December 2004 - Posts

• And Speaking of WSDL...

  How many jokes have a WSDL as a punchline? minOccurs = '1' -Matt Read More... Posted Wednesday, December 15, 2004 1:54 PM by mattpo | 2 Comments Filed under: Specifications, ASP.NET Web Services, Connected Systems

• Will the real WSDL please stand up?

  William T points out some gaffs from different sites on what WSDL really stands for. As I read through it, I cringed waiting for MSDN to show up. Luckily William was kind to us, but I felt compelled to search our site for "Web Services Definition Language" Read More... Posted Wednesday, December 15, 2004 1:44 PM by mattpo | 1 Comments Filed under: Specifications, MSDN Web Services Developer Center

• PDC 2005: Los Angeles - Sept. 11 - 16, 2005

  That's pretty much all we know about PDC '05 so far. But watch this space for more information. -Matt Read More... Posted Wednesday, December 08, 2004 2:19 PM by mattpo | 1 Comments Filed under: Specifications, ASP.NET Web Services, Other Interesting Stuff, MSDN Web Services Developer Center, Connected Systems, Web Services Enhancements (WSE)

• Lesson Learned: Don't Fiddle with your Tablet Pen

  During my weekly meeting with my boss (the best time to do stupid things, don't you think?) I had my tablet pc in hand and was taking a few notes w/ the pen. We got into a discussion of one sort or another when suddenly, SNAP! As I'm akin to do with normal Read More... Posted Tuesday, December 07, 2004 10:31 AM by mattpo | 3 Comments Filed under: Other Interesting Stuff, MSDN Web Services Developer Center, Connected Systems

• Taking the Dentist Thing One Step Further

  Chris' post on trauma at the dentist reminded me of my mother's recent experience - not with the dentist actually, but with the evil little tools of torture they use (this post is not for the squeamish). My mom is undergoing chemotherapy (nasty pills Read More... Posted Monday, December 06, 2004 4:05 PM by mattpo | 1 Comments Filed under: Other Interesting Stuff

• National Weather (Web) Service

  NOAA is doing XML! It does my heart well to see our government going the SOAP route. Get your official NOAA forecast. And as Kent mentions , although they are SOAP, they decided they would use RPC/Encoded instead of Document/Literal. Oh well. At least Read More... Posted Monday, December 06, 2004 3:35 PM by mattpo | 5 Comments Filed under: Specifications, MSDN Web Services Developer Center, Connected Systems

• Hands on Labs for WSE --Also in VB!!!

  Hidden deep on the WSE page of the MSDN Web Services Developer Center are two Hands On Labs for getting up to speed with WSE around messaging and using policy to implement secure Web services . These are great ways to get your feet wet with WSE and dig Read More... Posted Friday, December 03, 2004 6:02 PM by mattpo | 3 Comments Filed under: Specifications, ASP.NET Web Services, MSDN Web Services Developer Center, Connected Systems, Web Services Enhancements (WSE)

• It's Here! WSE 2.0 SP2

  Today Microsoft released Service Pack 2 for Web Services Enhancements 2.0 . Update your install today. For those who grabbed the SP2 pre-release, there are some small changes in the final version so you will want to make sure you get the final (the pre-release Read More... Posted Friday, December 03, 2004 10:48 AM by mattpo | 3 Comments Filed under: Specifications, ASP.NET Web Services, MSDN Web Services Developer Center, Connected Systems, Web Services Enhancements (WSE)