January 2004 - Posts

• Workshops on New WS-* specs

  Feedback Workshops are in the works for the WS-Eventing as well as the brand spanking new WS-BusinessActivity spec (along with the other 2 transaction specs ). Check the Workshops page for more details as they become available. Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 28, 2004 2:49 PM by mattpo | 0 Comments Filed under: Specifications, MSDN Web Services Developer Center

• WS-BusinessActivity: finally completing the WS-Transaction vision

  The WS-BusinessActivity specification was published today. This has been awhile in coming ( Secure, Reliable, Transacted Web Services: Architecture and Composition refered to WS-BA last September). But one of the cooler things about our publication is Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 28, 2004 2:40 PM by mattpo | 0 Comments Filed under: Specifications, MSDN Web Services Developer Center

• MSDN Data Access and Storage Developer Center Launched

  The new Data Access and Storage Developer Center here at MSDN launched this morning. I mentioned this was coming “ really, really soon ” last week. I suppose I could have said it would be up Monday, but there is always that chance that another Read More... Posted Monday, January 26, 2004 10:48 AM by mattpo | 0 Comments Filed under: MSDN Web Services Developer Center

• Data Access and Storage

  Dare spilled the beans about how he is working on trying to create an MSDN XML Developer Center. Aaron caught onto this and tried to rationalize why there isn't an XML and SQL dev center on MSDN already. Well, Dare mentioned the state on the former. The Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 21, 2004 4:39 PM by mattpo | 3 Comments Filed under: MSDN Web Services Developer Center

• It's about time

  Aaron Skonnard has finally started a blog . I suggest you subscribe immediately (and see how well his home line holds up :-)). In case you didn't know, Aaron does a bunch of things but is also a frequent contributor to content on the MSDN Web Services Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 21, 2004 3:56 PM by mattpo | 0 Comments Filed under: MSDN Web Services Developer Center

• Sad to see Kazu go

  I'm a baseball fan and more importantly am a Seattle Mariners fan (so don't expect me to quote National League player statistics). I have season tickets to the Mariners and have participated in their Fantasy Camp . Good times. One of the cooler things Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 21, 2004 2:15 PM by mattpo | 1 Comments Filed under: Other Interesting Stuff

• New Library Structure

  At the risk of talking about something that many would not even know exists, we updated the Web services section of the MSDN Library today. A little background... MSDN has a number of Developer Centers (of which the Web service developer center is one). Read More... Posted Tuesday, January 20, 2004 4:36 PM by mattpo | 5 Comments Filed under: MSDN Web Services Developer Center

• Operation Arctic Storm

  ...but man, those babies are gonna be ice cold when they come outta there . Read More... Posted Tuesday, January 20, 2004 10:55 AM by mattpo | 1 Comments Filed under: Other Interesting Stuff

• @Stake Compares Security in .NET and WebSphere

  @Stake published an analysis of the .NET Framework and WebSphere focusing on security issues. I didn't dig into the whole report yet, but the following are pretty cool things that they found: First and foremost they said that Windows Server 2003 w/ the Read More... Posted Tuesday, January 20, 2004 10:00 AM by mattpo | 0 Comments Filed under: ASP.NET Web Services, MSDN Web Services Developer Center

• Compressive Guides

  One of the cool pieces of content on TheServerSide.NET, is a portion of the pre-release version of an upcoming Patterns and Practices guide on “Improving .NET Application Performance and Scalability.” From the descriptive text: The team that Read More... Posted Monday, January 19, 2004 12:40 PM by mattpo | 0 Comments Filed under: Other Interesting Stuff

• TheServerSide.Net

  If you haven't already heard, you should check out http://theserverside.net which has a bunch of great info on .NET development which includes Web service development with .NET. I like the layout and general organization of the site. Ted has pulled together Read More... Posted Monday, January 19, 2004 11:55 AM by mattpo | 2 Comments Filed under: ASP.NET Web Services, MSDN Web Services Developer Center

• Whidbey Integrated Web Services

  Sean Gephardt, one of our developers here at MSDN talks about some new Web services that are currently being tested with the Whidbey PDC release that MSDN is hosting. He also ponders what others are looking for. Read More... Posted Thursday, January 15, 2004 4:41 PM by mattpo | 1 Comments Filed under: MSDN Web Services Developer Center

• WSDL with .NET Attribution

  Keith Pijanowski's article was published last Friday. Keith did a nice job of providing an exhaustive list of attibution options that you can use within your .ASMX Web service to control the automatic WSDL generation. Christian then made the excellent Read More... Posted Tuesday, January 13, 2004 3:27 PM by mattpo | 3 Comments Filed under: Specifications, ASP.NET Web Services, MSDN Web Services Developer Center

• Mad Cow

  Oldie from the last scare: If your cow sounds like this you might want to try the fish. Read More... Posted Tuesday, January 13, 2004 3:10 PM by mattpo | 0 Comments Filed under: Other Interesting Stuff

• http://blogs.msdn.com/mpowell

  Through the magic of DNS, my blog is now also available via http://blogs.msdn.com/mpowell . For those of you who have only seen this on http://weblogs.asp.net/mpowell , then I'm sure you are thoroughly impressed. Now you can make two different entries Read More... Posted Friday, January 09, 2004 1:17 PM by mattpo | 0 Comments Filed under: MSDN Web Services Developer Center

• The Line System

  Sara's post reminded me of Duncan's post which reminded me that I wanted to blog on my own New Years resolution. Yes, the weight thing. I thought about all the popular diets out there or joining a health club but I have a very busy life and an exercise Read More... Posted Friday, January 09, 2004 12:57 PM by mattpo | 2 Comments Filed under: Other Interesting Stuff

• Word...the next Infopath

  Chuck Urwiler wrote an interesting article on devx.com on how to create XML and use it from within Word in what is actually a very Infopath manner. This is really cool since Word is such an awesome data entry tool. Read More... Posted Thursday, January 08, 2004 1:30 PM by mattpo | 0 Comments Filed under: Other Interesting Stuff, MSDN Web Services Developer Center

• More on WS-Eventing

  I indicated earlier that we published the WS-Eventing spec on Tuesday. This turned out to be quite an effort because of the storm in the area which left everyone at home. Light snow was better than the freezing rain we received the next night on everyone's Read More... Posted Thursday, January 08, 2004 1:22 PM by mattpo | 1 Comments Filed under: Specifications, MSDN Web Services Developer Center

• But nobody does anything about it...

  OK...I've got to talk about the weather. If you haven't heard yet, we had snow here in the state of Washington. What with all the global warming it has been awhile since that has happened significantly around these parts. I live in an area that is kind Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 07, 2004 7:12 PM by mattpo | 2 Comments Filed under: Other Interesting Stuff

• Samurai

  [Edited to correct the spelling of SamUrai] Loved The Return of the King as indicated in an earlier post . Saw it a second time with the rest of my family and it was still good. But I'm here to say that I liked The Last Samurai better. My wife loves all Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 07, 2004 6:43 PM by mattpo | 3 Comments Filed under: Other Interesting Stuff

• WS-Eventing Released

  Check out the new WS-Eventing specification that was just released. Web services have lived for a long time in the world of Request/Response based on the close tie with HTTP that they have traditionally had. Another very important messaging scheme however Read More... Posted Tuesday, January 06, 2004 2:21 PM by mattpo | 1 Comments Filed under: Specifications, MSDN Web Services Developer Center

• More on the Kerberos Binding Specs

  Back from vacation which was pretty blog-less on my part. But now I'm back in the fray. Omri Gazitt writes about the Web Services Security Kerberos Binding that was published in December. Omri talks a bit about how you really get cross-realm Kerb interop Read More... Posted Monday, January 05, 2004 3:12 PM by mattpo | 0 Comments Filed under: MSDN Web Services Developer Center