Chris Kinsman comments: I have been looking at both but I have yet to see a compelling treatise that indicates why/how a non-RPC model makes sense. Folks talk about it but I have yet to see .NET code that doesn't just give lip service to messaging but...

Tim observes I think one of the reasons that the RPC model still dominates many people's thinking is that we really haven't gone beyond the HTTP binding defined in the first SOAP spec. Agreed. Recently I observed two phenomena that might well be the...

It's finally out . This addedndum to SwA proposes solutions to the two key problems with SwA : - How are attachments referenced so that they are included in the message infoset and so that MIME headers do not pose a security threat. - How does an end...

I'm here in SLC, UT attending the WS-I Basic Profile WG meeting. We've done a lot of work on BP 1.0, it's really close. I'm sitting next to Jorgen and Keith keeps mistakingly referring to Jorgen as Yasser :-) There's also been a lot of sample app interop...

I wonder what people think about the WS-I Basic Profile 1.0 in general? More specifically, what do people think about the fact that it allows document/literal and rpc/literal message formats? Do people really think we need two message formats? Sure, I...

Apparently Wrox is shutting down . I wonder if other publishers will follow and how this will affect the quality of tech books.

Custom faults in asmx...

Clemens Vasters : newtelligence should probably really join W3C and WS-I, ... I'll second that.

I just finished installing VM Ware on my tablet PC. Just for grins, I installed Windows 2000 Server as a guest. Performance is amazingly reasonable. Only one problem: When I go into full screen mode, my tablet rotates the screen automatically and I have...

Happy birthday Becky . I sure am glad to have you on the Web services team at Microsoft.

My two and a half year old son started playing Nintendo today. He can move Mario on land and in water and jump. He looks to be on track to be programming by the age of 5. I wonder what language I should teach him, C# or VB?

WS-ReliableMessaging was published this morning.

Tom Richards : I am trying to approach .NET from the point of view that I don't want to just be a coder or programmer. I have been working and studying aspects other than how to create a good winform or webform. I am more interested in how to create application...

Tim stopped by my office to chat today before he went to join Don for what looked like an all-night coding session. Although I wanted to join them badly, I had to go work on another project that'll settle a hot debate in the Web services world. These...

I've been wanting to start a real blog for a while now. I actually started one right before I joined Microsoft then I got too busy with the move etc. and it never did get off the ground. Now thanks to Scott , I have a real blog!