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Access Control Service - A Simple Scenario
06 November 08 11:42 PM | justinjsmith | 2 Comments   
To the already initiated claims disciples, the Access Control Service is a multi-tenant Resource STS. The behavior of each STS is determined by simple rules - the rules control how each STS transforms claims . To those not already initiated in the claims Read More...
.NET Services - Launch at PDC 08
27 October 08 08:39 AM | justinjsmith | 0 Comments   
Today we announced the CTP release of .NET Services! For quite a while now, I have been working on this project. It's great to see it announced and to have customers use our services. .NET Services consist of three services: the Service Bus, the Workflow Read More...
Access Control rule changes in BizTalk Services R12
16 July 08 10:12 AM | justinjsmith | 1 Comments   
Yesterday we released a new version of BizTalk Services (R12). Over the next few weeks I'll be updating my blog with descriptions of the identity related features we added in this release. For now I'd like to describe one of the most obvious changes to Read More...
BizTalk Services and "Add Service Reference"
08 April 08 02:34 PM | justinjsmith | 1 Comments   
One of the little known features of BizTalk Services is it's support for metadata. There's a sample in the SDK (default path: C:\Program Files\Microsoft BizTalk Services SDK\Samples\Communication\ExploringFeatures\Metadata\MetadataExchange\CS30) that Read More...
First week at the new job
22 March 08 10:01 AM | justinjsmith | 2 Comments   
This week I started a new job at Microsoft - I've moved from Developer and Platform Evangelism to the Connected Systems Division. I'm now a program manager on the BizTalk Services team ( http://biztalk.net ). It was hard to leave DPE, but this seems like Read More...
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...
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...
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...
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...
MySpace does WCF
31 January 08 08:12 PM | justinjsmith | 1 Comments   
My friend Vittorio has posted that MySpace will be talking about WCF at Mix 2008 ( see it here ). This promises to be a good session! Read More...
Life of a WCF Demo, Part 1
22 January 08 03:24 PM | justinjsmith | 2 Comments   
I thought it might be mildly interesting to document the lifecycle of a demo. Over the next week or so I have to design, build, and deploy a demo that shows off some of the web-centric features of WCF in the .NET Framework 3.5. First, let me state the Read More...
PictureServices and BizTalk Services
18 January 08 04:47 PM | justinjsmith | 2 Comments   
Previous posts have talked a bit about PictureServices. Now I'd like to run through what it took to bring PictureServices to the BizTalk Services. I've talked a bit in other posts about BizTalk Services, but it has some interesting and very useful messaging Read More...
XML namespace declarations in SyndicationFeed objects
16 January 08 01:12 AM | justinjsmith | 2 Comments   
Following on the heels of Steve Maine's post about namespaces in Syndication objects (Feeds, items, etc.), I thought it wise to plug the new stuff in PictureServices . At the moment, PictureServices implements SLE (Simple List Extensions), and does a Read More...
PictureServices updated to VS 2008 RTM
14 January 08 07:18 PM | justinjsmith | 3 Comments   
Today I updated PictureServices to work with the RTM release of Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5 (what a mouthful). My testing rigor for this release was less than perfect. Please let me know if you find any bugs. For what it's worth, the Read More...
PictureServices status update
14 January 08 09:13 AM | justinjsmith | 1 Comments   
I've received several mails about PictureServices and RTM. As some of you know, the Syndication API changed before RTM. The were subtle, but they did have an impact on the Picture Services project. Specifically, the simple list extensions part of Picture Read More...
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