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Description: Web Services et al.
Last Update: 14:12:48 02/28/2006
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First Fetched: 00:17:42 01/31/2004
Last Updated: 14:12:48 02/28/2006
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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
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| 07:12:00 January 19, 2006, Thursday (PST) |
Source: Matt Powell |
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If you haven't already heard, the WinFX January CTP released a couple days ago. You can find more information here. -Matt
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| 07:08:00 January 19, 2006, Thursday (PST) |
Source: Matt Powell |
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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
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| 14:14:00 November 14, 2005, Monday (PST) |
Source: Matt Powell |
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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
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| 10:33:00 November 7, 2005, Monday (PST) |
Source: Matt Powell |
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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 ...
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| 07:27:00 November 7, 2005, Monday (PST) |
Source: Matt Powell |
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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
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| 08:21:00 November 4, 2005, Friday (PST) |
Source: Matt Powell |
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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
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| 11:55:00 October 26, 2005, Wednesday (PDT) |
Source: Matt Powell |
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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
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| 14:12:00 October 13, 2005, Thursday (PDT) |
Source: Matt Powell |
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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
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| 13:57:00 October 13, 2005, Thursday (PDT) |
Source: Matt Powell |
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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
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| 07:44:00 October 13, 2005, Thursday (PDT) |
Source: Matt Powell |
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The latest Community Technology Preview of Web Services Enhancements 3.0 is now available. Yes, it is the October WSE 3.0 CTP. This will be the last CTP before the final release in November. Be sure and let us know of any problems in the Product Feedback Center. -Matt
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| 10:21:00 October 5, 2005, Wednesday (PDT) |
Source: Matt Powell |
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Richard Turner and Payam Shodjai talk about the Windows Communication Foundation (you know, Indigo) on PodcastStudio.net. They talk about the Indigo Roadshow (one more date today and one more on Wednesday) and what they are telling people about WCF. -Matt
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| 06:51:00 September 26, 2005, Monday (PDT) |
Source: Matt Powell |
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MSN felt that they reached critical mass with their technologies for developers so during PDC they launched the MSN Developer Center. Included in their offering of developer technologies are Web services interfaces to MSN Search and MSN Virtual Earth. Be sure and check them out. -Matt
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| 10:49:00 September 21, 2005, Wednesday (PDT) |
Source: Matt Powell |
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If you didn't make it down to PDC in Los Angeles, or if you did and would still like to see the final slides and/or sample code from the presentations, head over the public Commnet web site (Commnet is the event Web site that is usually only accessible to attendees -- but not this year). Although it asks you to sign-in with your Microsoft Passport, it is not required. Here's a link straight to the session download page. -Matt
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| 18:13:00 September 20, 2005, Tuesday (PDT) |
Source: Matt Powell |
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One of my back teeth needed a crown so I went to the dentist about a month ago where they fitted me for the permanent crown, and put on a temporary one. As I'm laying there with my mouth open they use my chest, complete with bib, to place various utensils on. So I didn't think much of it when the the dental assistant placed something on my shirt near the end of my procedure. Later that day my wife says, "I guess you were quite a patient at the dentist today." "What??" I say confused. "Look at your shirt." I look down and there, just below my collar, out of eyesight, is a bright green sticker with a very excited bear on it, exclaiming, "WORLD'S GREATEST PATIENT!" I have a good laugh at my own expense. I was on vacation that day to accomplish some things around the house so the exposure was pretty minimal - my wife and kids laugh at my expense all the time. Fast forward to today. I'm rather preoccupied with the crown being put on and the fact that mid-PDC last week a different crown ...
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| 18:13:00 September 20, 2005, Tuesday (PDT) |
Source: Matt Powell |
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It's always fun to see how Microsoft gears up for the PDC. Here at MSDN we are scrambling like mad to stay on top of all the different technologies that are being announced and have content around them that need to be published simultaneously with one or another keynote. I'll be heading down to LA myself on Monday, the day before official day 1 (They are doing some very cool pre-con sessions Monday too). I'm hoping all our preperations will have paid off and we will just have to push a button or two by that time to get everything live. I'll be spending a lot of time in the Indigo, I mean Windows Communication Foundation, cabana so make plans on stopping by and saying hi. If you want to talk about MSDN and the content we publish, we can talk about that too. Hope to see you there. If you aren't going, follow what's happening at the PDC on MSDN. You won't want to miss it. -Matt
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| 10:31:00 August 26, 2005, Friday (PDT) |
Source: Matt Powell |
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What a mouthful! That's right, we've changed our name, our layout and what we talk about. The MSDN Web Services Developer Center is now the MSDN Web Services and Other Distributed Technologies Developer Center. Please accept my apologies for the senseless waste of pixels required for our new name, especially now with the price of pixels per barrell at record highs. But our new Sports Utility sized name was deemed necessary for several reasons: A central place was needed to discuss the use of other Web service and related technologies, like .NET Remoting, Enterprise Services, Message Queuing and even COM+. We needed to evolve our site to encompass our next generation of Web service technology: Indigo We needed to evolve our site to encompass our next generation unified programming model for developing distributed applications: Indigo This really became apparent when customers were asking what technologies they should use today and how should they evolve them to be ready for Indigo. ...
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| 19:15:00 July 21, 2005, Thursday (PDT) |
Source: Matt Powell |
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Two problems were found with the just published WSE 3.0 July CTP. 1. The Add Web Reference feature in the July CTP version of Visual Studio 2005 does not generate a WSE enabled proxy. To work around the problem, modify the generated proxy base class from System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol to Microsoft.Web.Services3.WebServicesClientProtocol 2. The Update Web Reference feature in the July CTP version of Visual Studio 2005 will generate an error. To work around the problem, delete the existing web reference and add it again by using the Add Web Reference feature. Additionally, you would also need to modify the generated proxy base class from System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol to Microsoft.Web.Services3.WebServicesClientProtocol Don't forget that the WSE 3.0 July CTP only works with the Whidbey July CTP which is only available to MSDN Subscribors. -Matt
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| 16:20:00 July 21, 2005, Thursday (PDT) |
Source: Matt Powell |
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The WSE team has put out an update to their earlier WSE 3.0 technical preview, but before you rush out and install it be aware that the new WSE 3.0 July CTP REQUIRES the July CTP of .NET Framework 2.0 or the July CTP of Visual Studio 2005. The July CTPs of the .NET Framework and Visual Studio are only available to MSDN subscribers. So if you want to see the updates since the original WSE 3.0 CTP, go get it: Web Services Enhancements (WSE) 3.0 July Community Tech Preview for Microsoft .NET Web Services Enhancements (WSE) 3.0 July Community Tech Preview for Microsoft .NET Redistributable Runtime MSI -Matt
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| 10:55:00 July 20, 2005, Wednesday (PDT) |
Source: Matt Powell |
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One of the most common questions I'm getting here at TechEd is, "What's new in WSE 3.0?" The single biggest answer is that it is completely integrated with Whidbey (Visual Studio 2005 and the .NET Framework 2.0). You are required to have the .NET Framework 2.0 installed to install the technical preview of WSE 3.0. Beyond the Whidbey integration are the things like the improved policy and security session support. It is also Microsoft's first implementation of the W3C standard MTOM spec for sending binary data with your XML message. For a full list of features, check out the release notes available on the MSDN Web Services Developer Center. -Matt
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| 09:33:00 June 9, 2005, Thursday (PDT) |
Source: Matt Powell |
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I'm currently workin' the booth at Tech Ed USA here in Orlando, Florida. I'm spending a bunch of my time here at booth # 33 in the Microsoft Pavillion. We are in the booth that discusses the current technologies of the .NET Framework for writing distributed applications which includes: Web services (my favorite), WSE (okay, also my favorite), MSMQ, Enterprise Services and .NET Remoting. If you are here at TechEd, stop by and say, "Hi!" -Matt
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| 07:53:00 June 7, 2005, Tuesday (PDT) |
Source: Matt Powell |
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Today we released a Community Technical Preview of WSE 3.0. Check out the release notes for details on what is new. We also made some changes to the WSE page on the MSDN Web Services Developer Center that should make it a lot easier to use and a bit more appealing. The verb we used to describe these efforts was "sexify" (ie. "Please sexify the WSE page."). Will you notice? Thanks to Judith for all the work she did to get the new WSE page live. Have fun playing w/ WSE 3.0 and its many cool features. -Matt
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| 11:23:00 June 3, 2005, Friday (PDT) |
Source: Matt Powell |
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I currently have two open positions here at MSDN for Content Strategists that can potentially cover the following technologies: Longhorn, the .NET Framework, C#, Smart Clients and Web Services. You don't have to be an expert in all these areas, but you should be an expert in at least 2. Writing technical articles is a big part of this position as well as acquiring content, working with other groups within Microsoft and interfacing with the developer community. Imagine your face HERE (instead of mine). If you are interested, send me your resume. Please put "Content Strategy Position" as the subject to your email. The person who fills this position will be required to work out of Redmond, WA. Here are the official job posting links: here and here. For those of you who are curious about what I will be doing, I will be managing the Content Strategy team full time. I look forward to hearing from you. -Matt
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| 15:49:00 May 31, 2005, Tuesday (PDT) |
Source: Matt Powell |
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Yesterday we published two articles on the concepts of a federated identity metasystem on the MSDN Web Services Developer Center. Today we took the next step -- we published two new Web service specifications: Web Single Sign-On Interoperability Profile and Web Single Sign-On Metadata Exchange Protocol. But what is really important about today's publications is who the authors on these specs are: Microsoft and Sun. There was initially a lot of concern and a lot of downright competition on where a federated security system was going to come from. Microsoft has Passport and was pushing the WS-* system and Sun (and others) created the Liberty Alliance to build a different system. There was certainly a time where it seemed like the only solution was to take sides and hope you won the battle. Instead today we are seeing Sun and Microsoft working together on building something that will work for everyone. Seems like there should be inspirational music playing in the background as a tear ...
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| 05:55:00 May 13, 2005, Friday (PDT) |
Source: Matt Powell |
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Who? Who? Who? Who? Today we published two articles Identity on the MSDN Web Services Developer Center. These are very interesting reads since they define the context of Identity systems (The Laws of Identity) and then provide the general vision on how the identity problem can be solved (Microsoft's Vision for an Identity Metasystem). For more information, check out Kim Cameron's Identity Blog. -Matt
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| 11:35:00 May 12, 2005, Thursday (PDT) |
Source: Matt Powell |
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Some of you may be familiar with the MSDN Product Feedback Center that has been used to allow the users of the Visual Studio 2005 betas to file bugs and submit product suggestions. Our general plan is that this capability will be provided for any number of developer products, but we are rolling this out slowly as we build the infrastrure and communication channels with the different product groups within Microsoft. Well, we have recently rolled out the capability for folks using Web Services Enhancements and Indigo to take advantage of the Product Feedback Center. Not only can you submit bugs or suggestions on these products, you can also provide your 2 cents on which bugs are the most important ones for us to address. The Product Feedback Center requires a passport login. If you are logged in and go to the homepage you will see the status of all the bugs you have opened plus any others you have flagged for tracking. Or you can go straight to the WSE or Indigo list. Let us know how ...
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| 14:57:00 April 8, 2005, Friday (PDT) |
Source: Matt Powell |
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At the risk of being accused of stalking, I've got another Ari link on Indigo for everyone. This time in my favorite web medium: text (as opposed to streaming video). http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2005/mar05/03-16WebServicesPreview.asp Now if someone will only sell his used brain monitors on ebay. :-) -Matt
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| 15:40:00 March 17, 2005, Thursday (PST) |
Source: Matt Powell |
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Want to learn about Indigo? Check out the full series of Indigo Day content from this year's VSLive! And for those of you who can never get enough of Ari Bixhorn (isn't that all of us?)...you can see Ari's keynote at Web Services Edge 2005 where he repeats the demo where he uses Web services to literally plug his brain waves into the world of WS-*. And I thought Martin was the only one whose brain signals are passed via SOAP envelopes. -Matt
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| 15:06:00 March 8, 2005, Tuesday (PST) |
Source: Matt Powell |
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Jorgen put together a mapping of the current state of affairs when it comes to the WS-* specifications and where they are on the road to becoming industry standards. You will find this diagram on the Workshops page. We won't be updating it with every single change, but we will be updating quarterly so that it will be pretty close to the present situation. -Matt
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| 02:30:00 March 4, 2005, Friday (PST) |
Source: Matt Powell |
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It occured to me recently that one of the greater joys I have of my children growing is to see their sense of humor develop. It begins somewhere around 5 years old where they start to get a knack for the rhythm of a joke. Here's one I recently heard from my youngest daughter (age 5): Why did the horsey cross the road? Because it wanted to play in the field. Okay, its not funny. But the delivery is there. And yes, after just the right amount of sleep deprevation, my wife and I have been known to laugh histerically at jokes like this - much to the delight of the joke teller. So fast forward about 10 years in humor development...my oldest is now 15 (OMG, almost 16!). We are having a casual discussion with one of our church friends over cookies. My wife and I realize that we will both be out of town overnight in a couple weeks. In front of our friend and my oldest daughter we contemplate them staying overnight alone. Me: <jokingly to daughter> Just make sure that if have to call 911 ...
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| 14:41:00 March 3, 2005, Thursday (PST) |
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