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Sunday, November 30, 2003 10:26 PM

Indigo Samples

It seems like most people are unaware of the Indigo samples that shipped with the Longhorn SDK and that are available online here . There are over 40 samples covering basic services and clients, security, transactions, reliable messaging, hosting in ASP.NET,
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Monday, November 24, 2003 10:57 PM

How far should Whidbey go with BP conformance?

We plan to make services created with VS Whidbey BP 1.0 conformant by default. However, the developer has opportunities to make the service non-conformant. For example, using SOAP encoding (adding the SoapRpcServiceAttribute) would make it non conformant.
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Monday, November 24, 2003 8:08 PM

iTunes and mp3

I've been hearing a lot about iTunes recently so I decided to check it out. I have an mp3 player (not an iPod) so it was important to me to be able to download the music I buy in mp3 format. The iTunes download page had this statement: “iTunes encodes
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Sunday, November 23, 2003 10:18 PM

Interesting lecture

I just viewed a recorded lect ure by Donald Knuth named God and Computer Science. It's definitely interesting content and, in many ways, thought provoking. I agree with most of his arguments except the very first one he makes. Favorite quote: “Infinity
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Sunday, November 23, 2003 12:03 PM

My site back up

I finally got LearnXmlws.com up and running again. It's now just the online home of my book and other content I produce. Now all I need to do is get my weather Web service up and running again as the code in Ken 's course depends on it.
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Saturday, November 22, 2003 11:20 PM

4B0082 is here

In the past few weeks since PDC, I've been very happy with the tremendous positive response to Indigo. People are asking questions on the newsgroup and lists, publishers and authors are actively planning Indigo books, and the team is busily working towards
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