May 2004 - Posts

• Encrypting only 1 parameter of a WebMethod with WSE

  You don't have to encrypt the entire body of a message with WSE. You can encrypt just certain pieces. Or you can encrypt some pieces with one key and other pieces with another key. You can find code that shows you how to encrypt part of a message here Read More... Posted Friday, May 28, 2004 3:10 PM by mattpo | 2 Comments Filed under: ASP.NET Web Services, MSDN Web Services Developer Center, Connected Systems, Web Services Enhancements (WSE)

• Encrypting one parameter on a WebMethod with WSE

  One of the attendees here at TechEd asked me how to encrypt only one of the parameters on a WebMethod with WSE. I figured others might be curious too so here is some code that does this. Web Service code: [WebMethod] public string HelloWorld( string UnsecureParam, Read More... Posted Friday, May 28, 2004 2:53 PM by mattpo | 2 Comments Filed under: ASP.NET Web Services, Connected Systems, Web Services Enhancements (WSE)

• There is only one program...and it is still being written

  I'm currently sitting in Doug Purdy's Web services versioning talk here at TechEd. The fact that we are here with Doug reminded a few of us of his earlier talk where he philosophized on the connectivity of applications. Apparently he will be talking a Read More... Posted Thursday, May 27, 2004 1:49 PM by mattpo | 2 Comments Filed under: MSDN Web Services Developer Center, Connected Systems

• WSE WSE WSE

  There's a lot of excitement here at TechEd about the WSE release. I got to watch Keith Ballinger's WSE Messaging talk and Benjamin Mitchell 's WSE Security talk. Both talks had a full room. For some reason all the Connected Systems track presentations Read More... Posted Thursday, May 27, 2004 11:50 AM by mattpo | 0 Comments Filed under: ASP.NET Web Services, MSDN Web Services Developer Center, Connected Systems

• Interop with Federated Browser Authentication

  [Update: Adding the link - thanks Dumky] A great write-up of the WS-Federation Passive Requestor Profile Interop Workshop was posted on the Web Services Developer Center today. Passive Requestors are things like Web browsers and the WS-Federation Passive Read More... Posted Tuesday, May 25, 2004 10:27 AM by mattpo | 1 Comments Filed under: Specifications, MSDN Web Services Developer Center, Connected Systems

• WSE 2.0 Hands on Labs

  Here at TechEd we have created two Hands On Labs for attendees to walk through in order to get a good introductory feel of the features of the WSE 2.0. These labs are now available for everyone on the Web Services Developer Center on MSDN. Find them in Read More... Posted Monday, May 24, 2004 5:25 PM by mattpo | 3 Comments Filed under: ASP.NET Web Services, MSDN Web Services Developer Center, Connected Systems

• WSE 2.0 is Released!

  It is finally here! WSE 2.0 is now available as a free download. Coolest Feature: The policy support (WS-Policy) makes the task of creating secure messages a breeze. Not just signing and encrypting, but verifying that messages do meet the policy criterion. Read More... Posted Monday, May 24, 2004 9:31 AM by mattpo | 4 Comments Filed under: Specifications, ASP.NET Web Services, MSDN Web Services Developer Center, Connected Systems

• TechEd and Web Services

  I've made it down here to San Diego for TechEd and am currently sitting in a VERY comfortable couch in the developer section of the Cabanas. We have been working very hard over the past few weeks in preperation for TechEd and it is exciting to know everything Read More... Posted Sunday, May 23, 2004 2:22 PM by mattpo | 0 Comments Filed under: MSDN Web Services Developer Center, Connected Systems

• Web Service Specification Timeline

  The folks at 3 Leaf have an interesting timeline with the various Web service specifications laid out. This would be an excellent companion when perusing our specification index pages . They also have a resources page with a ton-o-links to Web services Read More... Posted Wednesday, May 19, 2004 11:42 AM by mattpo | 2 Comments Filed under: Specifications, MSDN Web Services Developer Center, Connected Systems

• Free MapPoint Web Service for MSDN Subscribers

  If you are an MSDN Subscriber, there is currently an offer where you can get a MapPoint Web Service account for free. Find all the details here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/productinfo/enterprise/ And if you want to become an MSDN Subscriber. Go Read More... Posted Friday, May 14, 2004 5:53 PM by mattpo | 6 Comments Filed under: MSDN Web Services Developer Center, Connected Systems

• Rant continued again: Don't put XML in Strings

  Shaun's post reminds me of two points to make about my aversion to HTML-encoding XML into strings and then returning the strings from your Web service instead of returning the XML: Web services are all about wire format and are not about what objects Read More... Posted Friday, May 14, 2004 1:54 PM by mattpo | 2 Comments Filed under: ASP.NET Web Services, MSDN Web Services Developer Center, Connected Systems

• Rant Continued: Avoiding the DOM?

  More feedback from my earlier post... ChadBr came up with the best reason I have heard so far on when you might return XML encoded as a string instead of the actual XML from a Web service. What if you don't want the overhead of creating the DOM on the Read More... Posted Thursday, May 13, 2004 12:54 PM by mattpo | 3 Comments Filed under: MSDN Web Services Developer Center, Connected Systems

• Rant continued: Some reasons...that don't usually apply

  My previous post on my distaste for encoding XML into strings and passing the encoded strings in the Web service message payload generated some feedback . While thinking over the possibilities for when it might be acceptable to encode XML, I came up with Read More... Posted Wednesday, May 12, 2004 8:37 PM by mattpo | 0 Comments Filed under: MSDN Web Services Developer Center, Connected Systems

• Three gallons

  At lunch today I gave blood. The lady who setup my appointment said I should make sure and pick up my 3 gallon pin (which means I've donated more than 24 times). I actually earned it at my last donation, but figured I would save them the expense of giving Read More... Posted Wednesday, May 12, 2004 2:40 PM by mattpo | 10 Comments Filed under: Other Interesting Stuff

• Rant: Don't return XML in string variables!

  I have probably seen a half a dozen article submissions to MSDN in the last year with authors who do the following: // Bad Bad Bad [WebMethod] public string MyLameWebMethod() { XmlDocument dom = new XmlDocument(); // load some XML ... return dom.OuterXml; Read More... Posted Wednesday, May 12, 2004 11:39 AM by mattpo | 26 Comments Filed under: MSDN Web Services Developer Center, Connected Systems

• Jeff Schlimmer shows us how it works

  Jeff put together a really compellilng presentation of the message exchanges around the Devices Profile . For those of us who want to see the XML, this is an awesome extension to his article . -Matt Read More... Posted Tuesday, May 11, 2004 11:42 AM by mattpo | 1 Comments Filed under: Specifications, MSDN Web Services Developer Center, Connected Systems

• thinktecture

  Congratulations and the best of luck to the guys starting up thinktecture . This really is a very solid group of guys. And of course it is nice to note that half of the thinktecture team has or is writing content for the MSDN Web Services Developer Center. Read More... Posted Tuesday, May 11, 2004 11:33 AM by mattpo | 1 Comments Filed under: MSDN Web Services Developer Center, Connected Systems

• Devices Profile for Web Services Released

  At WinHec today Microsoft announced the publication of the Devices Profile for Web Services . This profile outlines a set of Web service specifications and contraints within those specifications that define a core set of Web service functionality that Read More... Posted Tuesday, May 04, 2004 10:20 PM by mattpo | 0 Comments Filed under: Specifications, MSDN Web Services Developer Center, Connected Systems