Johnny Halife’s Blog

DinnerNow.net v1.3 was published and also there's an Orcas version showing the enhancements to WCF+WF , Syndication, Linq, among other Orcas features.

What's new on DinnerNow.net?

• New Service Portfolio. The DinnerNow.net services had been completely re written. This new solution consists on: Service Interfaces, Data Access, Workflow, and Business Logic.
• Unit Testing. The new service portfolio includes the Unit Test for it's components.
• Documentation. Now the Service Portfolio includes ///XML documentation, and we're shipping with a CHM file generated with SandCastle.
• Mobile Application. The delivery application had been completely rewritten using Windows Mobile 6.0 Professional SDK. This application completes the Order Delivery workflow.
• New demo walkthrought. Demo documentation was been updated including the Mobile Application information.
• Improved setup. The C:\DinnerNow is no longer mandatory, now you can install DinnerNow.net sample application wherever you want.

The v1.3 version is based on Microsoft .net Framework 3.0 and it has been tested on Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 (Longhorn Server Beta 3).

DinnerNow.net Orcas version

In addition to v1.3, we're also releasing a version of DinnerNow.net that has been developed using Visual Studio “Orcas” and the .NET Framework 3.5 beta 1. This version takes advantage Orcas features like:

• Linq. Data Access layer has been re written using Language Integrated Query for .net and LINQ-TO-SQL.
• Silver. On the service portfolio we got rid of plumbing code used on v1.3 with the new Workflow Services feature of Orcas.
• Syndication. We implemented the RSS Services using the WCF Syndication capabilities.

The Orcas version of DinnerNow.net has a couple of known issues, so please review the Known Issues document

Besides DinnerNow.net sample application we're releasing five new hands-on-labs for Orcas beta 1. The labs are based on DinnerNow.net sample application, but you do *NOT* need to download and install DinnerNow.net sample application in order to use them.

So, what are you waiting for get the bits now! And visit our codeplex community site in order to get the hands-on-lab.

thanks,
~johnny