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Doug Purdy on Remoting by ChristophDotNet

About a month ago, there was a flurry of activity around the question if remoting is dead. Now some people think that it's not dead, it just smells funny. However, Doug Purdy pointed out today in his versioning talk at TechEd that a number of features...
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I'm the Indigo guesser! by ChristophDotNet

Didn't I speculate that we'll see Indigo before Longhorn a little while ago? Here's what Eric Rudder says now: "We have the ability to release Indigo Web services technology and have it run on Windows Server 2003, have it run on Windows XP client and...
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Speculating On Indigo, again by ChristophDotNet

Time for me to start my next round of Indigo speculations. Microsoft-watch.com had some articles speculation about a server OS release: http://www.microsoft-watch.com/article2/0,1995,1543491,00.asp and another one that rumors that the Longhorn shipdate...
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Desiging SOAs With Orchestrations by ChristophDotNet

I am pondering about some basic patterns of service oriented architecture design. I am trying to figure out if it's a good pattern to always abstract a service behind an orchestration. The benefits are: Easy integration with other available services for...
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The XmlFormatter Architecture in Indigo by ChristophDotNet

Indigo will ship another object <--> XML “converter“, the XmlFormatter. The XmlFormatter feels like the successor to the SoapFormatter. It doesn't have the limitations of the XmlSerializer, but doesn't allow for the customization of...
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Waiting for the first Indigo talk? by ChristophDotNet

Why should I wait? The HOL section for Indigo is pretty empty right now. We're talking about 15 machines with Longhorn, the SDK and Whidbey loaded, ready with exercises to get your first run through some Indigo classes. You also have Indigo team members...
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State of the WS-Union as of 9/2003 by ChristophDotNet

I am reading the article Secure, Reliable, Transacted Web Services: Architecture and Composition on MSDN. It is a comprehensive summary of the specification comprising the current state of the Web Services techology stack. The article touches on the recently released specs for WS-AtomicTransaction and WS-BusinessActivity (which will be published soon according to Omri Gazitt) and concludes explaining the architecture of the Web Services/SOA demo given recently by Bill Gates and IBM's Steve Mills...
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Indigo ... my next guess by ChristophDotNet

OK ... Summing up the hints on Don's blog : Indigo ... Handles transactions Has an XML protocol stack Has a Network Stack Features call contexts Web Services will become more distributed in nature (private source) given that and the PDC sessions, all...
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Don hints more in Indigo by ChristophDotNet

Well, Don did give away another tidbit on Indigo , but he also hints that my guess about Hailstorm isn't too far off. Is it October yet?
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Microsoft talks more about Indigo by ChristophDotNet

Not too long ago, I had some Microsoft employees evading all questions on Indigo. Now they just published the Conference Tracks and Breakout Sessions for the PDC and the word “Indigo” is all over it. I am psyched to find out what it is......
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