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Our good friends at Pluralsight wrote
some great whitepapers that introduce developers to .NET Services. They are
all available on the .NET Services MSDN Dev
Center. The best place to start is Aaron'...
Martin Heller posted a nice article about
the Azure Services Platform CTP's.
Martin did a good job talking about what pulls the platform together... it's a set
of loosely coupled services, that off...
Win7 has this super cool feature where you can boot from a VHD.
As part of their build process, the Windows team produces VHD's as well. Since
I work at Microsoft, I'm lucky enough to be able to pi...
Cliff, our stud WCF product manager,
just posteda Channel9 video where Aaron goes
through the process of creating a WCF service from scratch. The video is nice
in that it isn't just a typical "let's ...
Today, were proud to announce the availability of the gold bits of VS
2008 SP1 and .NET 3.5 SP1.
We think this is a great update to our VS2008 and 3.5 releases that is well worth
checking out.
I bl...
Today we released the betas for
VS2008 sp1 and .NET 3.5 sp1. Scott did
a good job (as usual :-)) running through the top-level enhancements, so I won't parrot
it all here.. but I'd like to go through...
SL2 beta1 adds a new packaging format for Silverlight apps - a .xap file. Silverlight
apps work fine in cassini (the ASP.NET development webserver), but trying to deploy
the web project to IIS result...
While I'm on migration, here are some pointers for stuff I had to do when migrating
my LINQ-to-SQL project from VS2008 Beta2 to RTM.
The DBML file was unreadable because the Beta2 version had an enc...
I got some time this weekend tostartmigrating mySL1.1 alpha app
to SL2 beta1. For starters, the SL 1.1 alpha project file contains reference
() to a project file that doesn't exist anymore - you get ...
The MySpace developer API's launched today.
Their API's are all RESTful, and they built them using WCF's REST features that we
just shipped in .NET 3.5. MySpace will be talking about
their experience...
Can SSL configuration be more arcane? A week ago I noticed that my Server cert
expired. I bought a new SBS cert via eNom (my domain name provider). SBS
posts easy enough directions on
their website f...
So far, it's been surprisingly easy to migrate my webserver and blog to IIS7 (from
which this blog entry is being served). I basically xcopied my inetpub/wwwroot
directory and granted r/w access to N...
In a recent blog post I
mentioned that SOAP and WS are catching on in the devices space. Last week,
somewhat serendipitously,Rob Williamsand friends from the Windows Devices
group came over and gave ...
I promised a blog entry on the role metadataplays in the interop issues our
customers are running into...
The role of metadata in a distributed system is fairly controversial and the subject
of som...
With WCF now supporting "REST"-style services, some bloggers have pronounced the death
of SOAP and WS-*. Wouldn't it be nice if we actually had that level of influence
:-) truth is we see alot of r...
Last week we posted beta1 of Visual Studio "Orcas", which turns out to be a big release
for the Connected Framework team. A few days ago we alsoposted a
"standalone" version of the corresponding ...
Check out our BPEL
activitiesCTP, delivered on top of the Windows Workflow Foundation framework.
BPEL is just another set of activities (parallel to the WF ones) that can be used
to implement BPEL-co...
Well, writing this up took longer than I thought :-) I guess I've been really
busy.
So, to implement the WCF-based RSS and Atom endpoints for dasBlog,I used the
new System.ServiceModel.Syndication n...
DasBlog has asmx-based syndication endpoints for RSS and Atom (at http://www.gazitt.com/blog/SyndicationService.asmx/GetRss and http://www.gazitt.com/blog/SyndicationService.asmx/GetAtom,
respectivel...
I fixed a few remaining issues today:
1. Cleaned
up the logon page: have nice icons now for Use an InfoCard along with a better layout
which I stole from Kevin Hammond;
also added a...
Over the break, I've been playing around with dasBlog. One of the projects I
undertook was to add support for InfoCards to dasBlog (this was before I knew about
Kevin Hammond's similar work).
I jus...
So, how does CardSpace add value to a site like, say, OhmBlog?
There are a few potential applications:
Authenticating as an admin with an InfoCard. This is a nice convenience because
I don't have to...
So how does one add InfoCard support to a web page? The first think you have
to do is add the CardSpace <object> tag to the page, adding some javascript
to call the object and get the tok...
So far, we've added the ability to log in using an InfoCard. But how does the
InfoCard get registered? Pretty simple: you add another <input> called
"Register InfoCard", and invok...
CardSpace only works over HTTPS sessions. So in order for that CardSpace dialog
to pop up, I needed to get an SSL cert for www.gazitt.com.
Fortunately, that wasn't too hard. My hoster (eNom) has a wo...
While implementing the email-based validation system for dasBlog, I ran across
the following page which
has information about public SMTP servers. The System.Net.Mail code that I wrote
to ...
A few folks (like Yaron)
have been grappling with the problem of how to deal with having two "encodings" for
their web services - XML and JSON. (Yes, I am using "web services" loosely - typi...
Kirill just sent me
code forhow to call the Amazon Simple Queue Service from WCF:
1. run svcutil on the SQS WSDL: http://queue.amazonaws.com/doc/2006-04-01/QueueService.wsdl
2. c...
Coming soon to an MSDN download page near
you... Aside from a handful of bug fixes that we deferred to the RTM milestone, you're
basically getting the final product. Time to Go Live! :)...
Guy Burstein wrote:
When
will RC1 be shipped?
As far as I understood, the majority of changes in this build are on the WF part.
So, should we really upgrade to June...
I usually don't quote other bloggers, but after reading Dare's
recent entry,
I couldn't resist...
Reach
is the Most Important Thing when Building Services on the Web
...
Check it out here.
This build is based on our "RC1" tree. It's not a final WCF RC1 build but it
incorporates all thefinal programming model tweaks that we made from the Beta2
...
A couple of weeks ago Iposted about
the "29,1" problem with the 4G iPod's and the Harman Kardon Drive+Play system.
I finally found a FAQ on the web
about this (it must be fa...
I've been "self-hosting" Vista on my VAIO S-480 notebooksince August 2005, and
let me tell you, the first few builds were pretty rough. But the quality has
been steadily increasin...
With the WinFX --> NetFX 3.0 name change, we also took the opportunity to consolidate
all the old WinFX community sites (windowscommunication.net, windowsworkflow.net)
into a new gl...
In the best tradition of last minute marketing
name changes, we just announced the following: WinFX --> .NET Framework (NetFX) 3.0
Infocard --> CardSpace While the feature is called CardSpace, t...
My, how fast the word travels.
Last week, we rolled out a CTP of two new "infrastructure" services hosted in the
Live cloud - a Relay and a Security Token Service.
Anyone who's ever built a P2P ...
I recently upgraded my iPod 4G firmware
from v3.0 to v3.1. I started getting some weird bugs from the Harman Kardon Drive+Play
system I had installed in my car - when I switched between songs, I often...
I've had enough of comment spam. If that doesn't work, I'll have to shut down
comments completely :-(
...
Today we submitted WS-Policy to the W3C. Yeah, with the recent flurry of WS-*
spec submissions, this may seem to be rather boring news, but nevertheless it's nice
to reach this mile...
These bits are what we internally call "RC0" and include most of the OM changes that
we planned on making post Jan CTP (the Go-Live release).
The bits are not as baked quality...
Today is a special day for us - by now this is old news, but here's my rejoinder:
today we posted the Go-Live releases
of WCF and WF. We have a click-through license (reminescent of...
Our new WCF community site is live! Check it out here.
We are especially excited about the "samples gallery" - the idea is to create a repository
of sample code, channels, behavio...
I've been suffering through an ever-increasing call-drop rate with my Vonage service
for the last few months. It's gotten to the point where most calls over 10min
will get disconnec...
The most excellent Ed Pinto justed posted
the definitive list of breaking changes on his blog.
Hopefully this will help folks who have been trying to port code to our newest CTP.
...
Today MSFT, IBM, VRSN, and RSA contributed the WS-SecurityPolicy spec to the OASIS
WS-SX TC. So now we've basically delivered on all the three major pillars of
WS-* - Security, Reli...
I'll pile on to the many announcements of WSE3 having shipped Nov
7.
When we set out on this release, we had a few goals in mind:
move the interop yardsticks forwar...
Peng Chang writes:
I am trying to develop a small P2P network game using WCF these days, and
I've read those samples such as "peer channel chat","Peer channel custom ...
Check it out.
We were all wondering who in the community was going to build this first, and good
money was on Aaron :-) Hervey, you got
beat to the punch! ;-)
...
A few years ago, we (Microsoft, IBM, BEA, andmany other partners) set out to
build a protocol framework on top of the foundations of XML and SOAP that would enable:
rich mess...
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