January 2006 - Posts

mearls link on Web Services Security
19 January 06 09:37 AM | jvast | 0 Comments   

My teammate Michael Earls provides a link to a Web Services security document: http://blogs.msdn.com/mearls/archive/2006/01/19/514822.aspx Since its a PAG book, you can download the whole book _free_ from the link Michael provides as a PDF and carry it Read More...

Go-Live young man ....
19 January 06 09:02 AM | jvast | 0 Comments   

So yesterday the product groups announced Go-Live licensing for Windows Communication Foundation and Workflow Foundation . In a nutshell this is licensing allowing a customer or ISV to use the product in a production environment and Microsoft will support Read More...

Next generation User Interfaces
18 January 06 08:59 AM | jvast | 0 Comments   

So I should start this post with a disclaimer in that everything I'm going to posit is my own personal opinion (my wife would tell you that I'm wrong pretty much most of the time), so you'll have take this post with a grain of salt. I'm thinking we are Read More...

So the award this week goes to...
18 January 06 08:51 AM | jvast | 0 Comments   

So far as the best technical posts the last few weeks on their blogs, I'd have to give the team awards to John Pelak and Alex Onik . I enjoyed both of their articles on LDAP binds and Patterns vs. Frameworks discussions. Read More...

Steve pontificating on Excel 12 Web Service features...
17 January 06 05:43 PM | jvast | 0 Comments   

Its not me or Ballmer waxing large on Excel 12 and its Web Services features. While I couldn't get through a business day without Excel I wouldn't count myself as a power user. Cue Steve Yi, a fireball member of the US ISV team. Steve has a great mini Read More...

Dynamics CRM ..... taking names
17 January 06 04:40 PM | jvast | 0 Comments   

So I've been hearing great things about MS Dynamics CRM 3.0. With some of the new features like clustering support and the ability to do 3rd party hosting. Dynamics CRM is turning out to look like a very good solution for ISVs to either embed in their Read More...