Web service developers are often using virtual servers to setup a virtual netwrk of services. Well now you can get Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 for free . -Matt

Mark Fussell discusses a common problem when using WSE 3.0 and Kerberos security . He answers the following question: I need advice with WSE 3.0 and implementing a web service that requires a Kerberos token. It seems that my simple web service and Windows client should be straight-forward but I’m...

Kirill Gavrylyuk and Jorgen Thelin talk about the WCF interop Plug-Fest on Channel 9 where WS-* implementations from different vendors are tested to make sure they work with one another. Don't miss it. -Matt

William Tay just published the second article in a two part series on WCF over on The ServerSide.NET. This one on Securing WCF Services . Check it out. -Matt

If you haven't already heard, the WinFX January CTP released a couple days ago. You can find more information here . -Matt

We just posted an update to the WS-ReliableMessaging sample code that George Copeland wrote that works with the RTM bits of WSE 3.0. George posted his original code with the initial CTP release of WSE 3.0. The new version works with the RTM versions of the .NET Framework 2.0 and WSE 3.0. -Matt

It's available! Get the final release of WSE 3.0 today. You also want to check out the updated Hands on Labs on messaging and security . -Matt

On Monday, November 7th, Microsoft will launch Visual Studio 2005, SQL Server 2005 and BizTalk Server 2006. This is the first in long series of product launches from Microsoft over the coming year that will culminate in the release of Windows Vista. Of course you will want a released version of WSE...

The Oasis standards body created a technical committee today to finalize WS-Trust, WS-SecureConversation and WS-SecurityPolicy. It's name: The Web Services Secure Exchange Technical Committee. This is the final step in the Workshop Process to get these Web services specs standardized. For more info...

Yasser Shohoud, Program Manager on the Windows Communication Foundation team, introduces the concept of WCF Channels which provides a mechanism for plugging in different transports for passing your WCF messages around on. -Matt

The latest Community Technology Preview of Web Services Enhancements 3.0 is now available. Yes, it is the October WSE 3.0 CTP . This will be the last CTP before the final release in November. Be sure and let us know of any problems in the Product Feedback Center . -Matt

Richard Turner and Payam Shodjai talk about the Windows Communication Foundation (you know, Indigo) on PodcastStudio.net . They talk about the Indigo Roadshow (one more date today and one more on Wednesday) and what they are telling people about WCF. -Matt

MSN felt that they reached critical mass with their technologies for developers so during PDC they launched the MSN Developer Center . Included in their offering of developer technologies are Web services interfaces to MSN Search and MSN Virtual Earth. Be sure and check them out. -Matt

If you didn't make it down to PDC in Los Angeles, or if you did and would still like to see the final slides and/or sample code from the presentations, head over the public Commnet web site (Commnet is the event Web site that is usually only accessible to attendees -- but not this year). Although it...

It's always fun to see how Microsoft gears up for the PDC . Here at MSDN we are scrambling like mad to stay on top of all the different technologies that are being announced and have content around them that need to be published simultaneously with one or another keynote. I'll be heading down to LA myself...

What a mouthful! That's right, we've changed our name, our layout and what we talk about. The MSDN Web Services Developer Center is now the MSDN Web Services and Other Distributed Technologies Developer Center . Please accept my apologies for the senseless waste of pixels required for our new name...

Two problems were found with the just published WSE 3.0 July CTP . 1. The Add Web Reference feature in the July CTP version of Visual Studio 2005 does not generate a WSE enabled proxy. To work around the problem, modify the generated proxy base class from System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol...

The WSE team has put out an update to their earlier WSE 3.0 technical preview, but before you rush out and install it be aware that the new WSE 3.0 July CTP REQUIRES the July CTP of .NET Framework 2.0 or the July CTP of Visual Studio 2005. The July CTPs of the .NET Framework and Visual Studio are only...

One of the most common questions I'm getting here at TechEd is, "What's new in WSE 3.0?" The single biggest answer is that it is completely integrated with Whidbey (Visual Studio 2005 and the .NET Framework 2.0). You are required to have the .NET Framework 2.0 installed to install the technical preview...

I'm currently workin' the booth at Tech Ed USA here in Orlando, Florida. I'm spending a bunch of my time here at booth # 33 in the Microsoft Pavillion. We are in the booth that discusses the current technologies of the .NET Framework for writing distributed applications which includes: Web services ...

Today we released a Community Technical Preview of WSE 3.0 . Check out the release notes for details on what is new. We also made some changes to the WSE page on the MSDN Web Services Developer Center that should make it a lot easier to use and a bit more appealing. The verb we used to describe these...

Yesterday we published two articles on the concepts of a federated identity metasystem on the MSDN Web Services Developer Center. Today we took the next step -- we published two new Web service specifications: Web Single Sign-On Interoperability Profile and Web Single Sign-On Metadata Exchange Protocol...

Who? Who? Who? Who? Today we published two articles Identity on the MSDN Web Services Developer Center. These are very interesting reads since they define the context of Identity systems ( The Laws of Identity ) and then provide the general vision on how the identity problem can be solved ( Microsoft...

Some of you may be familiar with the MSDN Product Feedback Center that has been used to allow the users of the Visual Studio 2005 betas to file bugs and submit product suggestions. Our general plan is that this capability will be provided for any number of developer products, but we are rolling this...

At the risk of being accused of stalking, I've got another Ari link on Indigo for everyone. This time in my favorite web medium: text (as opposed to streaming video). http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2005/mar05/03-16WebServicesPreview.asp Now if someone will only sell his used brain monitors...