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07 November 2008
Geneva supports OASIS WS-Trust, SAML
Last week at the PDC 2008, Microsoft released the public beta of “Geneva”. “Geneva” is three things: Geneva Server. This is a security token service (STS), as defined in the OASIS WS-Trust specification. This thing issues and transforms claims, manages Read More...
05 November 2008
Connect WebSphere and Java applications to SQL Server
FYI: The MS JDBC Driver is completely tested by IBM for use with WebSphere App Server v6.1 and v7.0. From the IBM Announcement for WebSphere Application Server v7.0 : WebSphere Application Server V7.0 does not include the WebSphere Connect JDBC driver Read More...
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04 November 2008
REST in WCF: Varying response content type based on HTTP Request Headers
Damian Mehers made a comment on my blog post from April , but I felt it was worth a full reblog. Damian's used the same WCF extensibility points I used to produce some boilerplate that varies the response content type from JSON to XML, based on the Accept Read More...
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29 October 2008
It just got easier to build REST apps in .NET
The REST starter kit that we launched at PDC is now live! :: http://www.msdn.com/wcf/rest . The WCF REST Starter Kit is a set of features, Visual Studio templates, samples and guidance that help people build REST apps using WCF. WCF, part of the .NET Read More...
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24 October 2008
Microsoft joins AMQP
Microsoft joins AMQP It's very good to see this. For those that don't know, AMQP is the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol , a nascent middleware standard that describes an interoperable protocol for application messaging systems. Driven primarily by companies, Read More...
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15 October 2008
IIRF v1.2.15 is released - open source URL Rewriting on IIS6
I have previously written about IIRF . Here I go again: IIRF has now has been updated to v1.2.15. IIRF is Ionic's Isapi Rewrite Filter . It is a small, cheap, easy to use, URL rewriting ISAPI filter that combines a good price (free!) with good features. Read More...
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14 October 2008
DotNetZip revs to v1.6 – now with Unicode support
The v1.6 release of DotNetZip is now available. DotNetZip is the open source Zip Library for .NET, available at http://www.codeplex.com/DotNetZip . Major new features: Unicode support, as well as support for arbitrary code pages. Now you can build zip Read More...
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13 October 2008
Eclipse tools for Silverlight and .NET
There is now an Eclipse project, Eclipse4SL , to produce tools that work with Microsoft Silverlight . See Neil Hutson's blog post for some details. For those of you who have day jobs and find it hard to keep up with all the code-names and product names Read More...
09 October 2008
Weblogic JMS with .NET
This came out last month, I just learned about it from an email from Jesus today. WebLogic Server 10gR3 now has an officially-supported .NET client for its JMS provider . Very cool. Some of you might be wondering, just what does that mean? It means there Read More...
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26 September 2008
Interop sessions at Oracle Open World
Jesus and my collegue Kent Brown both spoke at Oracle Open World recently, on interop between WCF and WebLogic. http://weblogs.asp.net/gsusx/archive/2008/09/19/speaking-at-oracle-open-world.aspx But I found out after the fact! nice! Read More...
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24 September 2008
WSDL-First development with WCF
A couple weeks ago I mentioned that you could do WSDL-First development with WCF, but I didn't go into detail as to how that would work. Somebody asked, so I guess I'll describe the specific steps. I want to use a real scenario, so for a WSDL, I will Read More...
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23 September 2008
Flatten your WSDL with this Custom ServiceHost for WCF
Yesterday I mentioned using a custom service host to flatten the WSDL that is generated by a WCF service. This is something Christian showed us all how to do a long while ago, to improve interoperability between WCF-implemented services and consumers Read More...
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19 September 2008
DotNetZip users: Please Test Unicode support (free zip library for .NET)
DotNetZip is an open-source library to allow any .NET application to read and create zip files. If you want your ASP.NET page to grab an uploaded zipfile and unpack it on the server, DotNetZip can help you. If you want to generate a zipfile from a server-based Read More...
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12 September 2008
Many many LINQ Providers
When LINQ shipped, it included a provider model, to encourage people to make other systems and data stores accessible from the coolness-that-is-LINQ. Back in February, Charlie Calvert published a long list of LINQ providers . In July, Robert Shelton later Read More...
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05 September 2008
Using the WSDL-First design approach with WCF services
Couple of helpful posts from the archives for you. If you are care about interop, then you probably want to use a contract-first or WSDL-first design for your web services. In other words, you will not simply decorate server-side code annotations (in Read More...
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