New and Notable 235

Yesterday's big announcement was just a start. We have an even bigger one, hopefully today. Meanwhile, my Neudesic East team celebrated our big 1st year in the East by going to the Tropicana in Atlantic City. We had 36 people, gosh I remember when there were only 6 people.

WCF/ADFS/Federated Security

• Michele has been busy! She has created a proxy wrapper for WCF clients that illustrates how to swallow timeout exceptions and recreate channels automatically when there is an exception that faults the channel. This was the #1 WCF problem that Steve Eichert and I dealt with through two years of WCF at Algo.
• In a formerly internal thread, Michele talked about ADFS. Now she has made those results public with a Step By Step Guide for ADS FS - Errata Comments.
• Last, but not least, she has released a boatload of great code from her talks at DevConnections!
• Dr. Nick gathered up all the Messaging Additions in Orcas

CodeRush/Refactor Plus/Dev Tools

• Mark Miller has posted 16 tips for getting up to speed with CodeRush and Refactor! Pro