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Server-side Excel: changing the face of financial apps?

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...

Indigo presentation for VBUG London

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...

XSD Custom Build Provider causes strong bodily reaction

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 ...

The fastest transport isn't always the best choice

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...

Where's Benjamin been?

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...

What port does WSE default to with soap.tcp://localhost?

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 ...

Free Community-driven Developer Day on Sat May 14

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...

Back from the Indigo SDR

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 ...

WSE 2.0 Item Templates for Visual Studio .NET 2003

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...

Why WSE article published on MSDN.

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...

WSE Policy Advisor

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...

WSE 3.0 to include MTOM

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...

Develop .NET Web Services Contract First with Christian Weyer's WSCF VS Add In

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...

MSDN UK Web Services Event: Why isn't UDDI called 'uddy'?

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...

VBUG Service Orientation Presentation Notes

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 ...

MSDN UK Web Services Event: Why isn't UDDI called 'uddy'

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 ...

Understanding Web Services, MSDN Event London, Nov 30

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...

Running ASMX without IIS

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 on scope URIs for WSE UsernameToken passwords

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...

David Chappell on why SOA will help business-oriented software reuse

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...

Joel Spolsky: Indigo won't enable a new class of applications

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...

How to send attachments with Web Services today

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...

Adopting Indigo

Stu Charlton writes about ‘Microsoft, Service and Patents’ concluding that: Even if Indigo is the all singing, all danci...

IUnknown features in the WS-Transfer specification

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...

Free Developer Security Day with Steve Balmer Keynote

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...

Indigo to ship in 2006

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...

WS-* as a design checklist

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...

Hosting WSE's SoapReceiver within an EnterpriseServices component

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...

How to use WS-SecureCovenversation in a server farm

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...

WSE Messaging Webcast - Demos + Links

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 ...

Top Ten Tips for Web Services Interoperability

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...

MSDN Webcast - WSE 2.0 Messaging - Mon 9 Aug 1PM EST

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...

The three levels of WSE Messaging

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....

CTS308: Clemens on Building Proseware - a Non-Trivial Service-Oriented System

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...

GNLARC: Pat Helland and Band sing 'Mr CIO Guy'

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' - ...

EBZ213: David Chappell on services, business processes and BizTalk 2004

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...

TechEd Europe: BoF Sessions

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 ...

Pipelines, Policy and Aspects

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 ...

MSDN TV: WSE 2.0 Security

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...

Talking about WSE 2.0 on .NET Rocks! tonight

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...

WSE 2.0 Web service security in a real-world scenario

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...

Blog coverage of my CTS302: WSE 2.0 Security session

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...

WSE 2.0 Policy and Config: Powering 'no code' web service security solutions

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...

WSE 2.0 generated policy and derived keys

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...

CTS302: WSE 2.0 and Security repeating tomorrow

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...

Questions from Don and Doug's Service Orientation presentation

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...

Tracing with WSE 2.0

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...

Steve Ballmer Keynote

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...

How do you spot WS-* Geeks at the airport?

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's WS-Interop Day Keynote

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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