Wow, my post on the pet shop application has generated quite a few comments.  I wanted to clear up a couple of things, and make a couple of comments.  1. I personally believe you can write perform...

I don’t just mean GUI design - I mean the down-and-dirty work with Windows user interface controls.  I had almost forgotten. 95% of my work today is server-side code, and most of that directly rel...

Someone just posted a link to this benchmarking research done by Middleware Company on the WinTech Offtopic list. Considering Middleware Co. specializes in Java technology training, you’d be skepti...

I’ve gotten a bunch of e-mail recently, asking how to use the debugger when using my Basic or Digest authentication HTTP modules.  The problem is, if you disable Integrated Windows authentication o...

Prompted by a few questions, I thought I’d post about using my Basic and Digest authentication modules with .NET remoting. As you’re probably aware, .NET remoting does not include (out of the box) ...

There was a lot of talk at the DevCon about writing your web service interface first in WSDL, and then implementing it in code.  This is in contrast to the method that the current tools tend to enc...

I’m leaving in the morning for the Web Services DevCon.  If anyone who’s going wants to meet up out there, send me a note!

A dozen or so of us have been tossing around a lot of great ideas in the Groove Experiments shared space. One of our concerns, of course, is how to seemlessly share our findings publically with a w...

Similarly, Sabre Inc. (www.sabre.com) provides customers access to its Web services by supplying a module that runs on its partners’ Web sites. The XML Travel Toolkit module is designed to let part...

Microsoft Corp. and IBM, which, along with VeriSign Inc., published the original Web Services-Security specification, are now in two camps that have contrasting views over what should be done with ...