The most fun that I had today was playing with the Microsoft Speech SDK v 5.1 for Windows - not to be confused with the Microsoft .NET Speech SDK Beta 2 . Of course I WAS confused for aa short while because I didn't realize at first that these are completely...

On Friday I finished my week long Developmentor Essential.NET class. I played with the WS-Security and WS-Attachements (DIME) capabilities in the WSE. Today we had VTC with Juval Lowy . Juval showed how to use object context and intercept calls to...

Here are a few useful .NET tools that I heard about this week: Lutz Roeder's Reflector Anakrino - IL to C# Decompiler Of course SysInternals has lots of great Windows tools. - Try out the debug viewer .

Today is day 4-of-5 of my Developmentor .NET Web Services Class. Dan Sullivan is teaching the class to a small group of Microsoft field developers. The course and instructor are simply awsome. I'm strangly sad that tomorrow is the last day. I've learned...

I spent the day learning the ins/outs of XML Schema and SOAP 1.1 and 1.2. I picked up a few cool things to share * http://apps.gotdotnet.com/xmltools/xsdinference/ This tool generates XSD from a document instance. Also includes a .NET library and source...

I'm taking Developmentor Web Services class this week. I'm fine with the basics, and I really don't need the class, however I'm getting a lot from it. There are a relatively small number of devs who are really into the core low level goo of WSDL, XSD...

My thoughts about the president's speech and war. Background on FBI system that I saw today for first responders....