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Recently, I’ve been working on a Silverlight application that grabs some data via web services, and up until the last day or so, those services were on a different domain, and the service domain had a clientaccesspolicy.xml file in place allowing access to the service. Good enough so far. A couple...

Here are the events listed in Community Megaphone for the next week (or so) for the Mid-Atlantic area…this list now includes events imported from the UGSS event calendar , and all events entered in Community Megaphone are also now automatically synced to the UGSS event calendar: Monday, April 06, 2009...

Here are the events listed in Community Megaphone for the next week (or so) for the Mid-Atlantic area…this list now includes events imported from the UGSS event calendar , and all events entered in Community Megaphone are also now automatically synced to the UGSS event calendar: Wednesday, April 01,...

Two great apps that work great together: “Hey, you got your event in my UGSS!” “No, you got your event in my Community Megaphone !” If you’re a developer looking for events, or a community leader looking to get your events promoted, one challenge you face is figuring out where it makes sense for you...

Keith Elder has what I think is a nice analogy of the difference between ASMX web services and WCF services : This question comes up a lot in conversations I have with developers.  “Why would I want to switch to ASMX services?” One analogy I have come up with to explain the difference between the...

Nice blog post (a little long, but worth the read) on adopting Silverlight today, including integrating with back-end web services: A very common deployment scenario for Silverlight 1.1 Applications is to be hosted from Windows Server 2003/IIS6 environments. This implies that the development environment...

A definite don't-miss event this week is this Thursday's Microsoft Integration and Connected Systems User Group, at which Anil John, from the John's Hopkins University's Applied Physics Lab, will talk about the state of the WS-* specifications, and discuss what's real, and what's hype. Anil has been...

The Patterns & Practices group is at it again...they've just released the Web Service Software Factory , aka Service Factory. There's downloadable source-based guidance, a hands-on lab, and a webcast to get your started.

Here's an article on WSE 3.0 security that a colleague recommended...I haven't had a chance to read through it, but she recommended it highly, so I'm betting it's worthwhile.