All posts by : MSDN Webservices

1 of 51 | WS-ResourceCatalog - WS-ResourceCatalog specification, published today, defines a catalog for organizing and classifying management resources. The catalog is intended to advertise resources accessible via WS-Management, WSDM, and other management specifications including their underlying protocols....

2 of 51 | Understanding WS-Federation - Understanding WS-Federation is intended to help the reader understand the features of WS-Federation by describing the use of the specification in selected application scenarios. Key concepts are explained by examples of usage in application scenarios....

3 of 51 | Help teams work together with Web services and Groove 2007 - Microsoft Office Groove 2007 helps solve data access, concurrency, and other problems inherent in remote access collaboration scenarios....

4 of 51 | Service Station: WCF Messaging Fundamentals - This month Aaron Skonnard highlights some of the key messaging features behind the sophisticated messaging framework of Windows Communication Foundation....

5 of 51 | Service Station: BizTalk Server 2006 Web Services - This month Aaron Skonnard introduces the exciting world of BizTalk Server 2006 and its support for today’s Web services technologies....

6 of 51 | Compare the performance of WCF with existing distributed communication technologies - Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is a distributed communication technology that ships as part of the .NET Framework 3.0. Find out how its performance compares with ASMX, WSE, ES, and .NET Remoting....

7 of 51 | Foundations: Build a Queued WCF Response Service - With queued calls in Windows Communication Foundation you can perform work in a disconnected manner by sending messages through Microsoft Message Queuing. Juval Lowy explains....

8 of 51 | Service Station: The Service Factory for WCF - This month Aaron Skonnard continues his exploration of software factories with a look at the Web Service Software Factory for Windows Communication Foundation....

9 of 51 | Updated Specification on WS-Federation - Customer feedback has driven new updates to WS-Federation. Learn about features such as federation metadata, pseudonym management, authorization and privacy, and updated references to related specifications....

10 of 51 | Updated Specification on WS-Federation - Customer feedback has driven new updates to WS-Federation. Learn about features such as federation metadata, pseudonym management, authorization and privacy, and updated references to related specifications....

11 of 51 | Extreme ASP.NET: Client-Side Web Service Calls with AJAX Extensions - In this month's column, Fritz Onion details the useful ability to call server-side Web services from client-side JavaScript in an ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Extensions-enabled page....

12 of 51 | Service Station: Web Service Software Factory - Web Service Software Factory is designed to help you build Web service solutions that follow known architecture and design patterns, as Aaron Skonnard explains here....

13 of 51 | MTOM Serialization Policy Assertion specification published - This specification describes a domain-specific policy assertion that indicates endpoint support of the optimized MIME multipart/related serialization of SOAP messages defined in section 3 of the SOAP Message Transmission Optimization Mechanism [MTOM] spec...

14 of 51 | Consuming MSDN Web Services - Get the inside track on how to consume MSDN content in your own applications....

15 of 51 | Running ASMX Web Services on STA Threads - Jeff Prosise describes performance problems with an ASMX Web service that relied on legacy COM and Visual Basic 6.0 to perform key processing tasks, and he shows the solutions....

16 of 51 | WCF Essentials: What You Need To Know About One-Way Calls, Callbacks, And Events - Windows Communication Foundation introduces several ways for clients and servers to call remote methods. In this article, Juval Lowy explains how they work....

17 of 51 | Web Service Workflows: Deploy Distributed Business Processes With Windows Workflow And Web Services - Due to the distributed nature of a business process, it makes sense for a workflow to be deployed as a distributed application. See how Windows Workflow and Web Services hold the key....

18 of 51 | New WS-ResourceTransfer Specification Published - WS-ResourceTransfer was published today and WS-MetadataExchange in July 2006. These are the first steps in the HP, IBM, Intel, and Microsoft Management Convergence Roadmap. WS-ResourceTransfer extends WS-Transfer....

19 of 51 | Check Out the Updated Web Service Metadata Exchange Specification - WS-MetadataExchange has been republished based on community feedback. Updates include the use of the WS-Transfer Get operation for the retrieval of metadata and the description of how to push metadata to consumers using WS-Addressing Endpoint References....

20 of 51 | What’s New in System.Xml 2.0? - In this installment of Service Station, Aaron Skonnard takes a long hard look at System.Xml 2.0....

21 of 51 | New Remote Shell Web Services Protocol published - Describes a set of extensions to the standard WS-Management specification for accessing common command shell processors....

22 of 51 | JUST RELEASED! Web Service Software Factory - This cohesive collection of guidance enables architects and developers to design and build higher quality services and achieve more predictable results in less time by applying proven practices and patterns directly within Visual Studio 2005....

23 of 51 | Security Briefs: Security in WCF - Windows Communication Foundation provides three major protections— confidentiality, integrity, and authentication. This month Keith Brown explains what they can do for you....

24 of 51 | Service Station: Serialization in WCF - Windows Communication Foundation supports several serialization mechanisms and provides a simple, interoperable foundation for future service-oriented applications. Here Aaron Skonnard explains it all....

25 of 51 | Check out the ‘Understanding Web Services Policy’ - ‘Understanding Web Services Policy’ is an introductory description of the policy language and describes the language features using numerous examples....

26 of 51 | Web Services and the Microsoft Platform - Get a high-level overview of Web services support across Microsoft product offerings. Microsoft interoperability efforts and involvement in the Web services standardization process are also covered....

27 of 51 | Check out Windows Communication Foundation Virtual Labs - Learn how to build secure, reliable, transacted Web services applications that interoperate with applications built on other platforms and integrate with the applications you're building on todays .NET technologies with this MSDN Virtual Lab....

28 of 51 | Test out Windows Workflow Foundation - Beta 2 using Virutal Labs - Get hands-on training of Windows Workflow Foundation in this MSDN Virtual Lab....

29 of 51 | Service Station: WSE 3.0, SOAP Transports, and More - This month Aaron Skonnard answers reader questions on service orientation and policy-based compatibility, SOAP's transport-neutral design, and Web Services Enhancements (WSE) 3.0....

30 of 51 | WCF Essentials: Discover Mighty Instance Management Techniques For Developing WCF Apps - Instance management refers to a set of techniques used by Windows Communication Foundation to bind a set of messages to a service instance. This article introduces the concept and shows you why you need to understand instance management....

31 of 51 | Calling an Arbitrary Web Service - Test Web services quickly and more efficiently without having to write full-blown applications each time by using .NET reflection and the CodeDOM to dynamically generate a proxy to a Web Service....

32 of 51 | Windows Workflow Foundation Runtime Hosting and Services - Israel Hilerio explains the configuration you need to host the Windows Workflow Foundation runtime in your applications and create long running workflows with persistence, tracking, communications, and event handling....

33 of 51 | Introduction to the Windows Workflow Foundation Rules Engine - This article provides an overview of the rules engine capabilities in Windows Workflow Foundation....

34 of 51 | Service Station: Migrating to WSE 3.0 - Find out all you need to know to move to Web Services Enhancements 3.0 with Aaron Skonnard this month....

35 of 51 | Windows Communication Foundation Architecture Overview - Get a high-level view of the Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) architecture and its key concepts. Code examples demonstrate WCF contracts, endpoints, and behaviors....

36 of 51 | See the Updated Devices Profile for Web Services Specification - A new update to the Devices Profile for Web Services specification has been published based on workshop and partner feedback....

37 of 51 | Now Available! February CTP of WCF, WinFX and Windows Vista - Get the latest technology preview of Windows Communication Foundation, WinFX and Windows Vista (Windows Vista February CTP is only available to MSDN Subscribers)....

38 of 51 | Reporting Services: Deliver SQL Server Reports To SharePoint To Enhance Team Collaboration - The solution covered here includes a custom SharePoint Web service that accepts SQL Server-generated report files and, through the WSS object model, stores the file in the appropriate library for enhanced collaboration possibilities....

39 of 51 | Get the January CTP of Windows Communication Framework and WinFX in the Windows SDK. - Get the January 2006 Community Technical Preview of WCF and other technologies for free in the Windows SDK....

40 of 51 | Distributed .NET: Learn The ABCs Of Programming Windows Communication Foundation - Windows Communication Foundation unifies the existing suite of .NET distributed technologies into a single model, improving the developer experience. This article introduces WCF so you’ll be prepared to take advantage of all the new capabilities....

41 of 51 | Get Web Services Enhancements 3.0 to build Secure Web Services with Visual Studio 2005 - Download the final release of Web Services Enhancements (WSE) 3.0. This add-on to the .NET Framework 2.0 is designed to build secure Web services using the latest security protocols....

42 of 51 | Implementing Service Contracts with BizTalk Server 2004 - Explore some of the issues surrounding BizTalk Server's support for Web services and get guidance and practical techniques for implementing existing WSDL contracts in your BizTalk orchestrations....

43 of 51 | Service Station: All About ASMX 2.0, WSE 3.0, and WCF - This month, Service Station tackles questions on ASP.NET 2.0 Web Services, Web Services Enhancements 3.0, and Windows Communication Foundation....

44 of 51 | WSE Security: Protect Your Web Services Through The Extensible Policy Framework In WSE 3.0 - This article describes the WSE policy framework, which allows you to describe constraints and requirements a Web service must enforce. Discussions include security scenarios in WSE 3.0 and extending the framework with custom constraints and requirements....

45 of 51 | .NET Rocks! - Chris Anderson and the Longhorn Evangelism Team - This is a great show on what`s coming in Longhorn technology: Indigo, Avalon, XAML, and compatibility. We get to the heart of what the term "Managed OS" really means....

46 of 51 | WS-ReliableMessaging and WS-SecureConversation Composability Interop Workshop Announced - A workshop will be held April 13-14, 2005 to demo and explore the composability and interoperability issues related to the WS-ReliableMessaging, WS-SecureConversation (PDF) and WS-Trust specifications. This event is for hands-on interoperability testing by developers implementing the specifications....

47 of 51 | Why WSE - WSE provides benefits such as end-to-end message-level security, content-based routing, and policy by leveraging the WS-Security, WS-Addressing, and WS-Policy specifications....

48 of 51 | Updated Specifications on Web Services WS-SecureConversation and WS-Trust - Customer feedback has driven new updates to WS-SecureConversation and WS-Trust. Learn about new support for referencing Security Context Tokens and new support for renew and cancel bindings....

49 of 51 | Download Service Pack 2 of Web Services Enhancements (WSE) - This newly released service pack addresses customer issues and provides a new Kerberos token that enables support for constrained delegation and clustering scenarios....

50 of 51 | Updated Specifications on Web Services Transactions - Customer feedback has driven new updates to WS-AtomicTransaction, WS-BusinessActivity, and WS-Coordination. Learn about additional support for two-way initialization, security composition, and more....