New and Notable 101

Not much today.

WCF/SOA/WSE

• The WCF RSS Toolkit is a Windows Communication Foundation-based framework for generating RSS 2.0 and Atom 1.0 content feeds
• Steve Maine on the WCF RSS Toolkit
• The latest WCF Documentation CTP (June 2 release) is now available for download.
• Microsoft today announced the creation of a new Customer Executive Council on Interoperability. [via Jorgen]
• Microsoft has recently released a WS-Federation sample based on the SAML implementation for WSE 3.0. [via Cibrax]. Hmm, maybe I could modify this and my stuff for WCF as we are headed towards WS-Federation and SAML soon

Data

• I guess SQL Mobile, which replaced SQL CE, has now been replaced by SQL Everywhere which is in a CTP and Books Online. Huh?

Blogging

• Links as valuable blog content? asks Jason Haley
• Andrew Garrett says No One Links to the Linkers
• The big news is my good friend Robert Scoble is leaving Microsoft. There is all sorts of bullshit thats being spun out of this which Scoble corrects here. I know Microsoft did not ever restrict him in any way and he was very happy there. I winced myself a number of times but I know Robert made a HUGE difference in community relations for Microsoft and for people like me who Robert included in many programs and activities.

C++/CLI

• Kate says that STL/CLR will be in Orcas.