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Archive for February 2008

Visual Studio 2008 Bug Upgrading web site from Visual Studio 2005: compiler error CS1519

I recently upgraded a website to Visual Studio 2008 from Visual Studio 2005 so I could make use of LINQ to SQL. Upon adding my table to a new .dbml file and rebuilding, I was met with this nasty compiler error:
LINQ to SQL compiler error CS1519: Invalid token ‘void’ in class, struct, or interface member [...]

Which will kill SOA fastest: no money or no skills?

Which will kill SOA fastest: no money or no skills? by ZDNet's Joe McKendrick — Double trouble for SOA in 2008?

Which one of the following will kill SOA projects faster this year?

Lack of money, or

Lack of skills?

Two separate articles out this week talk about double-trouble for SOA in 2008.

Anne Thomas Manes, analyst with Burton Group, [...]