All About Interop

Last year, I wrote about the idea of PowerShell CmdLets for WebSphere MQ. PowerShell is a beautiful scripting environment, you see, and it allows you to load any managed class library and then call into it. This is what allows me to, for example, create...

You can use DotNetZip library from within Powershell . It's pretty simple, fast, easy. example: function ZipUp-Files ( $directory ) { $children = get-childitem -path $directory foreach ( $o in $children ) { if ( $o.Name -ne "TestResults...

Microsoft has migrated its interop discussion forum to a new forum engine. Find it at: http://forums.community.microsoft.com/en-US/interopconversations/threads/ There you can ask questions on Vista print drivers, .Docx interop, Web services interop...

DotNetZip, the open source Zip Library for .NET, is now at v1.5. Find it at http://www.codeplex.com/DotNetZip . New features: ASP.NET - save a zip archive directly to Response.OutputStream to send down to the browser client, no need to create...

Another one of those in-case-you-missed-it posts: Scott Hanselman's done a good review of the possibilities of integrating openID with ASP.NET. I mentioned this before as an interesting area for development. Looks like things are moving along. Excellent...

In case you missed it, this is from 6 weeks ago, on a Port25 post from Sam Ramji: Today, Bob Muglia and Brad Anderson announced that System Center will have the ability to deliver automated management across heterogeneous IT environments, such as...

Open. Source. Is. Not. Interoperability. Ted Neward is an entertaining and talented writer, not to mention a stand-up guy, and a first-rate technogeek. But that doesn't mean he is always right. I was just reading and old post of his which I missed...

A couple weeks ago, Bill Staples made a splash when he announced a Rewrite Module for IIS7: http://blogs.iis.net/bills/archive/2008/05/31/urlrewrite-module-for-iis7.aspx But you can get mod_rewrite -like capability, even on IIS6, using the free IIRF...

Just saw this on TheServerSide.com . The Exchange Web Services for Java (EWSJ - what happened to the 4?). It's a Java class library that uses the Apache AXIS web services stack to connect connects to Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, via the published and...

Microsoft has a new web page up covering a collection of hosted platform services . Worth checking out. There is good interop capabilities in all of these. I'm thinking maybe I have to stand up some PHP examples that connect to SQL Server Data Services...

Did you ever want to zip up a file within an ASP.NET page, and then send it as a download for the requesting browser? The DotNetZip lib works within ASP.NET, and a recent update, available in the v1.5 preview release, allows you to create a zip file and...

We've updated the BizTalk Server web site , it looks pretty nice. I think the 3D warped spiderman web graphic thingy is going to sell a lot of enterprise software! ;) Seriously, though, the content is quite good. I think it's remarkable that we...