Kirk Evans Blog

A customer pinged me with an interesting problem. They hosted an ASMX web service to run under SSL according to the KB article " HOW TO: Secure XML Web Services with Secure Sockets Layer in Windows Server 2003 ". When they viewed the WSDL for the service...

I have been working with two separate customers over the past few days on the same problem. Both have an existing web application that they are migrating to ASP.NET 2.0. They both wrote their own authentication functionality, and are now considering how...

Lots of customers who skipped the .NET 2.0 betas waiting for the RTM are now asking questions like, "will my application continue to run?" Some resources to help you understand application compatibility: Channel9 video explaining application...

ASMX 2.0 supports both SOAP 1.1 and SOAP 1.2. But how do you use SOAP 1.2 with your ASMX services? Suppose you have a web service using ASMX 2.0 and you want to explicitly consume a SOAP 1.2 web service. The documentation for adding or removing...

Some frequently asked questions from the MSDN Forums , answered by Ajay Sudan, Product Manager for Visual Studio Team System... Q: I am an MSDN Universal Subscriber; why can't I see any of the role-based products or Team Suite in the MSDN Subscriber Downloads...

A pretty cool feature in .NET 2.0 is the ability knowingly disable a list of warnings using the #pragma directive. using System; public class foo { // Disable warnings for unused or unassigned fields #pragma warning disable 0169, 0414 // No warning...

This has come up several times at customer events, folks want to know how to write their own providers. Probably the best resource for understanding how to write your own provider for ASP.NET 2.0 is the ASP.NET Developer Center's site for the Provider...

Customers have recently asked me where to find the "Build Comment Web Pages" command in Visual Studio 2005. Unfortunately, you aren't going to find it as it was cut from the product. Eric Gunnerson's blog has more information on the removal of the Build...

While reading over Scott's list of interview questions (gut-checking that I am at the level I think I am), I came across a really cool tip. You can find any currently running processes that are using .NET using the command-line: tasklist /m "mscor...

If you now have Visual Studio 2005 RTM and wanted to try out some of the Windows Workflow stuff... you can download Windows Workflow Foundation Beta 1.2, which runs on .NET 2.0 RTM .

I really wanted to show how cool Indigo Windows Commuication Foundation is, not only by showing demos that use various bindings on the fly, but also to show what the messages look like on the wire. When I tried to use MSSoapT or TcpTrace, I got framing...

Great detail in this post on how to access network resources using the new Arm emulator in Visual Studio 2005. http://blogs.msdn.com/cbrochu/archive/2005/11/04/ppcinternet.aspx

Ron sat down with John Evdemon (Architecture team) and Paul Andrew (Windows Workflow Foundation) in his Webcast today. Well worth a listen to understand how Windows Workflow Foundation can affect your architectural decisions. [via smguest ]

Sriram Krishnan has a great post introducing the SqlCeResultSet as well as a demo of how to use it. Here is a snippet of the article: What is a ResultSet (SqlCeResultSet)? Think of a ResultSet as something that gives you the programmatic ease that...

Check out the sessions from this year's Professional Developers Conference, hosted online . I just started downloading some of the WCF sessions that I missed. [via Mike Swanson ]

If you didn't attend PDC05 this year and missed the COM200 - Applications and Communications Roadmap: Platforms Presents and Futures session from PDC 05, you can view it online . In the session, Don Box and Mike Vernal walk through some interesting WCF...

We have been working towards the updated Service Providers site for quite some time now. Congrats to Carlos, Hans, Jit, Wolf, Jono, Ted, and especially Stephen Jendro for the hard work in getting this site live.

Yes, Wally, it is that time of year again (forward to minute 35:43). The Friday after Thanksgiving is the time when the Evans clan celebrates a fun family tradition. We visit a local tree farm, drink some hot cocoa, take a hay ride, and we cut down...

WSDL.exe in .NET 2.0 has a great addition, the capability to specify all of the documents for the tool in an XML file rather than in the command line. For instance, if you use schema imports, you need to provide the schemas at the command line: wsdl...

I sent an email trying to explain to a customer why their SOAP packet was not being processed correctly. In effect, the problem was that an element that was supposed to be bound to http://tempuri.org was redefining its namespace binding using xmlns="...