Workflow/BPM/WCF/SOA

• David Chappell presents arguments both pro and con as to whether Microsoft qualifies as a BPM vendor. Personally, I think the answer is yes, especially when WF is intergrated into BizTalk 200x and other products.
• Nicholas Allan continues the excellent Indigo WCF posts with Controlling the Synchronization Process

LINQ and Family/CLR

• PLINQ, which I blogged about some time ago has surfaced again with this post from DonXML where he does some clever reading of Microsoft job posts! to make some educated speculations on the growing importance of Concurrency and Parallellism in the CLR as well as PLINQ. And yes, Don, "the cool kids [ALREADY] realize that WPF, WCF and WF are yesterday's news, and LINQ is where it is at ;)"
• Speaking of LINQ, see the XMLTeam blog for the announcement of the LINQ to XSD Preview and these links:
  • Here is the link to the LINQ to XSD download.
  • The LINQ to XSD overview document is available separately.
  • You also need the LINQ download (May 2006 CTP)
• Here is the link to the LINQ to XSD download.
• The LINQ to XSD overview document is available separately.
• You also need the LINQ download (May 2006 CTP)
• Also from Joe Duffy, see Vista SRWLock acquires during shutdown

Architecture

• Validation Application Block: Revealed! [via Mike]

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