Winterdom

In case anyone is wondering where I've been lately (yes, I know no one does, but it never hurst to say it anyway ;)), here's it: As we approached the final milestone of our current project, we had to dive a little bit harder than usual as we were kinda...

Simon Fell comments on my earlier question regarding binary attachments and WebServices. Thanks for the candid question, Simon, I appreciated. What you say rings with the same thoughts I had on the subject myself...

Someone at work asked me recently if it was possible to carry arbitrary binary attachments alongside XML data in a webservice (in his case, he wanted to pass around some images alongside their metadata). Now, I know it is possible, that's not an issue... the issue is: which way is...

Grunt. I'm really wishing I had an MSMQ transport implementation for WSE 2.0 available now. I know some people are working on it, but nothing seems to be released yet :P Update: minutes after posting this, John Bristowe emailed me with this. Thanks! I'll try it out this weekend and...

Last week, I was visiting one of our customers, and so we started to discuss some ideas they were floating around for a possible serviced-based implementation of a new functionality into their applications. Then, it hit me: All he was talking about would've been almost trivially solvable by using logical...

After last night's entry, I got today an email from Becky Dias. I figure it's OK to answer it publicly.. (I'm only gonna quote the relevant parts here) Rebecca says "The extension of the support policy was supposed to make customers happy.". It does!. I don't think any of us...

After reading Rebecca Dias' entry on the future of SOAP Toolkit, I'm a bit baffled by all this. Quite honestly, I find some of her comments somewhat naive, and hard to believe, also. Let me explain why. Rebecca mentions that "The SOAP Toolkit was deprecated by the .NET Framework". Are...

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As everybody knows, WSE 2.0 was released last week. One thing I find myself wishing for was to be able to use Simon's excellent TcpTrace with the TCP Transport in WSE. Alas, WSE doesn't like it when the reply endpoint is on a different port than the request (it's possibly...

I've always liked my desktop to look good; amazingly enough, it helps me be more productive. Now, by good I'm not only talking about making it look pretty, but also about making it as unobtrussive as possible. Mostly, I try to look for something that I can stare at all...