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I'm currently pondering whether the new server-side capability of Excel 2007 could
radically change the face of many financial application. Excel is so widely
used in finance that m...
I did a presentation on Indigo to the VBUG
London group last night. The turn out was pretty good, although it was obvious
that many English football fans were missing (though they p...
Strong bodily reactions are a great way to measure the impact of new technologies.
While many US technical conferencecrowds like clapping when they see new features
demoed, I think ...
Kirk Allen Evans has an
interesting post about proposing adistributed architecture for a client where
he finds, after doing performance testing, that the speed difference between di...
It's been a long time since I last posted. I've been busy with a mix of presentations,
work and life, such as:
Helping Kalido ship version
8 release 2of their two core products, the Kalido Dynamic I...
I'm on the Ask The Experts stand here at TechEd (back tomorrow andWednesday
at 2pm)and the first person I spoke to today asked me how to solve a socket
access permission when using awhen using a tcp ...
Ifyou like afree day of training on Microsoft technologies presented directly
by developers with experience using technologies then sign
up for the DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper day t...
I've just landed back in the UK after a three-week round the world holiday to Australia
and back via Redmond for theIndigo
Software Design Review (SDR) last week. The SDR gave me a ...
Kirk Allen Evans has put up a set
of Visual Studio .NET Item Templatesthat make it easier to create WSE SoapClient
or SoapReceiver classesincluding removing the grunt work of adding a reference
to the...
As Rebecca Dias
mentions, my article (""Why
WSE"")covering the high-level reasons to use WS-Security has been published
on MSDN. It covers theprovides benefits WSE provide...
Microsoft Research in Cambridge have released the WSE
Policy Advisor for Microsoft Web Services Enhancements (WSE) 2.0. The Policy
Advisor is an an unsupported tool that acts...
Mark Fussell, the WSE Program Manager posts
that since the MTOM
specification has moved to a full recommendation it means that it
can be implemented in WSE 3.0. This is great as it m...
Hats
off to Christian Weyer for creating his WSCF 'Web
Services Contract First' tool to help provide Visual Studio tool support
for building web services by starting w...
The ‘Understanding
Web Services’ MSDN event back in November went very well.
It was great to see over 200 people who were interested enough to spend a day
learning about web services...
Since
I make a habit out of blogging conference talks I thought that I should try doing
my own talk “Service Orientation Today” from the VBUG
10th Annual Conference last ...
The ‘Understanding
Web Services’ MSDN event back in November went very well.
It was great to see over 200 people who were interested enough to spend a day
learning ...
I'm going to be presenting 'Using Web Services Enhancements 2.0 for Messaging' at the London MSDN 'Understanding Web Services' event next Tues 30 Nov. David
Gristwood has more details about the e...
In
his latest
Service Station column, Aaron
Skonnard writes about how to use the HttpListener class which comes with Whidbey
which allows code running o...
John Lam, together with Dominic
Baier, shows how to implementa
hex encoded SHA1 hash of apassword plus ascope URI, as suggested
by Keith Brown an improvement over WSE's default password handling for U...
In a recent Opinari email (I can't find it on his website), David
Chappell defends his belief reuse is one the fundamental benefits of Service-Oriented
Architecture and that SOA will be more successf...
In an interview
with Mary Joe Foley, Joel Spolsky says that Indigo will make building applications
easier, but it won't lead to a whole new class of applications.
If you look at the different aspect...
Recently
someone asked me what is the best way of sending a file to a webservice, given that
we know that MTOM is the way forward and Soap
with Attachments (SwA) and WS-Attachments/D...
Stu
Charlton writes about ‘Microsoft,
Service and Patents’ concluding that:
Even
if Indigo is the all singing, all danci...
I was suprised to see COM's IUknown interface makes an appearance in the WS-Transfer
specification. If you look at the second example theWS-Addressing
MessageID is 00000000-0000-0000-C000-00000000004...
As David
Gristwood and Mike
Shaw note, on October 4 in
London
there’s a
free Microsoft Technical Briefing Day with sessions on IT security with St...
Microsoft
announced on Friday that Indigo is all set to ship in 2006, with the planned support
for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. This is great news. With
Whidb...
Gregor
Hohpe weighs in on the WS-AlphabetSoup
debate with a
new ‘ramble’ that provides some guidance on how to approach the WS-* standards.
He recommen...
Christian
Weyer shows how to host WSE’s SoapReceiver within EnterpriseServices.
This came up while we were watching Keith Ballinger do a code-driven presentation
on WSE m...
Chris
Keyser, a new blogger from the .NET Architecture Team, has started a series of posts on
the how to use WS-SecureConversation and the SecurityContextToken in a server farm
situa...
Here
are the code samples I used my webcast
on WSE Messaging last Monday. The
webcast will be available
for download from this link soon [update: it's available by clicking
...
Simon Guest lists his top
10 tips for web services interoperability between .NET and IBM WebSphere and BEA WebLogic[via Christian
Weyer who comments that things will points will go awaywit...
If you'd like to understand more about how to do messaging in WSEand would like
tosee the three levels
of messaging within WSE in action then why not register
for my first MSD...
To complement Simon
Horrell's MSDN article on messaging with WSE 2.0, I came across thisCodeProject article
by Roman
Kiss describing the three
levels of messaging within WSE 2....
Clemens' session on his ProseWare application at TechEd Amsterdam last week was one
of the best conference sessions I've seen. Proseware is
""an industrial-strength, robust,servic...
Pat Helland's just
finished a great presentation on services (a highly polished of the version he gave
at the PDC and in other locationsavailable
online). The highlight was him singing 'Mr CIO Guy' - ...
David Chappell presented abarn-storming
presentation based on the idea that the future is services, that services will be
called by business processes and that we need to look for a platform that will...
Here's the list of all of the Birds of a Feather presentations planned for TechEd
Europe. I'm going to be talking on "Service Orientation - what does it really
mean" next Thurs ...
After writing about how WSE 2.0 can use policy and config files to secure web services
with no lines of code, I was thinking about how 'magic' it seemed and had an aha!
moment when ...
John
Bristowe and I are featured on MSDN
TV enthusing about the launch of WSE 2.0. It was filmed in the Cabana areas
at TechEd 2.0. Here's the blurb:
Celebrating the launch of the Web Service Enhanc...
I'll be on .NET Rocks! tonight
talking about WSE 2.0 and buildingweb services with Microsoft technology today.
I'll be joined byfellow Regional
Director and Commonwealth Citiz...
my previous post, Mark Naughton asked an excellent question about how he'd apply WSE
2.0 security to a particular scenario. The answer highlights how to determine
which SecurityToken t...
My TechEd conference-buddy John Bristowe has
a blow-by-blow account of my CTS302
Securing Web Services with WSE 2.0session at Teched. Michael
Earls has some notes and a couple...
In the last
post I showed how it takes only 1 line of code to ensure that a web service client
signs all messages with a UsernameToken by
creating a send-side policy with the WSE 2.0 Security Setting...
While playing with the WSE Security Settings Wizard I discovered that the generatedpolicy
requires a DerivedKeyToken to be used to sign the
messages rather than the original securit...
As Rebecca Dias
notes, I'm repeating my CTS302:
Security Web Services with WSE 2.0 talk tomorrow at 12:15 in room 33ABC.
Yesterday's talk was so crowded that firemarshals...
Don Box and Doug Purdy did a 'keynote' for the Connected Systems Track. They
started out by asking what questions the audience wanted to see. A great set
of questionswere proposedan...
When developing with WSE it is often useful to be able to see what is going out on
the wire. Changes in the WSE 2.0 release mean that is no longer possible to
use tracing tools such...
I'm with all of the 'Blue Shirts', speakers and the Microsoft staff, in the keynote
overflow room, sharing the experience of watching Steve Ballmer on a video screen.
Here are some key points:
He's...
I flew into San Diego last night where Michele Leroux Bustamante had agreed to meet
me at the airport. The plane was an hour and a half late and I was wondering
if she'd still be there or even recogn...
Ted Neward gave the keynote
at our WS-Interoperability Day even today. Here are some of the points he made:
It's important to learn from the past, in terms
of previous distributed computing approaches...
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