like all of Windows Server 2008, is significantly more secure, reliable, and robust — and it is already considered by many customers to be the best in the market for live and n-demand streaming delivery using “traditional” streaming. The latest improvements provide twice the scalability over Windows Media Services 9.0.

In addition to its proven scalability and reliability, Windows Media Services now supports a Server Core installation, enabling reduced footprints for fixed-function streaming server scenarios, offering embedded appliance-like performance. Additionally, a cache/proxy plug-in is built in, making it easier to configure WMS for edge network enterprise and Internet topologies. Many features of Windows Media Services that were previously available only on Windows Server Enterprise and Datacenter are now available on Windows Server Standard, and all Standard features are now also available on Windows Web Server 2008. This makes the power of Windows Media Services 2008 available to a broader set of users at a lower cost.

Multicast Support for Silverlight

Windows Media Services, together with Silverlight and a third-party open-source plug-in from QUMU, can support multicast-enabled scenarios for executive broadcasts and training scenarios behind the firewall.

This is now a complete media platform for synchronized content from Internet (MRSS, iTunes) as well as private sources with our integration Cloud support out of the box for Amazon S3.

Here is one of the framework generated experiences (you can do your own but not in this demo) which transforms the Apple Movie Trailers content:

Or click here to go direct:

http://media.tangentux.com/index.htm

Adobe has no reason to ignore Silverlight now…They do that at their own peril and eventual harm.

We will have a free version of this media center environment (yes indeed it is a lot like Windows Media Center, only completely built for Internet content). The demo above shows off some Deep Zoom integration, as well as some intelligent playback optimized for quality over M4v, MP4, and associated file types.

There is also a large demo with tons of smooth streaming content. Let me know if your interested.

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Las Vegas, NV – April 20th, 2009 – BuyDRM, a Microsoft-licensed PlayReady DRM solutions and service provider, will unveil the world’s first Microsoft Internet Information Services 7.0 (IIS) Live Smooth Streaming content protection solution built on Microsoft Silverlight DRM, powered by PlayReady at the NAB conference on April 20, 2009. In a joint demonstration with Envivio, Inc., BuyDRM’s KeyOS rights management platform will provide Silverlight DRM support to the 4Caster C4 compression engine during NAB in booth #SL720.

IIS Smooth Streaming is Microsoft Corp.’s HTTP-based adaptive streaming solution that takes advantage of the Web’s existing HTTP infrastructure to bring superior performance and scalability to media experiences. With IIS Smooth Streaming, consumers get minimal buffering and faster start-up times, because IIS Smooth Streaming adapts the quality of the video stream in real-time, based upon the consumer’s changing bandwidth and CPU conditions.

“BuyDRM’s integration of PlayReady into its KeyOS solution enables strong protection, flexibility and control for content providers utilizing Silverlight for their offerings,” said Steve Sklepowich, group product manager for Silverlight Media at Microsoft. “BuyDRM’s offerings and Silverlight create new opportunities for content providers to monetize their content in a variety of models.”

“We are pleased to be the first to offer a live rights management solution that fully integrates Microsoft Silverlight DRM and IIS Smooth Streaming technologies,” said Christopher Levy, CEO and Founder, BuyDRM. “BuyDRM pioneered the use of Silverlight DRM technology for live and on-demand content. KeyOS provides the entire Silverlight DRM ecosystem including live and on-demand Windows Media and Smooth Streaming-format encryption, licensing and profile management, license delivery, geo-targeting and real-time statistics and reports, which will enable a broader array of media distribution opportunities.”

About BuyDRM:

BuyDRM, a division of Austin, Texas based NFA Group Inc., was founded in 2001 by Christopher Levy to meet the needs of the rapidly expanding pay media industry. Its flagship product KeyOS is both a service and solution, representing extensive research, development and practical use in deploying commercial digital rights management technologies. BuyDRM is a preeminent provider of Microsoft Silverlight DRM technology and a featured Microsoft partner, with more than 200 customers in the entertainment, enterprise and education industries. KeyOS was chosen by Streaming Media Magazine’s viewers back-to-back for the Reader’s Choice Award in 2007 and 2008

Contact:

BuyDRM – Media Relations
Jessica Sinn
Jessica@buydrm.com

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Monday, April 20 2009 – By: slteam

This past month has been whirl wind to say the least! I’m so excited and amazed to see the support of our customers and partners on the blogoshere congratulating us on the advancements we’ve made within Silverlight 3 at MIX last month. We’ve made big leaps in video support by raising the bar for high-def consumer media experiences.

Highlights include: live and on-demand adaptive streaming (with IIS Smooth Streaming) including PVR-like functionality for pausing and seeking live feeds, better format support (including native H.264), a media pipeline that lets you plug in other third-party codecs, and GPU acceleration which improves full-screen “true” HD (1080p) playback. For a recap of all the goodness in media from MIX09, see Alex Zambelli’s blog post and Ben Waggoner’s blog post. Both provide great summaries with pointers to other resources and third-party press releases, including those from Akamai, Inlet HD and others.

At NAB this week in Las Vegas, we continue to make rapid advancements in media. With over 100k attendees expected, NAB is the 2^nd largest trade show in the country, and the biggest gathering for media and video professionals in the world.

Today at NAB, Microsoft is announcing the availability of IIS Smooth Streaming. Smooth Streaming is a feature of Internet Information Services (IIS) Media Services, our HTTP–based Web server platform for delivering, monetizing and caching media. You can check out the amazing quality you get today from Smooth Streaming by visiting the IIS MS site.  You can get started today with on-demand Smooth Streaming, and expect our final release for Live Smooth Streaming in the very near future.

We also have broad industry adoption for Smooth Streaming, with both top customers and media ecosystem partners.  Key early adopter customers for Smooth Streaming include online retailers and broadcasters such as HSN, NBCOlympics.com, RAI, TV2, CTV and others. They will be able to deliver true 1080p experiences – early testing has shown that engagement times far exceed those using other non-adaptive streaming platforms, so the upside for content monetization is very encouraging. Stay tuned for more info here on our findings!

In addition to customer adoption, we have been working hard with the third-party ecosystem, across encoding ISVs, Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) and DRM ASPs to ensure seamless work flow for protected and advertising-based content. Here are the partners announcing their support for Smooth Streaming today at NAB:

• CDNs-  Akamai, AT&T, CDNetworks, Internap, Level3, and Limelight
• Encoding ISVs- Digital Rapids, Envivio, Grab Networks (Anystream), Rhozet, Telestream, Vbrick, ViewCast, Winnov
• DRM ASPs- BuyDRM, CDNetworks, Entriq, ExtendMedia, Ipercast, iStreamPlanet

See our NAB press release for all the details.

In addition to all the great customer showcases we now have with Silverlight, here are two very cool demos to check out at NAB in our booth:

1. Live Smooth Streaming Encoding demo featuring Akamai’s AdaptiveEdge for Silverlight together with the Inlet HD encoding platform.
2. Protected Live Smooth Streaming using Silverlight DRM, Powered by PlayReady. Envivio worked with BuyDRM to make this happen.

Look forward to meeting you at NAB. Booth SL 720!

Steve

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9 our of 10 studies prove: Resharper make your your hair grow back, your dog come home (yes even if he died), your wife will love you again and your kids will listen to you.

OK perhaps it is not a country music song played backwards.

BUT your nuts to even think about wasting all that time not using it. For someone who knows it is people not tools that always win, this is my only exception in 20 years that I will stand behind.

Why stare at a keyboard for hours wondering how to navigate a nasty tangled refactoring you know you must do when you can do the right thing AND make the 5:30 train.

Me? I hit the shift-ctrl-space repeatedly and am shocked when nothing happens. Then I install it and life is good again.

ReSharper 4.5 Released

April 8, 2009

In This Issue

Introduction
Performance and Memory Usage Improvements
Solution-Wide Code Inspections

VB9 Support
Extended Naming Style Configuration
Other Enhancements

Introduction

ReSharper 4.5 is finally out, so your next productivity upgrade is just a mouse click away!

As announced, the new version features major improvements in performance and memory usage. After all, what is a productivity tool for if not for being agile, robust and responsive?

In addition to focusing on performance enhancements, we also added a number of intelligence features and improvements.

We’ve prepared a short Flash movie to introduce the new features in ReSharper 4.5. Get the hang of things in just a few minutes!

For users of older versions we have a ReSharper 3.0 vs. ReSharper 4.5 Comparison matrix.

However, if you believe a thousand words say more than a picture does, or even a movie, go ahead and read the descriptions below :)

Alex Morozov
NET product marketing manager 
JetBrains

Performance and Memory Usage Improvements

We have managed to make ReSharper load and work faster and more smoothly in general, particularly on big (and we mean BIG) solutions:

• Wall-time measurements of solution loading show 20 to 40 percent acceleration until the solution is ready for code editing.
• Web site loading time has also been reduced by a third.
• For instance, a certain mixed-language solution consisting of about 15 thousand classes now takes only 70 seconds to load, and this includes making every ReSharper feature available.

The list of significantly accelerated operations includes:

• renaming symbols
• finding commonly used symbols
• creating symbols from usage
• analyzing large XAML files.

We’ve also cut down the volume of memory resources required to analyze jumbo autogenerated code files, which should especially benefit those who work with ASP.NET and LINQ to SQL.

Solution-Wide Code Inspections

To enable you to detect unused non-private members on the fly, we have enlisted the help of our ever-improving solution-wide analysis. We have introduced a set of specialized code inspections that only work when you let ReSharper analyze your whole solution. They help you discover:

• Unused non-private declarations
• Unused return values of non-private methods
• Unaccessed non-private fields
• Unused parameters in non-private members
• Abstract or virtual events that are never invoked
• Unassigned fields
• Members and types that can be made internal instead of public

Look for these inspections in your code and on the Marker Bar, highlighted as warnings or suggestions. In addition, new code annotations are available that you can use to mark certain unused non-private types and members to prevent ReSharper from fussing about them.

VB9 Support – We can forgive this transgression (Damon)

Visual Basic .NET developers can now benefit from VB9 language support that includes implicitly typed local variables, object initializers, anonymous types, extension methods, lambda expressions, partial methods, and embedded XML. VB9 support is all around you, courtesy of new context actions, code completion, refactorings, and Parameter Info, among other supporting features.

Extended Naming Style Configuration

Now you can define custom naming style settings for different languages and symbols including:

• types
• namespaces
• interfaces
• parameters
• method properties and events
• static and instance fields, etc.

For every kind of symbol, you can configure one of five casing options, prefixes and suffixes, variations for different access rights, abbreviations to preserve, or enable naming inspections. As a result, you can precisely align the way ReSharper completes and generates code with your specific coding guidelines.

Other Enhancements

• Go to Implementation – This new navigation feature lets you jump from usage of a base type or member to any of its end implementations, bypassing intermediate steps in the inheritance chain.
• New and Improved Refactorings – ReSharper 4.5 has added Inline Field to its family of Inline refactorings. Rename refactoring now provides name completion, and some of the other refactorings were thoroughly refactored themselves, to make them perform faster.
• Native MSTest Support – Initially available through VstsUnit Plugin and then Gallio, MSTest support has finally made its way to being provided natively in ReSharper, on par with nUnit.
• Wider Cross-Language Capabilities – Quick-fixes and context actions work better in many cross-language scenarios: for example, you can extend a control written in VB.NET+XAML by choosing "create from usage" right from a C# usage. Add increased coverage for XAML and ASP.NET, and you get a substantial package of improvements.
• Smoother Language and Framework Support – Following the tradition of ReSharper 4.1, we have improved compatibility with F#, Compact Framework, Silverlight 2, and other languages and tools.

Grab your all-new productivity – download ReSharper 4.5 now at http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/download.

ReSharper 4.5 is provided as a free upgrade from ReSharper 4.0. If you own an older version, please contact us to check your upgrade availability at sales@jetbrains.com.

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That MS SQL Certification is hard to let go I realize but is it worth acting like Sisyphus for? I have more interesting things to do and I KNOW your stakeholders are not cool with you wasting their money.

I simply mean you can think, talk, brainstorm etc. with your ‘domain experts’ without the silly attempt to handle two different systems (Relational and OO) of thought. You all share one. And you should know it. It’s called object oriented.

Anyway… Enough pithiness (is that a word?)…

The always astoundingly good Ayende (Oren) is getting ready to release one of the most compelling software tools for people wasting far less and ‘for free’ gaining far higher quality by using NHibernate.

I expect it will be a fantastic tool to use in trying to work with teams desperately clutching their ADO.NET books….

This is all his content from here out:

NH Prof has reached the level in which I can actually talk about the features that it has in more than abstract terms. There is still a big feature area that I want to cover (which should be a nice surprise), but the basics are there, and today I had ample proof that it is maturing just nicely. I was able to deal with quite a few of the remaining tasks by applying check listing. Basically, to do X, I had to do A,B & C. Trivially simple, and quite satisfying.

Test coverage went back up to over 90% on the backend again, which is also nice.

Anyway, let us start with the tour, shall we?

The left upper pane shows the captured sessions. You can see the number of statements per each session, as well as the length time it was open.  Let us move down a bit, and explore statistics.

The session factory statistics pane include a lot of information about NHibernate, which can give you a good indication about what is going on in the application in a global fashion. In 2.0 we have quite a few data points, but the statistics feature was significantly expanded in 2.1, and contains a lot more data and more finely grained statistics.

But that is probably not what gets you excited. What is likely to thrill you are the statement view.

I put a lot of though into designing those (well, into thinking about them, the actual design was handled by people who actually know what they are doing, design wise). The upper section of the screen is optimized to allow the human eye to quickly scan it in order to find all sorts of interesting patterns. Compare this to SQL Profiler UI, and you can see why I think that this is a much better version, just from that stand point.

The bottom half, however, is what I really like. This is the part I use the most often, in order to really see what is going on. I did an ad-hoc demo of the profiler in Dallas, and one of the things that cam out of this was the format that you see on the lower pane. This UI is set to allow you to just copy the query from the profiler and immediately execute a readable, easy to understand query on Management Studio or Toad. Again, another piece where I think that I providing a lot more value than SQL Profiler does.

For quick reference, we put the parameter values on the left of the query, so you can inspect them without having to go into a potentially complex queries to try to figure out what is what.

But this isn’t where it ends, let us take a look at the stack trace tab:

The stack trace will let you correlate a query and the code that generated it, and not only that, it will take you directly from the query to the code (opening visual studio, loading the file and landing you directly in the place in the code that caused this query to be executed.

Oh, and one more thing…

I have over four years of experience working with NHibernate, a time during which I learned quite a bit about what work, what doesn’t and what kind of things we should be aware off. The profiler has given me the chance to codify a lot of these patterns, and put them in a way that allow you to have apply early detection and prevention mechanisms.

And one last thing, this time it will really be the last. Session / Entity inspection:

You can see exactly what are the entities that were loaded by this session, including counts per entity and all the ids that were loaded.

I hope to be able to open it for beta testing in two to three weeks, and a 1.0 release about a month after that. Pricing is tentatively set at 200$ per user, but this is subject to change.

http://ayende.com/Blog/archive/2008/11/04/nh-prof-a-guided-tour.aspx

Amazing stuff……Buy this from Oren!

The new Architecture Explorer enables individuals to create a visual representation of existing code assets.

From MSDN (with added commentary….)

Modeling that Works with Code

For most businesses only about 20% of the code being written today is for new applications;

(DDN: Not true 100% however that is about right for budgets which is likely what they meant anyway).

the majority of work is being done on existing code bases. A typical issue encountered when working on existing code is not having good tools to help the architect or developer understand the system.

(DDN: Uh.. How about no regression tests? How about no mandate for reuse, framework API quality, etc. etc.? Sure lets not talk about the why, just the ways we can profit from it)

This can make it challenging to not only understand what needs to be done to make the required changes, but it makes it equally challenging to understand the broader impact of the changes. Often it isn’t until much later that an unexpected bug is discovered as a result of a change.

Our modeling tools have tight integration into the actual code of the application. This means that a developer or architect can use models to explore existing code assets.

Ugh.. Rational Round Trip UML nightmare but this should be part of your world at a minimum from code to view.

The new Architecture Explorer in Visual Studio Team System gives developers and architects the capability of creating a full architectural picture of existing code; understanding how they fit together; understanding how they “work.” This leads to better information about how to use, re-use, or even whether or not to discard existing code. The Architecture Explorer provides architects and developers a mechanism for visualizing code assets in a number of ways including graphs, stacked diagrams and dependency matrices.

DDN: OK now I am officially getting scared… I can see all the developers saying ‘look ma! I’m an architect!’

The introduction of the Architecture Layer Diagram means that a developer or architect can use models to enforce constraints on code as well. The Architecture Layer Diagram can be coupled to code making it an active diagram that can be used for validation.

For example, when an architect designs a system where the presentation layer should not talk to the data layer, you want to be able to enforce that model at check-in.

DDN: Oh my god was that last sentence serious? As if that would be a real interesting case?

VSTS 2010 can do that. These capabilities delivered in VSTS 2010 are part of the Microsoft’s overall modeling story.

Learn more about modeling by watching the Trends in Software Modeling webcast featuring Jeffrey Hammond (Forrester Research), Cameron Skinner (Microsoft, Visual Studio Team System), and Clemens Reijnen (Sogeti).

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NHibernate 2.0 went gold yesterday and is available for download from here.

This is official release 2.0.0 GA. Please ensure you review this list of breaking changes from the release notes (also main items briefly listed below).

NOTE: Correction/clarification made 8/26 on Linq to NHibernate location.

The much anticipated Linq to NHibernate is available for now only via the NHibernate Contrib project and is not included in this NHibernate release.

Although likely to change, there does not appear to be an installer for Linq to NHibernate so it must be accessed from the source code. To gain access to this, you will need a subversion client such as Tortoise, and then download the code.

To download ‘Linq to NHibernate’ from the Trunk go here

The location of the bits can be found under the repository at this location:

http://nhcontrib.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/nhcontrib/trunk/src/NHibernate.Linq/
NOTE: Pictures Below Generated from NDepend, a must-have tool for .NET Development

gold release 2.0.0.GA

BREAKING CHANGES from NH1.2.1GA to NH2.0.0

• Infrastructure

  • .NET 1.1 is no longer supported
  • Nullables.NHibernate is no longer supported (use nullable types of .NET 2.0)
  • Contrib moved. New Location

NDepend Analysis

• • • http://sourceforge.net/projects/nhcontrib

• Compile time

  • NHibernate.Expression namespace was renamed to NHibernate.Criterion
  • IInterceptor have additional methods. (IsUnsaved was renamed IsTransient)
  • INamingStrategy
  • IType
  • IEntityPersister
  • IVersionType
  • IBatcher
  • IUserCollectionType
  • IEnhancedUserType
  • IPropertyAccessor
  • ValueTypeType renamed to PrimitiveType

• Possible Breaking Changes for external frameworks

• Various classes were moved between namespaces
• Various classes have been renamed (to match Hibernate 3.2 names)
• ISession interface have additional methods
• ICacheProvider
• ICriterion
• CriteriaQueryTranslator

• <nhibernate> section, in App.config, is no longer supported and will be ignored. Configuration schema for configuration file and App.config is now identical, and the App.config section name is: <hibernate-configuration>
• <hibernate-configuration> have a different schema and all properties names are cheked
• configuration properties are no longer prefixed by “hibernate.”, if before you would specify “hibernate.dialect”, now you specify just “dialect”
• All named queries will be validated at initialization time, an exception will be thrown if any is not valid (can be disabled if needed)
• Stricter checks for proxying classes (all public methods must be virtual)

• <any> : default meta-type is “string” (was “class”)

Stumble It!

On the heels of their 4.0 release which is arguably their most strategic in the .NET world to date, JetBrains continues to innovate with this beta.

Click here to download the new EAP post 4.0 release of 4.01 (a maintenance focused release).

Please participate by providing your experiences to JetBrains so they can evolve this work into another solid must have upgrade.

We’re using this release with great success (however we do not use the VB.NET aspects so no comment there).

Also make sure to check out the add-ins for 4.0 here.

Microsoft’s Strategy is Clear for gaining Developer Mindshare now : Is this a good or bad series of actions for those of us dedicated to minimizing compromise like our counterparts in other frameworks take for granted?

In a strategic move on Microsoft’s part that has the open source community buzzing, the well-known and respected founder of the Castle Project Hamilton Verissimo has accepted a position with Microsoft’s MEF group.

Hamilton Chillin’ Castle Style

This has been a hot topic of discussion today in the open source community as Castle is one of the pioneers in ultra high-quality core architectural open source stack services in the .NET world. For a long time they were the only reasonable option for many key practices other frameworks took for granted.

For a full discussion of all dimensions of the Castle Project watch for an upcoming story where we cover each component in a logical and in-depth manner.

They have maintained a dominant position and we believe that will continue as Hamilton has an incredibly capable team that shares his intensity, passion and love of the technology.

It now is obvious (and has been for some time) that Microsoft is taking a logical approach to counter the increasing encroachment into the mindshare of their core development base. All of the Nx variants (NUnit, NHibernate, NMock, etc.) still have a large upper hand however.

This raises an interesting point for the strategist. Castle is a very solid choice for Inversion of Control/D.I. aspects as well as many others. Until now Unity (their reasonably close offering but in this writers opinion not close enough) has been lackluster. I do not believe Hamilton will be involve in any IoC related work at Microsoft as that is clearly in the Patterns and Practices camp for now. Time will tell. Here is the formal statement which is music to our ears:

What happens to Castle?

That was a delicate subject to me, but surprisingly it wasn’t a problem to them. I got a written permission to keep working on Castle as much as I want. So nothing changes…

By hiring the world’s best talent, building first generation competitors to the core mainstays such as NHibernate, and retooling their image to embrace some of the ALT.NET philosophy one has to wonder if they are building a ReSharper killer in some obscure building on campus (very, very doubtful).

The obvious questions are addressed below and for the complete list view his blog at:

http://hammett.castleproject.org/?p=312

Why?

Many reasons. First of all, meeting Scott Guthrie and talking to Brad Abrams made me realize those guys are just as fanatics about technology as I am. They want to create things that rocks, and so do I.

What are you going to do there?

If you have listened this podcast you know what the community expects from MS. I like to think I’m joining to help solve the problems pointed there.

Formally I’m joining as a Program Manager on the MEF team. I would love (and expect) to participate in several fronts, though, as any member on the DevDiv.

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