All About Interop
Connecting .NET to just about anything else
Enable .NET 3.5 goodies in IIS vdir
Some of you may be oddballs like me: you like .NET, you program in .NET, but you don't always use...
Date: 12/05/2008
Geneva supports OASIS WS-Trust, SAML
Last week at the PDC 2008, Microsoft released the public beta of “Geneva”. “Geneva” is three things:...
Date: 11/07/2008
Connect WebSphere and Java applications to SQL Server
FYI: The MS JDBC Driver is completely tested by IBM for use with WebSphere App Server v6.1 and v7.0....
Date: 11/05/2008
REST in WCF: Varying response content type based on HTTP Request Headers
Damian Mehers made a comment on my blog post from April, but I felt it was worth a full reblog....
Date: 11/04/2008
It just got easier to build REST apps in .NET
The REST starter kit that we launched at PDC is now live! :: https://www.msdn.com/wcf/rest . The WCF...
Date: 10/29/2008
Microsoft joins AMQP
Microsoft joins AMQP It's very good to see this. For those that don't know, AMQP is the Advanced...
Date: 10/24/2008
IIRF v1.2.15 is released - open source URL Rewriting on IIS6
I have previously written about IIRF. Here I go again: IIRF has now has been updated to v1.2.15....
Date: 10/15/2008
DotNetZip revs to v1.6 – now with Unicode support
The v1.6 release of DotNetZip is now available. DotNetZip is the open source Zip Library for .NET,...
Date: 10/14/2008
Eclipse tools for Silverlight and .NET
There is now an Eclipse project, Eclipse4SL, to produce tools that work with Microsoft Silverlight....
Date: 10/13/2008
WSDL-First in WCF, versus WSDL-First in ASMX
I wanted to point something out regarding the WSDL-First item I posted yesterday. This is a look at...
Date: 09/25/2008
Flatten your WSDL with this Custom ServiceHost for WCF
Yesterday I mentioned using a custom service host to flatten the WSDL that is generated by a WCF...
Date: 09/23/2008
Custom Config file for a WCF Service hosted in IIS
I am constantly developing new WCF services to try out various techniques, ideas, scenarios. Many...
Date: 09/22/2008
DotNetZip users: Please Test Unicode support (free zip library for .NET)
DotNetZip is an open-source library to allow any .NET application to read and create zip files. If...
Date: 09/19/2008
Profiles in Microsoftee-hood
I hadn't seen Microspotting before - consider me educated. It's a blg site run by a Microsoft...
Date: 09/16/2008
Many many LINQ Providers
When LINQ shipped, it included a provider model, to encourage people to make other systems and data...
Date: 09/12/2008
Using the WSDL-First design approach with WCF services
Couple of helpful posts from the archives for you. If you are care about interop, then you probably...
Date: 09/05/2008
Web services interop with WCF - Relevant Forum Questions
I was just browsing the WCF forum on MSDN. Here's a summary of the recent interesting threads...
Date: 09/04/2008
How to Build REST apps on .NET using WCF
There's a new screencast series on building services using the WCF part of .NET. The first few are...
Date: 08/22/2008
Editing XAML in Emacs
Luis Diego Fallas provides some hints. He uses a RELAX NG based parser called nXML mode for emacs....
Date: 08/21/2008
REST Q & A - enough already
Tim Bray at Sun has some questions and comments on REST. First, let me say that the religious wars...
Date: 08/18/2008
HOW TO: Configure the jakarta Tomcat connector for IIS (serve JSP from IIS)
Steve Sfartz offers a tip for configuring the Tomcat connector on IIS, to allow IIS and Tomcat to...
Date: 08/12/2008
Microsoft + Apache = ?
You saw the big news: Microsoft announced that it will give $100k to the Apache Software Foundation....
Date: 08/07/2008
Microsoft Becomes a Platinum Sponsor of Apache Foundation
Ha! It happened, just not in the way I thought it might. In February, I wrote that Microsoft, if...
Date: 08/06/2008
Oslo sessions at PDC 2008
https://sessions.microsoftpdc.com/public/sessions.aspx "Oslo": Managing Software + Services...
Date: 08/01/2008
More on non-standard RPC protocols - Cisco Etch
I came across this old bit of news - In May, Cisco joined the ranks of vendors that want to...
Date: 08/01/2008
Changing of the Guard: AXIS out, JAXWS in
I have come to a conclusion: I no longer want to deal with the hassle that has become Apache AXIS....
Date: 07/30/2008
Connecting to Exchange using JAX-WS, part 1
Yes, it is possible to Connect to Exchange using JAX-WS The fear and trepidation I had when...
Date: 07/29/2008
SourceCodeViewerTest
dp.SyntaxHighlighter.ClipboardSwf =...
Date: 07/25/2008
Connecting Java to Exchange over WebDAV, with Apache HttpClient
Earlier I mentioned a Java Exchange Connector I had seen, and in that post I also said that I had...
Date: 07/21/2008
What is Scalability? Do I have Extreme Requirements?
Can I turn my Volvo into an F1 Racer? I am a fan of auto racing. I started following racing way, way...
Date: 07/17/2008
.NET Terrarium - it's BAAAAAACK!
Remember Terrarium? It was a .NET 1.0 learning tool disguised as a game. Microsoft released a...
Date: 07/16/2008
New WCF + WF blog: Endpoint
A New Blog started last week, aggregating WCF and WF topics. If you're like me you have really good...
Date: 07/07/2008
More on PowerShell Interop - this time with Tibco EMS
Keeping on the theme of PowerShell interop.... Marc Adler wrote up a short, sweet little CmdLet for...
Date: 07/02/2008
PowerShell CMDLets for WebSphere MQ - administer queues on Windows or Linux
Last year, I wrote about the idea of PowerShell CmdLets for WebSphere MQ. PowerShell is a beautiful...
Date: 06/30/2008
Create Zip files within Powershell
You can use DotNetZip library from within Powershell. It's pretty simple, fast, easy. example:...
Date: 06/26/2008
Questions on Interoperability? Check the Forums !
Microsoft has migrated its interop discussion forum to a new forum engine. Find it at:...
Date: 06/26/2008
DotNetZip, open source library for .ZIP files, revs to v1.5 - nice ASP.NET capability
DotNetZip, the open source Zip Library for .NET, is now at v1.5. Find it at...
Date: 06/20/2008
OpenID and ASP.NET MVC interop
Another one of those in-case-you-missed-it posts: Scott Hanselman's done a good review of the...
Date: 06/20/2008
Microsoft System Center will manage Linux apps and assets
In case you missed it, this is from 6 weeks ago, on a Port25 post from Sam Ramji: Today, Bob Muglia...
Date: 06/19/2008
Open Source and Interoperability
Open. Source. Is. Not. Interoperability. Ted Neward is an entertaining and talented writer, not to...
Date: 06/18/2008
Rewriting URLs on IIS5, IIS6, or IIS7 (mod_rewrite on IIS?)
A couple weeks ago, Bill Staples made a splash when he announced a Rewrite Module for IIS7:...
Date: 06/18/2008
Java Exchange Connector and EWSJ
Just saw this on TheServerSide.com. The Exchange Web Services for Java (EWSJ - what happened to the...
Date: 06/17/2008
Microsoft Platform services
Microsoft has a new web page up covering a collection of hosted platform services. Worth checking...
Date: 06/16/2008
DotNetZip now can save directly to ASP.NET Response.OutputStream
Did you ever want to zip up a file within an ASP.NET page, and then send it as a download for the...
Date: 06/04/2008
Updated site for BizTalk Server
We've updated the BizTalk Server web site, it looks pretty nice. I think the 3D warped spiderman web...
Date: 06/03/2008