February 2008 - Posts

Robots and BizTalk Services
28 February 08 10:58 AM | justinjsmith | 1 Comments   

I just posted a new screencast on Channel 9: http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=386824 . It's purpose is to show off the power of claims and claims transformation, especially in a hosted service like BizTalk Services. Read More...

Filed under: Services in the Cloud, BizTalk Services, BizTalk.NET Services, Robotics

Claims and the Calculator sample in the BizTalk Services SDK
27 February 08 03:01 PM | justinjsmith | 1 Comments   

The identity provider in BizTalk Services is a way for applications to delegate identity and access control to a hosted service. In other words, an application can use BizTalk Services to answer the all-important question "Who are you and what are Read More...

Filed under: Services in the Cloud, BizTalk Services, BizTalk.NET Services

enableWebScript, UriTemplate, and HTTP methods
15 February 08 03:55 PM | justinjsmith | 2 Comments   

A little while ago I ran into an interesting set of errors that may be of interest to you. Consider the following service contract snippet: [OperationContract] [WebGet(UriTemplate= "foobar/{value}" )] String GetData(String value ); .csharpcode, Read More...

Filed under: WCF, REST, Web Programming with WCF, JSON, ASP.NET AJAX

Life at Microsoft
13 February 08 02:20 PM | justinjsmith | 1 Comments   

I'm not prone to publish non-techie topics on this blog, but I can't help this one :). I'm often asked what life is like at Microsoft, and this video pretty much sums it up... http://on10.net/blogs/tina/Life-At-Microsoft/ Read More...