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The missing WS-* Transaction Spec is ready
It was announced last October ... it's finally released: WS-BusinessActivity, the WS-* spec for long running business transactions. MSDN also put up a new article explaining how the various transaction related WS-* specs relate to each other.
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HOWTO: Registering the Feedster Office Research Service
Follow the instructions at:
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My experience writing an Office Research Service
I was quite intrigued by the idea of providing a research service for office. After all, this was the first real-world web-services based extension interface for a major application. I downloaded the Microsoft Ofiice 2003 Research SDK and got going.
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My Feedster Research Service
My current client is currently undergoing the zone transfer into the web services zone. Initially, they were looking for some help to pick the right approach to introduce web services into their organization. By now, they are very fired up about web service technology and find that web services and SOA solve many of their problems.
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Parasoft announces commercial WS-I Test Tools 1.0 implementation.
InfoWorld reports that Parasoft announced that it's 2.5 release of SOAPtest, which features Security tests and WS-I Test Tools 1.0 specifications.
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Another X# update. It's really not dead ...
Mary Jo at Microsoft-Watch confirms my suspicion that Xen is indeed The-Xml-based-programming-language-formerly-known-as-X# renamed -- and it's alive and kicking. Jorgen commented on it as well, and since he works on Don Box' Indigo team he should know what's going on there. In turn, I infer that his comment is an indirect confirmation of Mary Jo's statement.
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MVC Shootout In Austin, TX
Michael Stuart, lead developer of the .NET User Interface Application Block and Chuck Cavaness of Struts fame are presenting together at the Austin Software Architects User Group on 2/10. The ASAUG site has the details.
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DevDays in Texas
I'll be joining Markus Egger, Stephen Fulcher, Michael Stuart and many more interesting guys to speak at DevDays on ASP.NET Security in Houston on 3/1 and in Austin on 3/9. I am looking forward to seeing you there. If you're interested, you can register here.
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Welcome New XML MVPs
Congratulations to Jeff Julian, DonXML, Cazzu and Oleg for the MVP honors.
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The object of my (geekly) desire
Are you like me? You think Tablet PCs are really cool, but you want one that can do STUFF? Not one of those whimpy 800 Mhz Pentium III boxes? One where you can run all of the apps (Visual Studio, Eclipse, Virtual PC, BizTalk 2004) that you need when you work with web services. And you want one with a screen that' big enough you don't need to go and get new glasses?
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I thought X# was dead ?
Last month several blogs reported that the X# project would not result in a product in the forseeable future.
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Are You LinkedIn?
Has anyone else checked out: