Matt Powell : MSDN Web Services Developer Center

Free Microsoft Virtual Server

mattpo — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 03:06:00 GMT

Web service developers are often using virtual servers to setup a virtual netwrk of services. Well now you can get Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 for free.

-Matt

WS-Transfer, WS-Enumeration and WS-Eventing to W3C

mattpo — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 22:05:00 GMT

Jeffrey Schlimmer points out that these three specs have been submitted to the W3C.

-Matt

Common WSE Kerberos Problem

mattpo — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 00:02:00 GMT

Mark Fussell discusses a common problem when using WSE 3.0 and Kerberos security. He answers the following question:

I need advice with WSE 3.0 and implementing a web service that requires a Kerberos token. It seems that my simple web service and Windows client should be straight-forward but I’m not able to get past the error “Security requirements are not satisfied because the security header is not present in the incoming message."

-Matt

Channel 9: WCF Interop Plug-Fest

mattpo — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 01:55:00 GMT

Kirill Gavrylyuk and Jorgen Thelin talk about the WCF interop Plug-Fest on Channel 9 where WS-* implementations from different vendors are tested to make sure they work with one another. Don't miss it.

-Matt

William Tay Writes about Securing WCF

mattpo — Sat, 04 Mar 2006 02:52:00 GMT

William Tay just published the second article in a two part series on WCF over on The ServerSide.NET. This one on Securing WCF Services. Check it out.

-Matt

Content Strategist Wanted!

mattpo — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 21:12:00 GMT

I'm currently looking for a Content Strategist to work on my team here at MSDN. If you want to be the face of Microsoft to the developer community on the biggest developer web site in the world, let me know.

Although I currently have holes on the C#, .NET Framework, WinFX and SQL developer centers, I'm also wanting candidates who have a good, general knowledge of the Microsoft development tools and platforms.

You can find the official job description here. The position is located in Redmond, Washington.

If you feel you are qualified, please send me your resume and include "MSDN Content Strategist Position" at the beginning of the subject of your email.

-Matt

Windows Communication Foundation CTP

mattpo — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 21:08:00 GMT

If you haven't already heard, the WinFX January CTP released a couple days ago. You can find more information here.

-Matt

Update to WSERM for WSE 3.0 Available

mattpo — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 04:14:00 GMT

We just posted an update to the WS-ReliableMessaging sample code that George Copeland wrote that works with the RTM bits of WSE 3.0. George posted his original code with the initial CTP release of WSE 3.0. The new version works with the RTM versions of the .NET Framework 2.0 and WSE 3.0.

-Matt

WSE 3.0 - Run released WSE on released .NET Framework 2.0

mattpo — Tue, 08 Nov 2005 00:33:00 GMT

It's available!

Get the final release of WSE 3.0 today. You also want to check out the updated Hands on Labs on messaging and security.

-Matt

Launched!

mattpo — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 21:27:00 GMT

With the Visual Studio 2005, SQL Server 2005 and BizTalk Server 2006 launch, MSDN made a few changes too...

For starters, with a new product like Visual Studio 2005 we assume that most people are either going to want to download the shipping version or figure out just what is in the new version so the Visual Studio Developer Center has been revamped to be more focused on product information than technical articles. The language developer centers are still focused on technical content (although this week they have a lot of launch-focused headlines but those will be updated with a lot of articles and other technical content in the coming days).

Second, we wanted people to understand that we are in a whole new world starting today in regards to the development platform from Microsoft so we have changed the main Visual Studio-focused developer centers and the MSDN homepage to reflect this. First and foremost you will probably notice that we are using large "hero" graphics at the top of the pages. I'm pretty impressed with how they came out and I think they do a good job of opening your eyes to the fact that we aren't in Kansas anymore. If you are overwhelmed with Launch-focused graphics everywhere, that was the intention. Launch. Launch. Launch. We don't want anyone to have any doubt in their mind that there is a new version of our products now available. Also, we have changed our homepage layout so that the popular Developer Center listing that we had before has been moved to the left hand navigation -- a more traditional place for a navigation element.

We have made an effort to make the developer centers and the homepage cleaner and with less clutter. So some information you were used to seeing on the homepage has been moved into sub-pages. Also, the left hand navigation on the revamped developer centers has been standardized so that you can find the same information in the same places no matter which developer center you are using. We rolled this out with the re-launched VStudio focused developer centers today, but will be sending this same infrastructure on to our other developer centers in the future.

This was a long-time in the making here at MSDN and I think it is safe to say that this was the biggest undertaking we have ever tackled, particularly if you wrap it with all the internal tools and infrastructure changes that we are also doing to integrate with Visual Studio 2005.

-Matt

Almost Monday...

mattpo — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 21:21:00 GMT

On Monday, November 7th, Microsoft will launch Visual Studio 2005, SQL Server 2005 and BizTalk Server 2006. This is the first in long series of product launches from Microsoft over the coming year that will culminate in the release of Windows Vista.

Of course you will want a released version of WSE 3.0 that runs with VStudio 2005. Check back here Monday.

-Matt

Web Services Secure Exchange Technical Committee Created at Oasis

mattpo — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 00:55:00 GMT

The Oasis standards body created a technical committee today to finalize WS-Trust, WS-SecureConversation and WS-SecurityPolicy. It's name: The Web Services Secure Exchange Technical Committee. This is the final step in the Workshop Process to get these Web services specs standardized.

For more info on these specs, see the Web Services Security Specification Index page on MSDN.

-Matt

Are you ready for Launch?

mattpo — Fri, 14 Oct 2005 03:12:00 GMT

At MSDN, we are frantic about getting ready for the upcoming launch of Visual Studio 2005, SQL 2005 and Biztalk 2006. The launch events are being organized, the VPs are all getting in line, Steve is preparing for the keynote, we are revamping the MSDN homepage, our developer centers, scrubbing our beta content, building new content and getting all the ducks in line to support what could be called the largest developer tools launch in Microsoft history. There are a bunch of people from a bunch of different areas in the company and around the world, all testing their abilities to work together as a tight team.

Sometimes, I think there is no way that MSDN can pull off what we need to do. Sometimes I'm giddy about our efforts. At the moment I'm giddy.

We'll see where I am tomorrow. :-)

-Matt

WS-TX to Oasis

mattpo — Fri, 14 Oct 2005 02:57:00 GMT

Jorgen pointed out that Oasis announced the formation of a technical committee on WS-TX yesterday. Then points out the article on CBDI that says great things about the WS-* effort and the whole Workshop Process.

Of all the WS-* specs, WS-TX always seemed like the spec(s) that had the longest to go. As I look around me, I see that they are all very close to being ratified by standards organizations. I guess that the Workshop process worked pretty well. :-)

-Matt

Intro to WCF Channels

mattpo — Thu, 13 Oct 2005 20:44:00 GMT

Yasser Shohoud, Program Manager on the Windows Communication Foundation team, introduces the concept of WCF Channels which provides a mechanism for plugging in different transports for passing your WCF messages around on.

-Matt