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51 of 493 | By God Its Out! - This is a big day. After being associated with Indigo for the better part of five years now, I am ecstatic that the whole Microsoft .NET Framework 3 RC has reached RC today!! I spoke to my friends Richard Turner and Craig McLuckie just the other day as we did a progress check on our project and WCF (Richard and my emails to each other read "YAY!!!), and I knew it was close but not this close-). They told us we were one of the leading-edge adopters of Indigo. As I have stated before, we have been using WCF now in a real production application for over a year now and went into a CTP with a large International Bank in Paris this year with WCF. I can say that this "applicati......

52 of 493 | Use SOAP - First lesson: you don't need WSE to consume a web service.  Just add the web reference. Second lesson: if you have a web service that only exposes simple types (e.g., strings), you don't get a Reference.xsd created when you add the web reference.  Therefore, you can't use a map to set the values of your web service's parameters.  You need to use a Message Assignment shape inside a Construct Message shape to set your parameters.  This also means that you have to promote or distinguish any value in your incoming message that you need to pass to the web service.  See my previous post about promoting strings >256 characters. Third lesson: the Request-Response port ......

53 of 493 | Going to TechEd China to give talks on WSE and WCF - Please visit http://www.microsoft.com/china/technet/teched/ for more informations, and sign up now....

54 of 493 | .NET 3.0 at Tech.Ed NZ – 15 Sessions! - I was asked what .NET 3.0 sessions were being held at Tech.Ed this year in New Zealand so I thought I'd take a moment to call out all 15 .Net 3.0 sessions. .NET 3.0 has 4 key pillars… and we have a key person from Microsoft Corp representing each of these pillars. Windows Presentation Foundation - http://wpf.netfx3.com/              Arik Cohen, is the lead program manager for Windows Presentation Foundation at Microsoft Corp. Windows Communication Foundation - http://wcf.netfx3.com/                  Payam Shodjai is a product manager for Web......

55 of 493 | How to use the Service BAT, Exception Handling and Logging Blocks with WCF and CAB - So, in the last post, I talked about our problems identified during the CTP. This second part is an instructive solution-oriented post about what we did to fix things. So, as I went off on vacation for a week, I pretty much obbessed on the issues during the CTP and proper exception handling! -) Truth be told, we had done some correct things with FaultContracts, but we had not systematically done proper SOA design with our Indigo Serices. The question is what are the right practices in an emerging technology like WCF? I knew some of them like FaultContracts but where do you turn to? You turn to what is emerging to be the number one group in Microsoft, Patterns and Practices for Architectura......

56 of 493 | How to use the Service BAT, Exception Handling and Logging Blocks with WCF and CAB - So, in the last post, I talked about our problems identified during the CTP. This second part is an instructive solution-oriented post about what we did to fix things. So, as I went off on vacation for a week, I pretty much obbessed on the issues during the CTP and proper exception handling! -) Truth be told, we had done some correct things with FaultContracts, but we had not systematically done proper SOA design with our Indigo Services. The question is what are the right practices in an emerging technology like WCF? I knew some of them like FaultContracts but where do you turn to? You turn to what is emerging to be the number one group in Microsoft, Patterns and Practices for Architectur......

57 of 493 | How to use the Service BAT, Exception Handling and Logging Blocks with WCF and CAB - So, in the last post, I talked about our problems identified during the CTP. This second part is an instructive solution-oriented post about what we did to fix things.So, as I went off on vacation for a week, I pretty much obbessed on the issues during the CTP and proper exception handling! -) Truth be told, we had done some correct things with FaultContracts, but we had not systematically done proper SOA design with our Indigo Services. The question is what are the right practices in an emerging technology like WCF? I knew some of them like FaultContracts but where do you turn to? You turn to what is emerging to be the number one group in Microsoft, Patterns and Practices for Architectural......

58 of 493 | BizTalk Server 2006 Learning Resources - Online/Virtual Training   BizTalk Server Virtual Labs http://msdn.microsoft.com/virtuallabs/biztalk/ or http://www.microsoft.com/biztalk/techinfo/virtual-labs.mspx Learn how to take full advantage of BizTalk Server key features through virtual labs.  It's simple and free: no complex setup or installation is required to try BizTalk Server running in the full-featured MSDN Virtual Lab. You get a downloadable manual and a 90-minute block of time for each module. You can sign up for additional 90-minute blocks any time or take advantage of our introductory experience with the new Virtual Lab Express. ·         Express Lab: What's new in Bi......

59 of 493 | Book Review: Microsoft Windows Communication Foundation: Hands-on! - 0.2 Book Review:Microsoft Windows Communication Foundation: Hands-on! Microsoft Windows Communication Foundation: Hands-on! (Beta Edition), $53.99 by Craig McMurty, Marc Mercuri, and Nigel Watling Sams, 2006 539 pages Examples in C# ISBN 0-672-32877-1 http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0672328771 If you've been paying attention at all, you know that Windows Communication Foundation (more commonly known as WCF to cut down on needless overuse of electrons), formerly "Indigo," which used to be a part of WinF......

60 of 493 | Building Connected Systems with BizTalk Server 2006 R2 - Pluralsight is holding a special event -- Building Connected Systems with BizTalk Server 2006 R2 -- on December 4-8 in Kirkland, WA focused on the next release of BizTalk Server, which brings some compelling new features to Connected Systems development.    It seems so much is happening in the Connected Systems space these days, even outside of BizTalk Server. .NET 3.0 is on the doorstep with some important arrivals -- WCF and Worflow -- which will have a huge impact on the way .NET developers build their systems. A new version of Office is also coming -- 2007 Microsoft Office System -- with new releases of SharePoint, InfoPath, and a new InfoPath "server" called Forms Server 2007, which b......

61 of 493 | Published: WCF Interoperability with WSE 2.0 and the Migration Incentive - Blasphemy ... It is finally published. After many, many, and I mean, many months of paying the process tax for this piece, it is finally LIVE ! I started this piece with the first ever March 2005 CTP of _WCF_ and I went through so many port demos and edit document cycles its so unbelievably painful ... But it is really good to see this in online form and shape. I started with this idea even though _MSFT_ has explicity stated that it will not support any form of interoperability between WSE 2.0 and WCF, even though it is "theoretically possible to develop Web services using WSE 2.0 in such a way that they can interoperate with WSE ......

62 of 493 | New and Notable 104 - You know what? Owning a pool really sucks-). Oh, it’s great to go in but not a lot of fun spending most of every Saturday going to the pool shop getting the water levels measured, spending $100 a week on chemicals, spending the rest of the day applying such chemicals, and endless vacuuming. Plus I have no F*&^^ idea what I’m doing-). Anyone sympathize? I have a whole bunch of stuff saved up since I couldn’t blog because even with 8 of us busting our humps we totally blew this Iteration (more later) and we’re all working in pieces this weekend (Yes, even on an Agile team!). It was a really awesome week for Ruby, especially in CLR land: Ruby/Rails Great news from John Gough (author of ......

63 of 493 | MTOM in WCF and WebSphere? - Someone asked how to send binary attachments between .NET and WebSphere.   After much wailing and gnashing of teeth, the W3C standard for sending attachments in webservices is MTOM.   On the Microsoft side, MTOM is supported in WSE 3.0 or WCF .     I believe MTOM is not yet supported in a released version of WebSphere Application Server.   Hmmm...   You could use Apache AXIS on the Java side - AXIS 2.0 does MTOM, and it just went to the 1.0 release (not sure how the AXIS guys came up with AXIS 2.0 1.0, these version numbers are baffling to me.  But those who live in glass houses, etc etc. )  But if you rely on AXIS for MTO......

64 of 493 | 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 Everywh......

65 of 493 | TechEd 2006 Precon Demos - TechEd 2006 is here. I delivered a pre-conference seminar on Building .NET Web Services Today with .NET 2.0 and WSE 3.0. You can get the demos here, which may not make much sense unless you were there.   I was somewhat surprised by one of my informal surveys, which showed that a much higher percentage of the attendees are actually using Web services in production today.  Many of them are taking advantage of ASMX and WSE with great success, solving real problems with today's technologies. Refreshing.  ...

66 of 493 | Julie Lerman's Webcast on WSE 3.0 Today! - Julie Lerman's webcast on “Introducing Web Services Enhancements for Microsoft .NET (WSE) 3.0” is today from 8:00a - 9:00a am PST... yep, 11:00a - 12:00p for us in EST.  I got a chance to look over the slides and demos... this is a must-see for people interested in the transition from ASMX to WCF....

67 of 493 | Upcoming Webcast on Extending WCF - Kirk has organized a suite of Web Services Webcasts that will be delivered this month on MSDN. You'll find sessions on ASMX 2.0, WSE 3.0, and a bunch on WCF scheduled throughout June.   I'll be giving my Webcast on Extending WCF tomorrow morning at 8:00am PST. See you there!  ...

68 of 493 | June is Web Services Webcast Month - We have some incredible webcasts to bring you during the month of June. Not only is there a great line-up of topics, there are also some incredible speakers that are presenting. Check out this list! You can find more information on this series on the Windows Vista landing page.  “The Lifetime of a Message in Windows Communication Foundation” Justin Smith, Wintellect 6/1/2006 8:00 AM PST http://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/eventdetail.aspx?eventID=1032299306&Culture=en-US  “Taking Advantage of TCP/IP Reliability in SOAP” William “Softwaremaker” Tay 6/6/2006 8:00 AM PST http://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/eventdetail.aspx?eventID=1032299329&Culture=en-US   “Extendin......

69 of 493 | So you want to learn WSE 3.0? A short primer on how and where to start. - A question that I often get asked is - How do I get started learning about WSE 3.0 and what considerations need to be made when building secure Web services?   So I have put together some essential steps to help get you started on the road with WSE 3.0 along with some estimated times. I have also included some projects to spark ideas that you can build, because in the end that is the only true way to learn.   1) First go to the WSE Home Page here         Download the WSE 3.0 SDK and read the documentation introduction         Run each of the WSE Quickstarts samples and look through the code......

70 of 493 | Biztalk WSE 3.0 Adapter Ships - Jesus Rodriguez with Two Connect has filled the last gaping need for WSE 3.0 by delivering a Biztalk 2006 adapter which you can get here. We did a webcast together with Jesus doing a bunch of great demos to show off its capabilities. You can watch the webcast here. The feature that has saved me many times with customers is the easy with which you can configure the WSE 3.0 policy pipeline processing. For example at the end of last week I faced a mail from a customer who wanted to do CertificateOverTransport secure communication between a WSE 3.0 client and a WCF service. Think a variant of UsernameOverCertificate. Although WCF has this feature built in through configurat......

71 of 493 | WSE 3.0 in June 2006 MSDN Magazine - Great to see Aaron continuing to give WSE 3.0 love in his Service Station column. Now I just have to finish my "WCF for WSE Developers" article which keeps looking back at me half finished from my desk as a pile of scribbled notes. Currently I am attempting to churn out the security conceptual documentation for WCF along with Gudge and Jan, so you can blame/praise us for the final version. Suffice to say that there is plenty to explain given that security is a sprawling topic :-)...

72 of 493 | Handling Exclusive XML Canonicalisation in .NET 1.1 - A colleague is currently extending an existing .NET 1.1 application, and is adding functionality to handle SAML tokens provided by an identity provider web site.   He came across the problem of handing exclusive XML canonicalisation in the older version of the framework.   Microsoft supports the use of pluggable 'transform' classes to handle XML digital signature transforms (as specified using the element in the XML Digital Signature standard.   The trouble is that version 1.1 of the framework does not contain a transform class for exclusive XML canonicalisation.   Every time he tried to validate the digital signature in the token he got an error mess......

73 of 493 | WSE 2.0 SP1 Adapter Released! - Last week WSE 2.0 Service Pack 1 released to web, coinciding with BizTalk Server 2006's generally availability in the field.  This adapter enables interoperability between BizTalk Server and other applications that require use of WS-Security, WS-SecurityPolicy, WS-SecureConversation, WS-Trust, WS-Policy protocols as implemented in WSE 2.0 protocol stack.  This service pack, in particular, allows the WSE 2.0 adapter to work with BizTalk Server 2004 as well as BizTalk Server 2006. More information on this release can be found on Microsoft.com:http://www.microsoft.com/biztalk/evaluation/adapter/adapters/wse/default.mspx...

74 of 493 | The Daily Grind 878 - I wanted a job that wouldn't be dull, didn't I? Getting Things Done - Command Line Processor - Free command-line interface for Microsoft Outlook tasks. Aqua Data Studio 4.7 - This cross-database cross-platform database query and administration tool adds a whole batch of Oracle features with this release as well as a visual query builder and SQL Server 2005 support. Download a copy here, license is free for personal or educational use, starting at $149 for commercial use. StructureMap goes 1.0! New release of the best Dependency Injection tool for .Net* - Jeremy Miller puts out some open source goodness for anyone who wants to experiment with t......

75 of 493 | 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....

76 of 493 | WSE 3.0 Adapter Webcast Tomorrow - Our good friends at Two Connect have built a WSE 3.0 adapter and are giving a webcast on its capabilities tomorrow. Check out the details here. -Kris...

77 of 493 | WSE 3, SalesForce.com, and SQL Service Broker BizTalk Adapters - Wow, the guys at Two Connect have been very busy.  They have released three new adapters for BizTalk Server 2006.    They are: SalesForce.com (integrated with them in the past through .net as a BizTalk Adapter would be great) Web Services Enhancements (WSE) 3.0 SQL Server Service   They have some upcoming web casts along with members of the Microsoft Product Teams to cover these exciting new adapters.   Make sure you check them out.  You can get more information on Jesus Rodriguez blog....

78 of 493 | Web Service Geek? Go Read Pluralsight's blogs - I like to write in my blog, but I hardly read other blogs anymore.  In fact, I don't have an aggregator installed, and my History for Internet Explorer shows mainly MSDN and MSN searches.  There are a few random website entries, likely from clicking on links in emails (TheServerSide.NET's interview with Peter Provost being a recent entry).  I decided to blow off work tonight and do some random blog surfing.  Started on blogs.msdn.com... didn't see anything that caught my eye.  Went to weblogs.asp.net... nada.  A couple slightly interesting things on geekswithblogs.com, but nothing jumping out.  Then I went to pluralsight's blogs.  An ......

79 of 493 | More Adapters from Jesús and Webcasts. - Jesús has been very busy building adapters. They include: SalesForce.com adapter for BizTalk Server 2006 Web Services Enhancements (WSE) 3.0 adapter for BizTalk Server 2006 SQL Server Service Broker adapter for BizTalk Server 2006 v1.5 A Webcast on the SalesForce Adapter will be given tomorrow (April 20), and a Webcast on the WSE 3.0 adapter will be given on May 5. You can read more about the adapters and Webcasts HERE    ...

80 of 493 | More Adapters from Jesús and Webcasts. - Jesús has been very busy building adapters. They include: SalesForce.com adapter for BizTalk Server 2006 Web Services Enhancements (WSE) 3.0 adapter for BizTalk Server 2006 SQL Server Service Broker adapter for BizTalk Server 2006 v1.5 A Webcast on the SalesForce Adapter will be given tomorrow (April 20), and a Webcast on the WSE 3.0 adapter will be given on May 5. You can read more about the adapters and Webcasts HERE    ...

81 of 493 | More Adapters from Jesús and Webcasts. - Jesús has been very busy building adapters. They include: SalesForce.com adapter for BizTalk Server 2006 Web Services Enhancements (WSE) 3.0 adapter for BizTalk Server 2006 SQL Server Service Broker adapter for BizTalk Server 2006 v1.5 A Webcast on the SalesForce Adapter will be given tomorrow (April 20), and a Webcast on the WSE 3.0 adapter will be given on May 5. You can read more about the adapters and Webcasts HERE    ...

82 of 493 | MSDN BizTalk Server Adapter Webcast - Here is an email from Jesus Rodriguez on his new adapter and webcasts that some of you may have interest in. --------------------------------   We just finished the news version of the Service Broker adapter, the Web Services Enhancements 3.0 adapter and the SalesForce.com adapter. I am doing a MSDN Webcast this Thursday introducing the SalesForce.com adapter for BTS 2006 (http://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032294305&EventCategory=4&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US ) and another WebCast May 5th for the WSE 3.0 adapter. I blog about it (http://weblogs.asp.net/gsusx/archive/2006/04/18/443275.aspx ) I am wondering if you can reference it in ......

83 of 493 | WCF Compression Filter - Some time back a coworker and I released a sample compression filter for WSE 2.0 nicknamed “WS-Compression”, this sample was later enhanced and finally converted to a WSE 3.0 compliant filter. As it turns it has further evolved into a WCF compression filter available from this blog post. Interesting how things work out! ...

84 of 493 | BizTalk Support for Web Services FAQ - Our web services dev and support teams have put together a FAQ that lays out our current and future support for various Web Services technologies including SOAP, WSE 2, WSE 3, and WCF (indigo). Let us know if there are additional questions you think should be added.   -Kris...

85 of 493 | Channel Authors unite! - Hot off the presses is a new resource for channel authors: the WCF Custom Channel Resources page at windowscommunication.net. This is a great portal for samples, documentation, and all things Channel-related. The samples page contains updated versions of our PDC demos (WSE 3.0 TCP Interop and Chunking Channel) as well as new helpers for testing and generating config for your channels. Check it out! ...

86 of 493 | Tech.Ed 2006 - Tech.Ed 2006.... oh yes.... 2006! Michael Kleef is on point for content for Tech.Ed this year in New Zealand and Australia. Remember if you want to submit a technical paper to speak at the event do so here this month! We are changing the way we do things this year by having a different person responsible for each technical track! Yup ultimately it is the track leaders call who speaks and what is presented in the track. Each track lead has started to stack rank the top 16 session across each track and Michael has blogged these and is looking for feedback. The web dev ones aren't up there yet even though I have submitted them! Things are falling into place this year and I'm hoping to m......

87 of 493 | Syracuse NY Wednesday for SOA with Indigo - Just a reminder that our next CNY .NET Developer Group meeting is next Wednesday, April 5th at 6:00pm at New Horizons in East Syracuse (6711 Towpath Road ). You don't want to miss an opportunity to meet Sam Gentile, an internationally known and recognized .NET expert! So we can get an estimate of how many attendees we will have, please RSVP by logging into www.cnydevelopers.net and answering the meeting survey (or reply to this email). Here is why you don't want to miss it! Sam Gentile, internationally known and recognized .NET expert, will present "SOA/Indigo/WSE Overview" This meeting is sponsored by INETA, and they are providing Pizza and Soda!   Meet other .N......

88 of 493 | Reminder of Blog Articles and Posts from 4 Years+ of My Archives - There may be some new readers that are not aware of my old blogs on samgentile.com, dotnetweblogs and radio back in the day. In short, I have been blogging and writing on .NET since 2000. Revisiting all this stuff it absolutely blows me away how productive I was in 2002 and 2003 - I write many megabytes of great stuff! This post attempts to gather my most popular blog stories and posts. Thanks for your readership. CLR, CLI and Rotor The all-time fav and classic from the "glory years" of .NET in 2002, "It's The Runtime Stupid!" (I mean runtime + framework, i.e. .NET Framework) A Night With Rotor and Rotor Resources, 7/1/2002 Ingo Reports on our Rotor Woes from Last Nig......

89 of 493 | 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....

90 of 493 | WCF and (no) Partial Trust - Via Doug’s blog, I learned about Partial Trust will not make the WCF V1 cutoff. I can say, having been part of the 2 year Indigo SDR, watching all the hard work, I believe Doug and Clemens that they wanted to do it, ran out of time, and “that partial trust is incredibly hard (and very time consuming) to test for a communication platform that is supposed to have rock solid security (no paradoxon here) and shall perform well.” I believe it all. However, the problem is that those of us who have gone with Indigo now have a big problem thats pretty hard to deal with. Full trust on Indigo forces most of the rest of the system to use Full Trust and that’s a real bad thing. My two friends, Robert a......

91 of 493 | Common WSE Kerberos Problem - Mark Fussell discusses a common problem when using WSE 3.0 and Kerberos security.  He answers the following question: I need advice with WSE 3.0 and implementing a web service that requires a Kerberos token. It seems that my simple web service and Windows client should be straight-forward but I’m not able to get past the error “Security requirements are not satisfied because the security header is not present in the incoming message."    -Matt...

92 of 493 | WSE 3.0 - Kerberos, Secure Conversation and Stateful SCTs - I thought that I would publish some discussion threads on WSE issues that I have had recently that highlight some common questions. A recent discussion question was this; Question: "I need advice with WSE 3.0 and implementing a web service that requires a Kerberos token. It seems that my simple web service and Windows client should be straight-forward but I’m not able to get past the error “Security requirements are not satisfied because the security header is not present in the incoming message. System.Exception {System.InvalidOperationException} Here is the client policy file. The server one is nearly identical: <policies xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wse/2005/......

93 of 493 | Web Services Contract First - Now Available For Visual Studio 2005 - Christian Weyer and the Thinktecture team have released a version of the WSCF (Web Services Contract First) plugin for Visual Studio 2005!  At the NYC Code Camp, I gave a presentation on an Intro to Web Services and used Visual Studio 2003, instead of Visual Studio 2005, because the plugin wasn’t available for .Net 1.1.  Well, now I don’t have to use Visual Studio 2003 anymore.  As much as I love WSCF, I really want the Microsoft Patterns and Practices equivalent, WS-BAT which uses the Guidance Automation Toolkit.  Actually, the first time I saw the Guidance Automation toolkit in action was at the PDC pre-con on Web Services best prac......

94 of 493 | Atlanta Communications Sector Developer Workshop Featuring Jeffrey Richter: February 22nd - Sign up now, seating is limited.   Jeffrey Richter will speak to the group on Building, Deploying, and Versioning .NET Components and Applications.  Jeffrey will explain how .NET compilers produce metadata and how this metadata is used by the CLR to resolve type references. In this talk, we’ll walk through the process of building an assembly and discuss how the CLR locates dependant assemblies avoiding the need for the registry. Then, we’ll discuss how to create and deploy shared assemblies containing shared components. Finally, we’ll discuss how to version these assemblies without adversely affecting the application’s behavior making “DLL Hell” a thing of the past.   Dev......

95 of 493 | Cabanas at Tech Ed 4 the Connected Systems Track - You tell me what you want.  The cabanas are your time.  What topics do you want to cover?  I think it is natural to bring in the speakers after their session, but what else is interesting?  Who do you want to hear from?  What do you want to hear about?  John Bristowe and Aaron Skonnard are already planning BOFs.  I can imagine following the BOF up with a whiteboard sessions the next day in the cabana.  One is on WSE another on Contract first.  What do you want to hear about in the cabanna? Implementing WS-RM, SAML, Custom Issuing services, Eventing, BA, with WSE? Indigo Programming UDDI Discovering services Extending VSTS to genera......

96 of 493 | Planning your Tech Ed Experience Right - Tech Ed is around the corner.  I wanted to provide you an update on the distributed systems portion of Connected Systems Infrastructure track.   The track will be kicked off with a strategic briefing on Microsoft’s connected systems strategy by Charles Fitzgerald. The concept of the office has morphed over the course of the past ten years.  Information Workers require connectivity to their corporate services and data while they work and socialize in coffee shops, airports, their homes, on trains, or wherever they may be.  Virtual Private Networks are no longer sufficient for facilitating access to critical systems and can often hinder productivity in this faced paced w......

97 of 493 | What's next? - I just finished my assessment of our CSI track at Tech Ed, and the work done by everyone payed off!  Kudos to all of the speakers and staff for pulling through. I wish that I could have been there to educate and learn with you. Tell me if you think otherwise, but I believe the format for the track went over quite successfully.  I am bummed that I didn't have an opportunity to get first hand feedback.  I have received email from a few of you saying thank you etc.  If you have any other feedback, let us know. These are some of my take aways: You get Web services and don't need to learn the basics any more.  You like the idea of learning i......

98 of 493 | WSE based Reliable Message - Hey everyone, George Copeland just published the reliable messaging implementation built on the WSE 3.0 community technology preview bits.  It is not supported; however, should provide a great baseline for folks that need standardized rm. Check it out and let us know your thoughts on it....

99 of 493 | .NET 2.0 XML Perf Comparison with Sun - As presented in my article on System.Xml Beta 1 (which was effectively re-written into the Beta 2 version of my System.Xml book) the #1 feature in the .NET 2.0 release for System.Xml was performance. In the past Sun has come out bashing the XML performance support in .NET 1.1 which I wrote about here. Now all has been vindicated officially with an XML performance comparison report between .NET 2.0 Beta2, .NET 1.1, and Sun Java 1.5 Platforms. Simply by looking at the bar charts, in the majority of scenarios .NET 2.0 Beta 2 was twice as fast as the Sun implementation when parsing XML. Superb! Furthermore here is a comparison article for Web Services performance between .N......

100 of 493 | Final Version of WSE 3.0 Released to MSDN - WSE 3.0 has just been released to MSDN to coincide with the launch of Visual Studio 2005. You can find it here. The Readme is here It was pretty tough getting this released to be on the same day, but we really wanted to ensure that the time difference between WSE 3.0 and VS2005 was as small as possible so that you could start building secure web services on the latest standards today that are also interoperable with Windows Communication Foundation (WCF). I have started to compile a set of WSE resource links, but there is plenty of content on the WSE home page. There a significant paradigm shift when using WSE 3.0 compared to WSE 2.0 and to help with this the WSE Hands On Labs (H......