IRhetoric - Karsten Januszewski

Just as the event log gets a makeover, so does the registry. In this post, I will take a look at some of the work done around how to manage settings and configuration in the OS. The goal is to provide a platform for handling settings in such a way that...

The first feature I want to discuss is the new event log, a benefit to IT Pros and developers alike. The event log in Longhorn is a major update of the NT event log service. It maintains 100% backwards compatibility with the existing APIs and functionality...

The Fundamentals Pillar of Longhorn has received far less attention than the other pillars (Avalon, Indigo and WinFS). This is a shame, because the Fundamentals deserve equal, if not more, attention as the other pillars. In fact, the Fundamentals are...

My article Writing Asynchronous, Bidirectional, Stateful, Reliable Web Services with Indigo went live today on MSDN. Look forward to thoughts and feedback. I think the bidirectional features of Indigo are incredibly interesting and haven't been given...

The Architecture Series - An interesting set of talks posted to MSDN on architecture in the Longhorn wave. Would highly recommend Pat Helland's talk . If you've never seen him speak, it is worth your time. He does a great job of talking about how to implement...

If you are experimenting with ClickOnce in Longhorn, here are couple tips. First, the following article is essential: http://longhorn.msdn.microsoft.com/lhsdk/appcore/overviews/appmodel_life_cycle.aspx This page has a script you need to run on IIS to...

From http://dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/kenbrubaker/archive/2004/02/14/7265.aspx , Ken Brubaker asks some more questions about reliable messaging in Indigo: Although I will not need to keep resend logic around, won't I still need my own timeout logic...

A great post by Ken Brubaker that I wanted to address... Aren't both ASMX and Remoting equally dead-ends for services since both are basically RPC structures (i.e. Function Call) If Indigo will not look like either ASMX or Remoting, how could...

After quite a hiatus from the blogsphere, I'm back, motivated in part by other people writing about me. First, there was Kris Cells' post -- 'nuff said. Then, there was Aaron Skonnard's post that implies my absence must have greater implications for the...