More and more Interop…NET FX 3.5 SP1 Beta Bits Live!
In the last few weeks, we’ve seen Microsoft announce several Interop-related work that the company is doing, including BizTalk R3 with expanded interop with new Web Services registry capabilities with support for UDDI (Universal Description Discovery and Integration) version 3.0 and LOB applications, Microsoft BizTalk RFID Mobile - a light weight application that works on mobile RFID devices, and will enable delivery of relevant information from these devices to central business process systems, Interop news from partners, like SAP and TIBCO, and last, but not least the .NET StockTrader 2.0/Config Service 2.0. This also only just a few examples of Interop work that’s been going on at Microsoft.
Let’s face it. Interop is very important in the industry and Windows Communication Foundation makes it easier for developers to create seamless Web Service-based applications. Today, Microsoft released Service Pack 1 (SP1) betas for Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5. This is very exciting for me because the SP1 for the .NET FX 3.5 delivers WCF improvements that give developers more control over the way they access data and services, including:
- Interoperable object references
- Enable WCF Service template in Visual Web Developer Express sku
- Hosting Wizard for Visual Studio WCF Service projects in IIS
- Enable Event Logging in Partial trust
These are only a few of the new features for WCF in the .NET FX 3.5 Beta bits. This is really important also for the investment of SOA applications which enables customers and developers to create more interoperable apps. As we see more companies involved in developing SOA apps like SAP and TIBCO as well as our own technology investments in developing more interoperable features in our products, we see the importance and need of SOA in the enterprise industry.
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