Open Source SOA Projects

Udi Dahan’s .NET service bus project, NServiceBus, is now being hosted on SourceForge.

I thought a quick list of some open source projects I’m looking into might be in order:

Project	Description
NServiceBus	A service bus for the Microsoft space
Web Service Factory	A ‘Patterns & Practices’ tool to produce web services
WCF Robust File Transfer	A demonstration project demonstrating how to ‘chunk’ large files with WCF
WCF Activities for WF	Create WCF services with Windows Workflow
Managed Services Engine	WCF service virtualization

It is really interesting.. five years ago I didn’t even consider any open source in my day to day work.. these days customers are far more accepting of the idea.

Visual Studio DB Pro and the Build process

Maybe it is my background in SQL Server but I found Visual Studio for DB Professionals very nice to use.

When I had to incorporate it into my build process I didn’t find it very hard, except for having to install VSDB Pro on the build machine itself.

Well, there is a good article on the whole process here from the Microsoft’s Gert Drapers. If my project had been more deeply into databases than it was, I would have loved to get some differential builds and deployments out. 🙂

I get the impression that your average C# developer is not comfortable in the world of SQL, and probably doesn’t feel that a file called MyCode.sql has the same standing as a file called MyCode.cs. The article really goes into detail about how you can integrate your database scripts into your main development work.

I’m not yet an expert on LINQ, but from what I can tell it should remove some boundries between the worlds of databases and code.