WS-I Basic Profile Testing Tools
ASP.NET Web Services with .NET 2.0 will include testing for Basic Profile compliance. In the mean time, the WS-I has testing tools written in both C# and Ja...
Pregenerated XmlSerializer assemblies with .NET 1.1
With .NET 2.0, there is an SDK tool sgen that allows you to pregenerate the assemblies produced by the XmlSerializer. When you instantiate an XmlSerializer o...
Detecting and Resolving Stalled and Stuck I/O…
Detecting and Resolving Stalled and Stuck I/O Issues in SQL Server 2000 SP 4 is an interesting article highlighting the changes in SP4 that help to diagnose...
SOA: Myth or reality?
There is a continuing (and welcome) debate about the merits of “SOA”, although the position of some contributors doesn’t seem to be coming across very clearl...
WS-* vs. Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)
Tomas Restrepo calls out Richard Turner for not being very pragmatic. Richard outlines his opposition to building a communications “bus” for the enterprise ...
ASMX 2.0 - Now with Basic Profile 1.1 Conformance
A few weeks ago, I wrote about the Basic Profile support in ASP.NET Web Services (ASMX) with .NET 2.0. Since then, Beta 2 has been released changing the det...
Pragmatic Service Orientation
There is a lot of industry buzz around service orientation and “SOA” and a number of prominent voices within Microsoft are trying hard to articulate the appr...