Christian Weyer

Christian Weyer

Christian Weyer is co-founder of thinktecture (http://www.thinktecture.com/), a company that helps software architects and developers to build projects with .NET and distributed applications technologies. He is a recognized XML, Web services, and service-orientation expert. As a Microsoft MVP for Solution Architecture and one of the few independent Microsoft Regional Directors, he has made a name for himself in the developers and architects community. He has worked for many years with Microsoft technologies like COM/DCOM, COM+ and .NET. Christian has spoken at many well-known developer conferences and forums worldwide and is a published author, editor, and writer of numerous articles for various German and international technical magazines. Visit his Weblog at http://weblogs.asp.net/cweyer/ to find out more about Web services and service-oriented integration and programming, not just on the .NET platform.

Website: http://www.thinktecture.com/

Weblog: http://weblogs.asp.net/cweyer/

Articles Authored

  • Introducing Domain Specific Languages

    Last updated: Tuesday, February 19, 2019

    Published in: CODE Magazine: 2006 - July/August

    One of today’s new buzzwords in IT is Software Factories. This Microsoft initiative is likely to change the way that developers build software in the near future. The Software Factories initiative and vision doesn’t stand on its own, however. It’s initially supported by a set of new tools like Visual Studio 2005 Team System, the Guidance Automation Toolkit, and the DSL Tools. In this article, we will discuss Domain Specific Languages as they are one of the pillars of Software Factories. What is their role in Software Factories? How can they help you develop software? Is this just more hype or will Domain Specific Languages really change the way we build software in the not too far future? Let’s find out on the next pages.

  • Introducing Contract First

    Last updated: Tuesday, February 19, 2019

    Published in: CODE Magazine: 2005 - July/August

    So much of the literature about writing application now involves Web services.Many publications and blogs consider Web services to be the silver bullet because they are so easy to implement in .NET and do very easily interoperate with disconnected systems. But are people really using Web services the way they should be used? I beg to differ on that point.

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