March 2005 - Mike Taulty's Blog - Mike Taulty's Blog

Indigo: Switching encoding on channels

In my previous posts about Indigo messaging making use of channels; A slightly different "hello world" for Indigo Layers of Indigo Indigo- Moving on from IInputChannel to IRequestChannel I went with the default encoding of the messages that were sent...

Published Thu, Mar 31 2005 2:25 PM by mtaulty

Indigo: Moving on from IInputChannel to IRequestChannel

In my previous Indigo post , I made use of a simple IOutputChannel for sending a message and IInputChannel for receiving one. Naturally, there are other message exchange patterns (MEPs) and there's modelling for these in other channel interfaces which looks...

Published Thu, Mar 31 2005 2:11 PM by mtaulty

Layers of Indigo

In trying to understand the Indigo CTP, the sketch that's resonating best with me right now is the one below which I've stolen from a slide-deck and shows how the technology is layered . An application can make use of any or a mixture of the layers. At the...

Published Thu, Mar 31 2005 2:08 PM by mtaulty

.NET BCL Team Blog

This is old but I wasn't aware of it. The .NET Framework Base Class Library (BCL) team has a blog site over here; http://blogs.msdn.com/bclteam It looks like pretty good stuff to me - only had a chance to skim through the most recent posts but there's a lot...

Published Thu, Mar 31 2005 10:49 AM by mtaulty

Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 & x64 OS editions

Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 released yesterday. There's a press-release here http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2005/mar05/03-30winservsp1pr.asp that you can follow. Hidden down at the bottom of that is a mention of the fact that the versions of...

Published Thu, Mar 31 2005 10:08 AM by mtaulty

A slightly different "hello world" for Indigo

I've started playing with Indigo a little bit. Clemens Vasters has three great posts on the basics of Indigo so I'm not going to reiterate those here but will link to them; A Weekend With Indigo. Part 1- Simple Messaging A Weekend With Indigo. Part 2- Fun with...

Published Wed, Mar 30 2005 3:40 PM by mtaulty

Indigo, Proxies and Generic Types

There's something that the Indigo team seem to be doing with their proxies and generic types that I hadn't really thought about previously. The pattern looks something like this; class b<T> { public b() { } protected T _member = default(T); } interface...

Published Wed, Mar 30 2005 6:44 AM by mtaulty

Aaron Skonnard on ASMX V2.0

Aaron Skonnard has written a great article on the new ASMX web service features that you can expect to find in Visual Studio 2005 beta 2 when it comes out. The highlights from this for me; The improved XML editing support (yes, the XML editor gets snippets...

Published Wed, Mar 30 2005 12:53 AM by mtaulty

Sample ASP.NET 2.0 Membership Provider

In ASP.NET 2.0 we have the provider model where storage for the different API sets (e.g. Membership, Profile, Navigation, etc.) is pluggable in that you write a provider for your particular store if we don't ship one that you want to use. I got asked for a...

Published Thu, Mar 24 2005 1:25 AM by mtaulty

Shuttle Media Center at CEBIT

Wow, it looks like Shuttle had a very smart preview of a new form factor they're doing for a media center PC at CeBIT this year. There's a reasonably decent picture here http://eu.shuttle.com/en/resourceimage.aspx?raid=12464 - looks just like a Video player...

Published Tue, Mar 22 2005 2:37 PM by mtaulty

Web Services on MSDN Nuggets

A new set of "Web Services" MSDN Nuggets have started to drop out on the UK MSDN Site . MSDN Nuggets are 10-15 minute demonstration clips of how to get stuff done with the .NET Framework each one exploring a particular topic with little/no presentation...

Published Tue, Mar 22 2005 4:00 AM by mtaulty

Announcing a Unique UK .NET Developer Event

The fantabulous Mr Mike Pelton has turned up the activity level on his blog site and has posted some information about the "Developer...Developer...Developer" event that's being hosted at Microsoft UK on Saturday (yes, Saturday) the 14th May. Here...

Published Tue, Mar 22 2005 3:52 AM by mtaulty

Whidbey ASP.NET and Windows SharePoint Services WebParts

There's an important post over here Keep Writing SharePoint Web Parts Until (at least) 2006 about the interoperability that you can expect to get between Whidbey ASP.NET 2.0 WebParts and Windows SharePoint Services WebParts.

Published Mon, Mar 21 2005 3:10 PM by mtaulty

MSDN Subscription Changes & VS 2005 Pricing/Licensing Details Announced

MSDN subscriptions are changing with the forthcoming release of VS2005 and the licensing/pricing for VS 2005 has been announced. There's a press release here: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2005/mar05/03-21vs2005pr.asp but the meat of the information...

Published Mon, Mar 21 2005 11:15 AM by mtaulty

Displaying my blog site in FireFox

I got some feedback from Oliver Sturm that my blog site displayed horribly in FireFox so I grabbed myself a copy tonight and took a look and he's definitely right (thanks for sending me the pictures, Oliver). So...the blog site has a new theme (the .Text "blue"...

Published Sun, Mar 20 2005 3:13 PM by mtaulty

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