Reckless

My new blog

rdias — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 11:02:00 GMT

.... hey everyone. I have a new blog

http://68bomber.blogspot.com/.

Systems Management Server 2003 SP2 (Beta)

rdias — Thu, 04 Aug 2005 21:20:00 GMT

I've been in this job for only a few weeks man, and we have already had 3 rollouts of bits to the public. Too cool.

The SMS 2003 SP2 (Beta) Program Is Open For Enrollment

Evaluate Systems Management Server 2003 SP 2 (Beta) which is a rollup of hotfixes and new functionality to increase system manageability, security, reliability, and performance. SP2 provides a more complete integration with Microsoft Update, simplifies the deployment of software update bundles, adds further integration with Active Directory by discovering security groups, supports fully qualified domain names, and reduces the need for site resets when applying hotfixes. Nominate yourself and get started now!

What's next?

rdias — Tue, 28 Jun 2005 22:04:00 GMT

I just finished my assessment of our CSI track at Tech Ed, and the work done by everyone payed off! Kudos to all of the speakers and staff for pulling through. I wish that I could have been there to educate and learn with you.

Tell me if you think otherwise, but I believe the format for the track went over quite successfully. I am bummed that I didn't have an opportunity to get first hand feedback. I have received email from a few of you saying thank you etc. If you have any other feedback, let us know.

These are some of my take aways:

You get Web services and don't need to learn the basics any more. You like the idea of learning incrementally about Web services through other solutions oriented talks. Web services are a core part of your toolkit
You want to focus on the APIs in Whidbey that make your life better and easier and you want to learn about the next generation APIs provided by Indigo
Don Box continues to inspire you and his talk on MetaData was a piece of art
WSE 3.0 simplifies your life - Thank you for giving us MTOM, where is reliable messaging!
BizTalk is compelling and it makes no sense to build your own workflow and business process solutions

Yumay pointed me to the following article by Roger Sessions this morning. It is nice to see folks recognizing the power of our tooling and simplicity in our guidance for building Connected Systems.

So What's Next? I have been asking myself this for the past half year. We have a powerful next generation infrastructure coming down the pipe, we have powerful business process integration story, ... what about systems management? Well, we actually have a good story, but it seems as if a lot of people in the Connected Systems world don't know about it. Prior to Tech Ed, I spoke with Fred Chong who is working on best practices in this space. I also spoke with our Windows Server team. All of this led to my acceptance of a job on the Window Server team. So, I am off to learn a new audience, gather new requirements, and help drive our success in the world of systems management.

Wish me luck...

Personal: The Dias Mobile

rdias — Tue, 28 Jun 2005 21:46:00 GMT

I wrote the following piece with my brother Mark as my editor. We wanted it to be published in the Los Gatos Weekly in our home town in California, but unfortunately, you can only submit dry obituaries. So here goes... a very personal post:

The Dias Mobile

Mom was Retro, a cool hip lady without trying. There she was (pin curls, polyester slacks, and a smile that melted all hearts) making the rounds: Daves Avenue School, Fischer Junior High School, St. Mary’s, and finally, Los Gatos High. In the backseat, the teenagers were slinking down so as not to be seen as she drove right through the crowds of high schoolers too proud to notice their inescapable embarrassment of that 1966 Plymouth Valiant. I learned to love that car and all it represented. I’d take it with the hole in the floor of the backseat and the 20s, 30s, and 40s music coming through the center speaker on the dash. Yes, it was aged, but always motoring, its reliability surpassed all of the newer flashier vehicles.

Mom didn’t need money, she didn’t need flash, she had friends, family, and an over abundance of love. That car, like her life, was always full of people and was forever in motion working for others never complaining about the lack of rest. She never missed a game and always volunteered to drive the players. That car could be spotted at St. Mary’s church, family functions, bridge, Safeway, and at times you could see it pulled to the side of the road with children being reprimanded with threats of the rosary. Pies, clam dip, blue cheese dressing were the most common items in the trunk on their way to her sister Priscilla Anne’s house or to any other destination in Mom’s vast network of friends.

Dinnertime at the Dias household was at 6:00 PM, and it was an occasion celebrated by all. Mom would saunter outside, cowbell in hand, and shout her daily mantra, "Kids, time for dinner!". The clanging of that old-rusty cowbell could be heard for blocks. The entire neighborhood knew it was time for the Dias’ and any other neighborhood straggler to eat. The dinner table, an elongated slab with a decorative tablecloth draped over it, would fill up with the bustle of the Dias clan (and guests), each one yelling in harmonious disaccord to pass the butter, or some other condiment. Six different conversations were not uncommon when it was time to eat. As one friend described it, it was like "eating in a cafeteria".

The day before she passed, I reminded her that she was well loved. And she was. She passed peacefully in her own bed with two loved ones standing nearby. She was an incredible lady whose strength and determination not only allowed her to survive a near fatal brain tumor, but the crazy life of raising fourteen children. The Dias family lived in Los Gatos for over 40 years.

Janice Claire Frier Dias was born October 11th, 1927. She died June 4, 2006 at around 7:50 pm.

Her legacy:

Wife of 57 years to Arthur James Dias
Mother of 14
Grandmother of 31
Great-Grandmother of 7

The Story of the Slant-Six Plymouth Valiant:

The Slant-Six Plymouth Valiant represented mom in all its simplicity. It was purchased in 1968 by her sister Priscilla. Pris used the car for several years, and then sold it to mom. Mom subsequently enjoyed the use of the car for several more years. There came a time when Mom was, however, concerned about transportation for her children as the learned how to drive. Andy, the first-born of the sons purchased the car from Mom for a small fee, and in turn, he sold it to Mark, the fourth child, for a few hundred dollars. Mark did not take care of the car, and he was not too concerned if he backed into a pole or some other obstruction in his path leaving various dents on the white exterior of the car. He destroyed the car, and so, frustrated by the car’s lack of continued utility, he gave the car (free of charge) to his younger brother Matthew, the auto mechanic. Matthew repaired the car, and he sold the car back to mom for twice the value Andy sold it to Mark. Mom then enjoyed the use of it for many more years to come, and the slant-six Valiant and Mom became inextricably linked, and wherever you found that old but dependable car, there you would also find Mom.

WSE based Reliable Message

rdias — Mon, 27 Jun 2005 21:27:00 GMT

Hey everyone, George Copeland just published the reliable messaging implementation built on the WSE 3.0 community technology preview bits. It is not supported; however, should provide a great baseline for folks that need standardized rm.

Check it out and let us know your thoughts on it.

New WSE Blogger

rdias — Fri, 20 May 2005 19:05:00 GMT

Nathan has been posting code tidbits on WSE.

MetaData Metaphor

rdias — Fri, 20 May 2005 00:04:00 GMT

I have been spending an enormous amount of time preparing folks for Tech Ed and my corresponding talk. This morning I invited my colleague, Pete McKiernan, into my office to show him my slides on MetaData. We were laughing about the challenges associated with making people understand what MetaData is and why it is so interesting. I showed him my metaphor, which you will have to come to Tech Ed to hear, and he made up one on the fly. A good metaphor should never be wasted, so I figured I'd blog it.

Everyone knows what SWF stands for. MetaData exists in your mind helping to establish the meaning for the individual letters/words. (If you have been married for some time, you may be ignorant to the ways of the dating world. SWF = Single White Female)

What is the MetaData that brings context to these three words that your brain has automatically mapped?

<marriedStatus> single <marriedStatus>

<race> white </race>

<gender> female </gender>

</myProfile>

Most people are so familiar with SWF that they automatically know that the words that the acronym stands for describe characteristics of a person.

The metadata surrounding the words brings a sense of context for the person who's not familiar with the acronym. But what if you just saw the words 'single,' 'white,' and 'female,' each in isolation?

For instance, if you just saw the word 'Single,' what would you think?

What about 'White'? Perhaps you would think about the abscence of color.

What if you just saw 'Female'? Would that mean that you are one or that you are looking for one?

Metadata helps bring context to otherwise meaningless data.

Planning your Tech Ed Experience Right

rdias — Tue, 17 May 2005 23:44:00 GMT

Tech Ed is around the corner. I wanted to provide you an update on the distributed systems portion of Connected Systems Infrastructure track.

The track will be kicked off with a strategic briefing on Microsoft’s connected systems strategy by Charles Fitzgerald. The concept of the office has morphed over the course of the past ten years. Information Workers require connectivity to their corporate services and data while they work and socialize in coffee shops, airports, their homes, on trains, or wherever they may be. Virtual Private Networks are no longer sufficient for facilitating access to critical systems and can often hinder productivity in this faced paced world. People need and want secure, direct access to file-servers, email systems, internal and partner systems through smart client applications and devices. Paralleled with this is the need to connect business partners regardless of geography or bandwidth limitations and for those business partners to be able to establish electronic trust relationships. Foreseeing this demand, Microsoft has been investing in the platform with comprehensive tooling and guidance to enable our customers to build, deploy, maintain, and enhance powerful systems that take advantage of this new age of universal network connectivity. Charles will be discussing these and other industry movements while disclosing Microsoft’s strategy to enable our customer’s to build The Application of the Future.

The Business Process Integration team and the Distributed Systems Group have joined forces this year to educate our customers on Microsoft’s Connected Systems products and technologies. The track is segmented into two virtual tracks. The Distributed Systems (DSG) virtual track which focuses on building applications with the core technologies on the .NET Framework with a special focus on Web services technologies and the Business Process Integration (BPI) virtual track which covers our Host Integration Server, BizTalk Server, and Commerce Server products. For information on the BPI virtual track, see Scott Woodgate’s blog entry here.

The CSI/DSG virtual track is 100% solutions focused and will provide critical training based on best practices for architects, developers and IT Operators. We have an exceptional line-up of internal and external speakers communicating our roadmap and covering the basics to advanced topics for building connected systems following service-oriented design concepts on the .NET Framework today.

Connected Systems Infrastructure Track

Abstract: Connected Systems are becoming pervasive as a result of current economic and technological drivers for companies to be more agile, drive down costs, and integrate heterogeneous, globally dispersed systems. New applications no longer live in single process or machine silos. Applications need to be designed to be a part of a connected network of services to build systems that span multiple machines and reach beyond corporate firewalls. Also, in order to increase an organization's agility when responding to market and changing strategic requirements, the information flow between services that carry out these business operations must be streamlined.

The Connected Systems Infrastructure track is designed to help you understand how to design, implement, secure, deploy, and manage connected systems on the Microsoft platform for automating your companies information flow to achieve streamlined operations and greater levels of business agility. Architects, Developers, and IT Operators will learn about our existing and next generation distributed systems technologies for building Connected Systems covering the Windows Server System, Visual Studio .NET and the .NET Framework (ASP.NET, MSMQ, .NET Remoting, Enterprise Services, WSE), business process management with BizTalk Server, integration of IBM mainframe and midrange systems with Host Integration Server, integration of retail systems with Commerce Server, and our unified messaging infrastructure for Longhorn, Indigo.

Strategic Briefing:

Title: Connected Systems: Applications of the Future

Speaker: Charles Fitzgerald

Date/Time: Monday, June 6 3:15 PM - 4:30 PM Room: N 310 A

Abstract: Connected systems are the new application in a service-oriented world. They connect people, information, systems and devices amidst dynamic business conditions. This general session highlights how businesses today are using Web services to adapt to change, accelerate business results and amplify the impact of their people. Learn how other companies are using the latest Microsoft platform software to drive their business and understand the broad Microsoft strategy for connected systems. Understand what connected systems mean for developers, architects, IT professionals and information workers and understand the key enablers for connected systems, including Web services, smart clients, identity management and data management and analysis.

CSI/DSG Breakout Sessions:

Session	Timeslot	Session Title	Abstract	Speaker	Audience
CSI241	Mon, June 6 10:45 AM - 12:00 PM Room: S 220 E	Connected Systems technologies and the .NET Framework, When to use What?	Microsoft offers a variety of programming models that you can use to build connected applications: System.Messaging, Enterprise Services, .NET Remoting, ASP.NET Web Services, and WSE (to name a few). In this talk, you will learn how to choose the right programming model for your scenarios. We will present clear and simple guidance you can use to make these choices. We’ll explain the tradeoffs the guidance embody, in areas ranging from ease-of-use and manageability to versioning, performance, and reach. Rather than just telling you what to use, we intend that you’ll come away from the understanding why we offer this guidance and when it applies to you.	Steve Swartz	Arch, Dev
CSI240	Mon, June 6 1:30 PM - 2:45 PM Room: S 220 E	Introduction to Web Services	Web services are becoming the foundation for building distributed applications. This session explains the fundamental concepts of Web services and explores the .NET Framework’s Web services platform. You will learn the key components of the Web services architecture and the steps for creating and consuming Web services using Visual Studio .NET.	Yasser Shohoud	Dev, Arch
CSI455	Mon, June 6 3:15 PM - 4:30 PM Room: S 210 B	Programming with System.Net v2.0: API’s You Need to Quickly Build Robust Network Applications	Learn the System.NET classes in v2.0 of the .NET Framework that enable application developers to take advantage of the latest improvements in Windows networking. Drill into specific networking API's for the new features coming down the pipe for email, Web support, security and network awareness. Learn how to build your own Web server with the new HTTP Listener, how to access remote file systems with FTP, about the improvements securing socket communication, and about SMTP for email communication.	Durgaprasad Gorti	Dev
CSI351	Mon, June 6 5:00 PM - 6:15 PM Room: S 220 E	Making sense of Web Services and Microsoft’s Roadmap	Web services walk with a slew of acronyms, specifications, and new vocabulary that can make ones head spin. Regardless of whether you are a Web, Client, Office, VB, or C# developer, this new wave of technology is a must have in your toolset. This session takes a step back and helps you decipher the core concepts behind Web Services Architecture and how these technologies empower you to build Connected Systems. You will walk away from this session with a clear understanding of the Web services protocols and Microsoft’s plans for implementation.	Rebecca Dias	Arch, Dev
CSI352	Tues, June 7 10:45 AM - 12:00 PM Room: N 310 A	What's New for Web Services Developers in Visual Studio 2005 and the .NET Framework 2.0	ASP.NET Web services (AKA, ASMX) allow you to build interoperable service endpoints quickly and easily through a declarative programming model. Discover how the .NET Framework 2.0 supports interoperability across heterogeneous systems by providing rich support for the WS-I Basic Profile across the underlying infrastructure and tools. Learn how the .NET Framework 2.0 expands the supporting infrastructure for Web services by providing a flexible hosting model and network-related metadata. Learn how the .NET Framework 2.0 provides custom serialization and type generation by exposing extensibility points to developers for a higher degree of control.	John Bristowe	Arch, Dev
CSI349	Tues, June 7 1:30 PM - 2:45 PM Room: S 310 G	Beyond the Wizards – A Practical Approach to Web Services Security with WSE	Early adopters of Web services technology relied on SSL as a fallback implementation for security, handling message integrity and privacy. But securing Web services is a multi-faceted problem that requires the implementation of sound IT infrastructure and secured communications across all boundaries - which should include the employment of emerging Web services standards and the appropriate .NET architecture. This session will explain the purpose of WS-Security and how the standards authentication, message integrity and encryption together overcome the limitations of SSL. You’ll learn how WSE 2.0 simplifies the process of securing Web services in a standards-based and interoperable way, how WS-SecurityPolicy configuration reduces the amount of code necessary to realize this goal. Demonstrations will show you how to how to customize WSE 2.0 wizard output as needed to produce a practical solution leveraging the core elements of the WS-Security standard to pass security tokens, authenticate callers, enforce security policies, and ensure the integrity and confidentiality of messages.	Michele Leroux Bustamante	Dev
CSI350	Tues, June 7 3:15 PM - 4:30 PM Room: S 220 E	What's new in Web Services Enhancements (WSE) 3.0?	WSE 2.0 considerably simplified the development and deployment of secure Web services by enabling developers to add message level security to applications built on the principles of service-orientation and the emerging Web Services (WS-*) specifications. This session details the WSE 3.0 release which adds significant new functionality including, enabling the ASMX programming model over multiple transports (e.g. http, tcp), substantially improved security policy to enable common security messaging scenarios, MTOM for message attachments, interoperability with Indigo and conformance to the latest WS specifications. Based around the themes of Visual Studio 2005 integration, cross platform interoperability and standards support, WSE 3.0 release continues to provide a productive and easy to use platform for developing secure web services today.	Mark Fussell	Dev
CSI360	Tues, June 7 5:00 PM - 6:15 PM Room: S 210 E	Not Really Complicated Asynchronous Messaging Techniques and Technologies	Asynchronous messaging is as powerful as it is difficult. Part of the difficulty is that while they are good tools in the Windows platform today, Windows has a tendency to hide them quite well. The fast and reliable asynchronous messaging technology MSMQ ships with every copy of Windows (including Windows XP Home) and is yet largely ignored by developers. The “Web Service Enhancements” (WSE) extension for ASP.NET Web Services do an great job at providing transport-independent, asynchronous messaging support, but that again seems to be a toolset for the gurus. Communicating asynchronously opens up great possibilities to make applications run faster, make them more responsive and to dramatically increase data throughput. In this session you will learn that writing programs that have asynchronous conversations with each other instead of working in a sequential ping-pong fashion isn’t all that difficult and you will see that your programs don’t need to look entirely awkward if you embrace this style of shaping applications.	Clemens Vasters	Arch, Dev
CSI353	Wed, June 8 8:30 AM - 9:45 AM Room: N 310 A	Top ten hands-on tips and tricks for implementing ASP.NET Web Services	With any software, there's the theory and the practice. ASP.NET Web services have been around for almost 5 years now and a lot of lessons have been learned about how to use it effectively. This talk presents concrete tips for building applications that expose services and the clients that consume them. Topics include how to handle complex data types, including results from database queries, the share types across multiple services, how to control the details of your service contract from code without writing WSDL, how to stream data in and out of a service and more. This is a must attend talk for anyone struggling with tough ASMX issues.	Tim Ewald	Dev
CSI356	Wed, June 8 10:15 AM - 11:30 AM Room: S 210 E	Metadata Soup: Contracts, Models, and Types	The web service wave of technologies have made machine-readable descriptions of code and deployed systems both more widespread and more useful. This session looks at the myriad ways to describe and model distributed systems and services. Topics to be covered include contract-first development, validation and testing, code generation techniques, and the usual gang of three and four letter acronyms: WSDL, ASMX, SDM, XSD, XML, WMI, IMS, MDF and (yes) RDF.	Don Box	Dev, Arch
CSI443	Wed, June 8 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM Room: N 310 H	Advanced Serialization	If you write distributed applications, you use serialization (although you may not know it). This talk will focus on the internal workings of the serialization engines that ship in the .Net Framework and what techniques you can use to get the best results for your applications.	Doug Purdy	Dev
CSI344	Wed, June 8 3:45 PM - 5:00 PM Room: S 320 G	Versioning services and contracts on the .NET Framework	As Web services continue to become the backbone of our connected systems, developers must plan for the profound ways the messages and their contracts will evolve. Failure to plan for this unavoidable evolution will result in increased maintenance and support costs over the life of the system. Unfortunately, there are a few issues with the .NET Framework 1.x that prevent the implementation of a robust versioning strategy for Web services. After briefly going over these issues, this session will cover the changes in the .NET Framework 2.0 that address these issues. We'll also discuss the goals and rationale behind a solid versioning strategy and things developers can do now in 1.x and in 2.0 to make their versioning transition to Indigo smoother.	Don Smith	Dev and Arch
CSI354	Wed, June 8 5:30 PM - 6:45 PM Room: N 310 A	Web Services Interoperability	Web Services offer a vision of interoperability between multiple platforms, applications and vendors. But what is the reality? What are the tips and tricks for developing seamless Web Services between Microsoft .NET, IBM WebSphere and BEA WebLogic? How are vendors contributing to the WS-* process, and what does this mean to you? In this session we’ll be answering these questions and more – showing the promise of interoperability using Web Services and discussing best practices for implementing these in your own applications.	Simon Guest; Gurpreet Pall	Dev
CSI345	Thurs, June 9 8:30 AM - 9:45 AM Room: N 220 A	Troubleshooting Connected Systems on the .NET Framework	This talk will walk you through the best tips and tricks for monitoring what your ASMX, ES, and MSMQ app is – or isn’t quite – doing after deployment, and how to use this information for fine-tuning it. You’ll learn the approaches that help you control what’s happening in your datacenter, and also get some insights into how Indigo is approaching the configuration, troubleshooting and monitoring problem space.	Shy Cohen; Richard Turner	Dev, IT Pro
CSI358	Thurs, June 9 10:15 AM - 11:30 AM Room: S 220 E	Introducing System.Transactions and new Features	.NET 1.1 offered developers two transactional programming models: explicit local transaction management or declarative use of the DTC via Enterprise Services. Both models have their advantages: the first is straightforward and the second supports distribution and integration with Enterprise Services. However, both have disadvantages and neither one is superior to the other in every respect. Version 2.0 of the .NET framework introduces an exciting new transactional programming model available in the System.Transactions namespace which offers the advantages of both models while separating the programming model from the transaction management, and even enabling distribution without changes to the application code. This talk starts by briefly describing the traditional programming models and the motivation for the new model, then presenting System.Transactions, its features and its promoting capabilities, and some advance features such as concurrency management and cloning.	Juval Lowy	Arch, Dev
CSI359	Thurs, June 9 1:30 PM - 2:45 PM Room: S 210 B	Retry, Abort, Cancel? Appropriate Handling of Transaction Failures in Connected Systems Application Code.	Transaction technology solely exists for a single reason: Stuff happens to fail every so often. However, while transaction technology has been around for quite a while and an increasing number of people is “seeing the light”, many applications are not doing a particularly good job at dealing with transactions that actually do fail. In fact, most applications that use transactions have no mechanism to figure out whether a transaction has actually failed and if they do, the often resort to punting the problem to the user instead of making any effort to fix these issues automatically. Especially with distributed transactions, a transaction might indeed fail several seconds or minutes after any user-level code has executed and the program has forgotten about the fact that the transaction has ever executed. In this session you will learn about many reasons for why transactions might fail, we will look at bullet-proof techniques to learn about the outcome of transactions and about how to act on that information and you will also learn about techniques that make it embarrassingly easy to deal with and automatically recover from temporary causes for transaction failures such as high lock contention and deadlocks.	Clemens Vasters	Arch, Dev
CSI357	Thurs, June 9 3:15 PM - 4:30 PM Room: S 320 G	My Home is my Castle: Hosting Applications - Why you care about Threads, AppDomains, and Processes	Is a console app not enough for my 24/7 app? Some think that implementing and testing core code is enough for running today's modern applications. A good process model and hosting environment is a fundamental base for reliable, secure, and robust applications. Windows and .NET provide a number of choices for hosting including Enterprise Services/COM+, ASMX/IIS, MSMQ, SQL Server, or a custom application like a Windows Service. In this session we will investigate the advantages and disadvantages of each process model and give guidance on which of them is the best choice for your problem. We will talk about reliability, monitoring, security and other core topics impacted by your choice of hosting models. In essence, we talk about threads, application domains, and processes - and why you should care. Because there is more to a successful application than just '.EXE'.	Christian Weyer	Dev and Arch
CSI346	Fri, June 10 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM Room: N 310 H	Designing Connected Applications with the .NET Framework and an eye on the future.	Ask yourself a question. Are you or have you considered building applications with WebMethods, WSE, .NET Remoting, Enterprise Services, and/or System.Messaging? If you answered yes, take our word for it, someday you’ll want to be building those same sorts of applications with Indigo. You need some advice today to smooth the transition between now and then. Fortunately, there is this talk, and that’s what it’s about. We talk about the ideas that motivate Indigo, and how you can apply them to your existing designs. We talk about architectural and development practices that are salutary in any case, but will be particularly beneficial when you decide to co-exist with and/or evolve to Indigo.	Doug Purdy	Arch
CSI347	Fri, June 10 10:45 AM - 12:00 PM Room: N 220 A	Building Distributed Applications Today with an Eye on the Future	Are you, or have you considered building applications with ASMX, WSE, .NET Remoting, Enterprise Services, and/or System.Messaging? If your answer is yes, take our word for it, someday you'll want to be building those same sorts of applications with Indigo. You need some advice today to smooth the transition between now and then. In this session, we discuss the ideas that motivate Indigo, and how you can apply them to your existing designs. We talk about architectural and development practices that are salutary in any case, but will be particularly beneficial when you decide to co-exist with and/or evolve to Indigo.	Steve Swartz	Dev
CSI448	Fri, June 10 1:00 PM - 2:15 PM Room: N 220 A	Optimizing Scalability, Performance and Availability with Systems Built on the .NET Framework	Creating and operating distributed and service-oriented applications provides new challenges for scalability, performance and availability. In this session, you will learn the performance and scalability implications of technologies like ASP.NET Web Services, .NET Remoting, Enterprise Services, MSMQ, and the Web Services Enhancements (WSE). This session helps you to gauge the differences in performance and scalability between certain technologies and to establish a strong technical foundation for your own applications. In addition to this, you will also learn how you can take advantage of availability- and throughput-increasing features which are built right into the Windows Server operating system. Or did you know that creating a failover and load-balancing cluster with Windows Server System takes only about 15 mouse clicks without the need for special hardware?	Ingo Rammer	Dev and Arch

Cabana: The Cabana enables attendees to socialize and have whiteboard discussions with the experts. After all of the talks, speakers will be available in the Cabana areas to have drill-down discussion on topics covered in their talk or topics of customer’s choice.

Pavilion Presence: The DSG virtual track will have two booths at the event

Station # 33 .NET Framework: WSE, ASMX, MSMQ, Enterprise Services, and .NET Remoting

Abstract: Looking to build mission critical applications and services today? Come and get your questions answered on the options you can use to build, deploy and manage connected applications and services today using ASMX, WSE, MSMQ, Enterprise Services, and .NET Remoting.

Station # 35 .NET Framework: Indigo

Abstract: What is “Indigo” and how does it impact the way you think about connected systems development today and in the future? Come and learn how ASMX, WSE, MSMQ, Enterprise Services, and .NET Remoting are unified as a unified framework for building interoperable, secure, reliable, and transacted services on the .NET Framework in the “Longhorn” timeframe.

Hands on Labs:

CSI14 Web Services Enhancements v2.0: Security and Policy

Learn how to secure Web services without writing code, how to author security policies, and how to leverage the WSE programming model to secure you Web services. Learn how to write your own authorization models and how to sign and encrypt message parts using WS-Security. For extra credit, learn how to negotiate down to a Security Context Token for lighter conversations between two established parties.

CSI15 Hello world with the Indigo Programming Model

This lab provides you with an introduction to Indigo, Microsoft’s next generation connected system development tool. Learn how easy it will be to build a simple service-oriented application. Explore how to implement and version data contracts and one-way messaging.

CSI16 Using System.Transaction to Write Reliable Applications

This lab shows you how to use System.Transaction to improve the reliability of any type of application. Learn how to keep in-memory collection classes (like hashtable) in an always consistent state, across faults and errors. See how different types of resources, such as collection classes, database and remote components, easily integrate within a transaction to ensure consistency across all these resources.

CSI17 Creating a Transacted Resource Using System.Transaction

In this lab, learn how to write a simple in-memory resource manager that integrates with System.Transaction. Learn how to enlist your resource manager with the Lightweight Transaction Manager, and how to react to commit and abort notifications.

CSI18 Queued Applications with System.Messaging

This lab teaches you how to use System.Messaging to perform various Message Queuing tasks. Learn how to create and use a queue, as well as how to do transactional, secure and HTTP Messaging.

CSI19 Using .NET Remoting

Learn how to create and consume .NET Remoting clients and servers using Visual Studio 2005 and .NET Framework 2.0. In addition to the basic of .NET Remoting, the new features in .NET Remoting for .NET Framework 2.0 will be utilized, including the secure TcpChannel and the new IpcChannel for same-box communications. This lab is a must for existing .NET Remoting developers looking for features to improve their existing .NET Remoting applications.

CSI20 How to Use Enterprise Services through the .NET Framework

This lab introduces you to Enterprise Services, which makes COM+ services available to your .NET applications. In this exercise, create a class library and console test application using Visual Basics .NET or Visual C#. Further, the exercise shows you how to use Transaction, Object Pooling, and Just-in-Time Activation services of COM+.

CSI21 Creating and Using Web Services with Visual Basic or C# Using Visual Studio 2005 and the .NET Framework 2.0

This lab shows you how to create your first Web service and then extend it to use complex data types using Visual Studio .NET and perform initial testing of the Web service. Also, learn how to create simple and asynchronous client applications using Visual Studio.

CSI22 Web Services Enhancements v2.0 Messaging

Learn how to incorporate WS-Addressing and the use of intermediaries in your Web services applications using WSE's lightweight messaging infrastructure. Learn how to do basic one-way and request/response messaging with the messaging APIs over multiple transports. For extra credit, learn how to build your own peer to peer instant messaging program.

Birds of a Feather Sessions:

BOF020 Contract-First Web Services: Step-by-Step

Day/Time: Tuesday, June 7 7:45 PM - 8:45 PM Room: S 321

Speaker(s): Aaron Skonnard

Session Type(s): Birds of a Feather

Join Tim Ewald and Aaron Skonnard for an engaging discussion on the merits of contract-first development techniques using ASMX and WSE today. We discuss the various concepts and issues surrounding contract-first development, the motivation for using it (revolving primarily around increased interoperability and simplified versioning), and the current tool situation. Then we cover practical step-by-step techniques for employing contract-first development using today's tools including those found in the .NET Framework, Visual Studio .NET (including Whitehorse), and those provided by third-parties such as WSCF, which fill the remaining voids. A hybrid technique is also presented that offers a nice compromise between interop and productivity given the current tool situation.

BOF030 Preparing for Indigo

Day/Time: Tuesday, June 7 9:00 PM - 10:00 PM Room: S 321

Speaker(s): Juval Lowy

Session Type(s): Birds of a Feather

Indigo is the next generation application connectivity and services from Microsoft, superseding the variety of .NET connectivity solutions available today: ASMX Web services, Remoting and Enterprise Services. Since the .NET debut some five years ago, all three technologies have been inundated in either hype or misconceptions. Come discuss with Juval Lowy, a software legend and Indigo insider, how to best prepare for Indigo, and what Indigo means for your career, business, and the industry as a whole.

BOF032 Migrating ASMX to Indigo

Day/Time: Wednesday, June 8 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM Room: Track Cabana 02

Speaker(s): Aaron Skonnard

Session Type(s): Birds of a Feather

This session hones in on the Indigo migration story, focusing primarily on the technical details of moving your existing ASMX code-base forward. We also look at where WSE 2.0 and WSE 3.0 fit into the overall migration picture, and provide guidance on how to best position today's systems for the future of Indigo.

InfoCard - WEEE HA

rdias — Fri, 13 May 2005 23:05:00 GMT

Yesterday, Kim Cameron and John Shewchuck disclosed Microsoft's strategy for a unified identity metasystem based on the Web services protocols, WS-*. Check out Scott Mace's transcript of Kim's talk on the 7 laws of identity and an articles on ZDNet.

InfoCard in my mind is a killer app for the WS-Security family of specifications. It will make telling the Web services story much easier.

WS-* and Liberty shake hands

rdias — Fri, 13 May 2005 22:48:00 GMT

Steve Ballmer and Scott McNealy gave a press briefing this morning to discuss the new interoperability profile that will enable single sign-on to work for customers building on both the Web services protocols and Liberty.