You don't have to encrypt the entire body of a message with WSE. You can encrypt just certain pieces. Or you can encrypt some pieces with one key and other pieces with another key. You can find code that shows you how to encrypt part of a message here...

One of the attendees here at TechEd asked me how to encrypt only one of the parameters on a WebMethod with WSE. I figured others might be curious too so here is some code that does this. Web Service code: [WebMethod] public string HelloWorld( string...

I'm currently sitting in Doug Purdy's Web services versioning talk here at TechEd. The fact that we are here with Doug reminded a few of us of his earlier talk where he philosophized on the connectivity of applications. Apparently he will be talking a...

There's a lot of excitement here at TechEd about the WSE release. I got to watch Keith Ballinger's WSE Messaging talk and Benjamin Mitchell 's WSE Security talk. Both talks had a full room. For some reason all the Connected Systems track presentations...

[Update: Adding the link - thanks Dumky] A great write-up of the WS-Federation Passive Requestor Profile Interop Workshop was posted on the Web Services Developer Center today. Passive Requestors are things like Web browsers and the WS-Federation Passive...

Here at TechEd we have created two Hands On Labs for attendees to walk through in order to get a good introductory feel of the features of the WSE 2.0. These labs are now available for everyone on the Web Services Developer Center on MSDN. Find them...

It is finally here! WSE 2.0 is now available as a free download. Coolest Feature: The policy support (WS-Policy) makes the task of creating secure messages a breeze. Not just signing and encrypting, but verifying that messages do meet the policy criterion...

I've made it down here to San Diego for TechEd and am currently sitting in a VERY comfortable couch in the developer section of the Cabanas. We have been working very hard over the past few weeks in preperation for TechEd and it is exciting to know...

The folks at 3 Leaf have an interesting timeline with the various Web service specifications laid out. This would be an excellent companion when perusing our specification index pages . They also have a resources page with a ton-o-links to Web services...

If you are an MSDN Subscriber, there is currently an offer where you can get a MapPoint Web Service account for free. Find all the details here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/productinfo/enterprise/ And if you want to become an MSDN Subscriber...

Shaun's post reminds me of two points to make about my aversion to HTML-encoding XML into strings and then returning the strings from your Web service instead of returning the XML: Web services are all about wire format and are not about what objects...

More feedback from my earlier post... ChadBr came up with the best reason I have heard so far on when you might return XML encoded as a string instead of the actual XML from a Web service. What if you don't want the overhead of creating the DOM...

My previous post on my distaste for encoding XML into strings and passing the encoded strings in the Web service message payload generated some feedback . While thinking over the possibilities for when it might be acceptable to encode XML, I came up...

At lunch today I gave blood. The lady who setup my appointment said I should make sure and pick up my 3 gallon pin (which means I've donated more than 24 times). I actually earned it at my last donation, but figured I would save them the expense of giving...

I have probably seen a half a dozen article submissions to MSDN in the last year with authors who do the following: // Bad Bad Bad [WebMethod] public string MyLameWebMethod() { XmlDocument dom = new XmlDocument(); // load some XML ... return...

Jeff put together a really compellilng presentation of the message exchanges around the Devices Profile . For those of us who want to see the XML, this is an awesome extension to his article . -Matt

Congratulations and the best of luck to the guys starting up thinktecture . This really is a very solid group of guys. And of course it is nice to note that half of the thinktecture team has or is writing content for the MSDN Web Services Developer Center...

At WinHec today Microsoft announced the publication of the Devices Profile for Web Services . This profile outlines a set of Web service specifications and contraints within those specifications that define a core set of Web service functionality that...