June 2004 - Posts

WS-SecureConversation in WSE2

The other day I set up a very simple demo for a customer (and they know who they are as I think they read this) around having an ASP.NET web site and an ASP.NET web service where communication with the web service is done via WS-SecureConversation with Read More

Visual Studio 2005 Developer Center

Along with the Visual Studio 2005 public beta, the launch coincides with some new services at MSDN. The Visual Studio 2005 Developer Center has a bunch of great new features. Firstly, it allows you to register via Passport and set up a profile as to Read More

Visual Studio 2005 Beta 1 announced at TechEd

There's almost too much info to blog here :-) The first public beta of Visual Studio.NET 2005 was announced at TechEd Europe today. You can go and download the bits in the next week or two from MSDN subscriber downloads if you're an MSDN subscriber. Read More

David on Slashdot

I noticed that David got "Slashdotted" today for this entry - the article is here I hope that his blog can cope with all the extra hits it's going to get :-) Read More

C++ for .NET and Native in VS.NET Whidbey

I've just been catching up with a session that Herb Sutter gave at TechEd around C++ in the Whidbey release of the .NET framework and Visual Studio.NET. If you're not aware of Herb Sutter he's a very deep C++ guy and he's written a whole bunch of Read More

Ian Griffiths on Longhorn Composition

A bit of an old article but I only just came across it http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2004/03/08/winfs_detail_3.html Read More

Hosting WSE2.0 Soap Receivers

If you're doing ASMX web services with or without WSE2.0 then you've got a nice host process (aspnet_wp.exe or w3wp.exe) to host your application for you. So, if someone comes along and tries to get to http://someserver.com/someservice.asmx then IIS and Read More

A word for Active Desktop :-)

So, a technology that I really didn't like for the longest time was Active Desktop where you could set the Windows desktop to display the contents of a web page. Just recently though I've been forced to reconsider - maybe it's the availability of broadband Read More

System.Reflection in Whidbey

Posting a link to an interesting post I saw on Joel's site here http://blogs.msdn.com/joelpob/archive/2004/06/22/163206.aspx about what's coming in System.Reflection in Whidbey. This led me to one of his other related posts on these topics which Read More

Security Bulletins on RSS

Just noticed that security bulletins are being posted out on an RSS feed. Subscribe! Subscribe! http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/secrssinfo.mspx Read More

SharpReader

So, I'm back to using SharpReader for my blogging client. I persevered with my own Outlook plug-in for a while but, to be honest, it wasn't as good and I wasn't putting any effort in to make it better so I've given up. However! What I miss is having Read More

David Hill's Smart Client discussion

I was looking for a really nice, clear, ideally "Microsoft provided" definition of what we mean by a Smart Client that included some information on the path from Windows Forms through to Longhorn. I'd spend a while wandering around on the MSDN site Read More

Running SOAP messages through SQL Server with WSE 2.0

So, this posting is really just for fun. I wanted to have a play at writing an additional transport for the WSE 2.0 and I struggled to think of a good transport that was missing that wasn't going to be too hard for me to write :-) Some things that Read More

All we are saying.....

Clemens http://staff.newtelligence.net/clemensv/PermaLink.aspx?guid=3a029ead-58f2-405a-a5d1-6cc3513a59fa has a nice mnemonic for remembering those SOA tenets that everyone's repeating around here at the moment. Read More

Yasser Shohoud's TechEd Talk on Whidbey, Web Services & Networking

Yasser Shohoud has a blog posting here http://weblogs.asp.net/yassers/archive/2004/06/03/147805.aspx which gives you a link across to the slide deck and demos that he delivered at TechEd around ASMX features in Whidbey and some other networking bits Read More

Code Generation

I happened upon a new application generation tool today over here http://www.care-t.com/index.html under the name of OlivaNova. It sounds quite interesting and I like the separation of a set of modelling tools from a generation engine that takes Read More

Playing with EndpointReferences, WS-Addressing in WSE 2.0

There's a class named EndpointReference in the WSE2.0 framework. This class is used when you want to register a listener for SOAP messages and it's also used for addressing SOAP envelopes. On first glance it looks like an EndpointReference has a one Read More

WSE2.0 Circle Demo

I've been using a very simple demo around WSE2.0 to demonstrate just a few features on non-HTTP transport, WS-Policy and WS-Security and I thought that I'd share it here. What does the demo provide? A Windows Forms application (project name: CirclesClient) Read More

Updated WSE2.0 Tracing Utility

After extensive feedback (well, 2 posts anyway!) I updated the tracing utility that I posted here; http://mtaulty.com/downloads/WSE2_Tracing_V1.zip in order to include a toolbar and to allow the font sizes to be resized. It's still a bit clunky in Read More