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Thursday, July 03, 2008 5:00 AM

PDC Sessions Round 2

The PDC website is doing a monthly countdown to the event by publishing session abstracts as they lock down. The July update is the second in this series and adds 16 new sessions to the list, including two on workflow. Workflow Foundation: Futures The
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Tuesday, July 01, 2008 5:00 AM

Web Service Webcasts in July

Four more webcasts are coming this month to talk about some of the new web service features in Orcas. Each webcast is aimed at developers and lasts 60-90 minutes. Transactional Windows Communication Foundation Services with Juval Lowy (Level 200) Monday,
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Thursday, June 26, 2008 5:00 AM

Another Last Call for XML Schema 1.1

New working drafts have been published for XSD 1.1, which starts a last call period for comments lasting from now until September 12th. The previous last calls in 2006 and 2007 resulted in a substantial number of comments and revisions. You can get the
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Wednesday, June 25, 2008 5:00 AM

PInvoke Interop Assistant

I noticed a new tool on CodePlex the other day called the PInvoke Interop Assistant that automatically converts between managed and unmanaged type signatures. In addition to converting API functions, it also pulls together all of the structures and types
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Wednesday, June 18, 2008 5:00 AM

Other Technologies You Might Find Interesting

There were two CTP releases recently of technology that don't directly focus on web services but you might find that they make developing services easier. The first technology is called Velocity. Velocity is a platform for building distributed caches
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Friday, June 13, 2008 5:00 AM

Network Monitor 3.2 Beta

Earlier this week a new beta release came out for Network Monitor. Although the beta has a variety of new features, the one I'm most interested in is the change to the capture engine to reduce the number of dropped frames. I've had problems in the past
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Wednesday, June 11, 2008 5:00 AM

Web Service Webcasts in June

Five webcasts are coming this month to talk about some of the new web service features in Orcas. Each webcast is aimed at developers and lasts 60-90 minutes. Beyond the Endpoints with Windows Communication Foundation with Juval Lowy (Level 100) Wednesday,
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Monday, June 09, 2008 5:00 AM

Silverlight 2 Beta 2

A promised Beta 2 was released later last week. In this case, later meant Friday after everyone went home so I updated the original article with a link to the download over the weekend. That means this doesn't count as the post for today. Scott Guthrie
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Thursday, June 05, 2008 5:00 AM

Improving Web Services Security Beta Guide

The WCF Security Guide content that I've mentioned a few times before is now done with early drafts and has been rolled up into a beta release of the full book. There's a ton of content in the real thing on top of what you've been seeing in the drafts.
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Wednesday, June 04, 2008 5:00 AM

Silverlight 2 Beta 2 Coming

At TechEd yesterday the next beta release of Silverlight 2 was announced to come out later this week. In Beta 2 you'll be much closer to seeing the complete subset of WCF that has been ported to the Silverlight platform. In particular, the work we've
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Monday, June 02, 2008 5:00 AM

Managed Services Engine June CTP

I'm a big fan of using service virtualization to solve a variety of problems with developing and managing web services. The Managed Services Engine is a solution built on top of WCF to supply a repository-based runtime and management tool for service
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Friday, May 30, 2008 5:00 AM

MVC Preview 3

Earlier this week a new preview for the ASP.NET Model-View-Controller framework showed up on the web. For those of you that haven't heard of MVC before, it's a framework on top of the existing ASP.NET runtime that modernizes the ASP.NET development experience
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Wednesday, May 28, 2008 5:00 AM

PDC Registration Open

The PDC 2008 conference registration site is now up and running. PDC is running this year from October 27th to 30th in Los Angeles, putting the countdown clock right now at a little over 152 days. There's already a preliminary session list available although
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Friday, May 16, 2008 5:00 AM

Books Before Bytes

I noticed the other day that O'Reilly has a new book format for prerelease software that relies on planning for and making incremental updates as the software is developed. After the software is released, the prerelease book and all of its updates are
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Tuesday, May 13, 2008 5:00 AM

Orcas SP1 Beta Released

Yesterday, a beta version of the first service pack for .Net Framework 3.5 was released including fixes and new features for WCF. The new features are primarily around serialization and tooling although there are enhancements scattered throughout many
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