Yasser Shohoud

In the past few weeks since PDC, I've been very happy with the tremendous positive response to Indigo. People are asking questions on the newsgroup and lists, publishers and authors are actively planning Indigo books, and the team is busily working towards...

We plan to make services created with VS Whidbey BP 1.0 conformant by default. However, the developer has opportunities to make the service non-conformant. For example, using SOAP encoding (adding the SoapRpcServiceAttribute) would make it non conformant...

I've installed and used both VMWare and Virtual PC on my tablet. VPC has one key advantage: It lets the guest OS use the right drivers for your hardware. VMWare installs its own drivers for things like display and network. In my case, VMWare's virtualized...

There are a couple of features in .NET 2.0 (Whidbey) that help solve the problems of dealing with large data. The two main issues with sending large data in Web service messages are: 1. working set (memory) due to buffering by the serialization engine...

I've been hearing a lot about iTunes recently so I decided to check it out. I have an mp3 player (not an iPod) so it was important to me to be able to download the music I buy in mp3 format. The iTunes download page had this statement: “iTunes...

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!

It seems like most people are unaware of the Indigo samples that shipped with the Longhorn SDK and that are available online here . There are over 40 samples covering basic services and clients, security, transactions, reliable messaging, hosting in ASP...

Last week I gave talks at two design reviews on campus. I talked about what we're doing with ASMX and WSE. Many customers were confused about what WSE was and how it relates to ASMX. So I thought it'd be useful to blog about it to help get the word out...

I just came across a statement made by a prominent industry figure about how WS-* is becoming so complex that it is not practical to implement a WS-* architecture with no tool/stack support. Well, what's wrong with relying on tools/stacks? Isn't that...

Mark is looking for some sample code for the recently released WCF RSS Toolkit . I've put the readme up here . I won't repeat the whole readme here but here's a peek at the programming model. There are several shortcuts for feeds from databases and feeds...

I'm taking some time today to work on a stream-based Web service for posting blog entries while listening to Dire Straits' Alchemy . Too bad Visual Studio doesn't have a WSDL designer.

I wonder if anyone sees a difference in putting Web services features directly into the .NET Framework vs. having those features in a separate download named Web Services Enhancements . Does anyone actually care where the feature comes from?

I'd love to meet with customers at TechEd in San Diego to discuss our technology (ASP.NET Web services, XML serialization), the issues you face, and what you'd like to see us do. I'll be there Sunday - Friday so if you want to meet send me a note at yassers...

A Common a State Machine Objects that deal with communication, e.g. sockets, usually present a state machine whose state transitions relate to allocating network resources, making or accepting connections, closing connections and aborting communication...

I just viewed a recorded lect ure by Donald Knuth named God and Computer Science. It's definitely interesting content and, in many ways, thought provoking. I agree with most of his arguments except the very first one he makes. Favorite quote: “Infinity...

I finally got LearnXmlws.com up and running again. It's now just the online home of my book and other content I produce. Now all I need to do is get my weather Web service up and running again as the code in Ken 's course depends on it.

Recently I've been getting lots of questions about moving large files (or lots of data) between a WCF service and client. The question comes in multiple forms, e.g. How do I send a file that's many GB in size from the service to the client? Should...

Christian points me at 5 WSDL designers that he's used. Of these 5 I have 2 (XML Spy and Omniopera) installed on my machine. In the end, I found myself using SlickEdit yesterday to create my Web service's WSDL. I was using SlickEdit for writing the C#...

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?

Don threw a comment at Becky and I today about not being good bloggers (we've both been slacking recently). So I thought I'd blog this:......

I ran into Keith Pleas this morning at the coffee shop. He's seriously considering setting up a blog. Yes Keith, please do it :-) I personally would like to see everyone involved with .NET have an active blog.

I came home today to find a large box waiting for me; it's my new iMac G5! This is the 20" intel dual core version and it's absolutely stunning. Now I must admit that this is my first Apple computer. My first computer was a Texas Instruments TI 99/4A...

This week is shaping up to be a big week for the Dallas MTC. Monday we have our official launch party where we expect 285 attendees from Micrsosoft and partners (we've been operational since 10/6 but we're now making it official). Then Tuesday thru Thursday...

Robert Scoble has officially joined Microsoft as a technical evangelist. It'll be fun having Robert in the Seattle area. Welcome Robert.

My VS Connections talk's slides and code are available here .