Mark Fussell's WebLog
Distributed Life.
Back up for air at PDC2008 with Dublin
I haven't written in my blog for a long time, well over two years. Sometimes you just loose the...
Date: 10/27/2008
Car Anti-Innovation
Here is an interesting fact that I read in the latest edition of the BBC Wildlife magazine which I...
Date: 05/26/2006
So you want to learn WSE 3.0? A short primer on how and where to start.
A question that I often get asked is - How do I get started learning about WSE 3.0 and what...
Date: 05/26/2006
MapCruncher - A seriously cool map mashup creation tool
I went to a talk today on the newly released MapCuncher tool and was awed by its capabilities and...
Date: 05/26/2006
WSE 3.0 in June 2006 MSDN Magazine
Great to see Aaron continuing to give WSE 3.0 love in his Service Station column. Now I just have to...
Date: 05/24/2006
WSE 3.0 - Kerberos, Secure Conversation and Stateful SCTs
I thought that I would publish some discussion threads on WSE issues that I have had recently that...
Date: 03/08/2006
New WSE 3.0 Content
Plenty of content continues to get produced for WSE 3.0. Working with Ron Jacobs and Don Smith we...
Date: 03/08/2006
WSE 3.0 Webcasts and MSDN Articles
Don Smith has posted links to some WSE 3.0 webcasts based on the WS-Security patterns and practices...
Date: 01/16/2006
Web Service Security Patterns and Practices
The PAG guys (Jason Hogg, Don Smith) have been getting some great WSE 3.0 Security content together....
Date: 11/11/2005
What next?
Now that I have shipped WSE 3.0, a year to the day that I started on the project, a number of people...
Date: 11/11/2005
WSE 3.0 and MSDN TV
I did this MSDN TV piece on WSE 3.0. Enjoy.
Date: 11/11/2005
WSE 3.0 Docs now on MSDN
You can find them here. There is always more information that we would like to have in the...
Date: 11/11/2005
Final Version of WSE 3.0 Released to MSDN
WSE 3.0 has just been released to MSDN to coincide with the launch of Visual Studio 2005. You can...
Date: 11/07/2005
Want PDC?
Then see here in all its glory.
Date: 10/25/2005
What's happening with WSE 3.0
If you look at the Web Services Developer Center at the moment you will see that the headlines are...
Date: 10/20/2005
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Date: 07/07/2005
Get WSE 3.0 and WS-ReliableMessaging
George is a dev/architect who has spent over eight months building a complete implementation of...
Date: 06/27/2005
What's New in WSE 3.0 MSDN Article
I have written an article on What is New for WSE 3.0 which has now been posted on the Web Services...
Date: 06/25/2005
System.Xml v2 Articles posted by Alex Homer
Alex has written two good overview articles on System.Xml in .NET v2.0 - part 1 on the XmlReader and...
Date: 06/22/2005
Anders Hejlsberg on XML and Programming Languages
One good reason to sign up for PDC 2005 is to hear Anders elaborate more on this work
Date: 06/14/2005
.NET 2.0 XML Perf Comparison with Sun
As presented in my article on System.Xml Beta 1 (which was effectively re-written into the Beta 2...
Date: 06/14/2005
WSE 3.0 Released on MSDN
Having spent the last few months getting WSE 3.0 built, it is now live on MSDN here. This includes...
Date: 06/03/2005
Re-living my youth
Back in the heady days of 1977 I caught a train down to Brighton on the south coast of England and...
Date: 04/06/2005
WSE now enabled on the MSDN Product Feedback Center
Plenty has been written in blogs about the MSDN Product Feedback Center which enables you to report...
Date: 04/06/2005
ADO.NET and System.Xml v. 2.0--The Beta Version (2nd Edition) now Published
In time for the upcoming Visual Studio 2005 and .NET v2.0 Beta 2 release, the updated version of my...
Date: 03/23/2005
WSE 2.0 SP3 Released to MSDN
WSE 2.0 SP3 has just been released on MSDN here. There are no additional new features just stress,...
Date: 02/28/2005
Combining the XmlReader and XmlWriter classes for simple streaming transformations
The XmlReader and XmlWriter classes can often be combined to provide simple streaming...
Date: 02/12/2005
Cisco entering the XML hardware processing market
As I have discussed in this blog previously, I believe that there in an inexorable move towards XML...
Date: 02/11/2005
System.Xml V2 book - C'est Fini
I finished reviewing the final versions of my chapters for the ADO.NET and System.Xml v 2.0 book...
Date: 02/04/2005
VSLive SF and WSE
I will be at VSLive in SF arriving on Sunday evening to give two short 30 minute talks on WSE 2.0....
Date: 02/04/2005
WSE 2.0 Hands on Labs (HOLs) now hosted in virtual labs on MSDN
I have spent a fair amount of time with the WSE HOLs in the last 2 months, fixing them up for the...
Date: 01/27/2005
MTOM goes to Rec with W3C
The MTOM spec has been made official with the W3C by moving to REC status. This is good news for WSE...
Date: 01/27/2005
Binary XML: A Stillborn Spec.
I read with continued dismay another article about binary XML and the bizarre Fast Infoset project....
Date: 01/14/2005
My Books
This is a list of books that I have published. ADO.NET and System.Xml v. 2.0 -The Beta Version (2nd...
Date: 01/03/2005
Mark Fussell's Biography
Mark is a Lead Program Manager at Microsoft working on distributed system technologies and manages...
Date: 01/03/2005
Smart Watch Frustration - A Christmas tale of woe
I must by cursed to never have a working Smart watch. I seem to part of an insanity experiment. Here...
Date: 12/23/2004
System.Xml V2 Decisions
Arpan has posted on some of the reasons for XmlDocument being the main XML store in System.Xml and...
Date: 12/16/2004
WSE 2.0 SP2 released to MSDN
WSE 2.0 SP2 final bits have just been released to the WSE MSDN site. Here are the links. Web...
Date: 12/03/2004
WSE 2.0 SP2 Pre-release Announcement
Hervey has posted the details of the pre-release on his blog. The download links are: WSE 2.0 SP2...
Date: 11/22/2004
First Solo Sail
I did my first solo sail on the waters of lake Union in Seattle yesterday. It reminder me of the...
Date: 11/22/2004
Beta Book Pain, Performance Love
Writing books on beta products is probably the most painful thing that you can ever endure even if...
Date: 11/12/2004
WSE 3.0 Feature List
Aaron has kick started a list of what he believes are important features in future versions of WSE....
Date: 11/11/2004
Life now as the WSE Program Manager
With much of the work done for version 2.0 of System.Xml and with Dare’s departure from the XML team...
Date: 11/11/2004
Using the XmlSecureResolver to restrict access to web sites
Having just written an article on XmlResolver and looked through the MSDN docs I realised that there...
Date: 10/15/2004
System.Xml Beta 2 Changes
Dare and I compiled the Upcoming Changes to System.Xml in .NET Framework 2.0 Beta 2 which he...
Date: 10/15/2004