Don Smith
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The first of many ARCasts on Web Service Security
Just got the email from Ron that he's just posted an ARCast on Web service security. I'm listening...
Author: LockSmithDon Date: 01/30/2006
Message Protection
I look in the window of his office and he's banging away on the keyboard. It doesn't look like he's...
Author: LockSmithDon Date: 01/27/2006
How confident are you?
If you are building connected systems, how confident are you that Microsoft is doing the right thing...
Author: LockSmithDon Date: 11/28/2005
Jason is blogging ... woohoo!
It's about time! Jason is the program manager on the Integration & Web Service program on the...
Author: LockSmithDon Date: 11/20/2005
Prizes for best bugs
Jason is offering prizes for the best bugs found in our October CTP release of the Web Service...
Author: LockSmithDon Date: 10/21/2005
Web Service Security Patterns: October CTP Released
I'm a couple days late with this entry, but I'd be remiss for not mentioning it at all. This release...
Author: LockSmithDon Date: 10/20/2005
What-We-Are-Up-To Webcast
I'm sitting here with Ron Jacobs, Eugenio Pace, and Tom Hollander in the MS Studios as we're getting...
Author: LockSmithDon Date: 10/06/2005
Principles of Web Service Design
John Evdemon just published 2 articles on the principles of web service design. The first one is...
Author: LockSmithDon Date: 08/19/2005
Interested in secure, interoperable web services?
Well, then you may want to tune into a webcast we're recording live on Thursday the 25th. You can...
Author: LockSmithDon Date: 08/17/2005
Web Service Security Patterns: August CTP just dropped
Just a quick note to let you know that we just posted the August CTP release of the security...
Author: LockSmithDon Date: 08/17/2005
You're out of excuses
Admittedly this guide is probably late for some of you ... but others of you still have VB6 apps out...
Author: LockSmithDon Date: 08/13/2005
What you can expect to find here
You may not know this, but the patterns & practices team is pretty amped about making stuff that...
Author: LockSmithDon Date: 08/12/2005
Microsoft Web Services and Other Distributed Technologies Developer Center
I'll just lay the canned spiel on ya: MSDN is pleased to announce the launch of the new Microsoft...
Author: LockSmithDon Date: 07/22/2005
Web Services Security Patterns ... finally
The patterns & practices team has been working on a set of Web service security patterns for a...
Author: LockSmithDon Date: 07/12/2005
OT: If you're not using Virtual PC ... you should be
Okay, before I go anywhere, I want to give 100% credit for this post to John Bristowe. He showed me...
Author: LockSmithDon Date: 06/16/2005
What document-oriented means to me
I'm WAY behind on my blog reading (and writing) ... so, in an attempt to recify that, I'm going back...
Author: LockSmithDon Date: 06/14/2005
Ever have one of those days?
You know the kind of day I'm talking about. One of those days when the sun it warmer, the clouds are...
Author: LockSmithDon Date: 05/27/2005
Deciding local-or-remote at runtime
I've seen a number of Web service implementations where there was a possibility that when deployed,...
Author: LockSmithDon Date: 05/11/2005
Dynamic portTypes and Grid Computing?
I was onsite with a customer the other day discussing the architecture of one of their future...
Author: LockSmithDon Date: 05/01/2005
Versioning at Tech-Ed 2005
I'm going to be doing a session at Tech-Ed in June titled, Versioning services and contracts on the...
Author: LockSmithDon Date: 03/09/2005
WSE 2.0 SP3 Released
WSE 2.0 SP3 was released on MSDN today. This was a release designed to fix important security and...
Author: LockSmithDon Date: 03/01/2005
SOAP Toolkit or COM Interop?
If you have the requirement to consume a Web service from unmanaged/native code (like VB 6.0), your...
Author: LockSmithDon Date: 02/16/2005
WSDL.EXE problem with BEA WSDL
As it turns out, using the 1.x builds of the .NET Framework, wsdl.exe (and VS.NET) are sometimes...
Author: LockSmithDon Date: 01/06/2005
A VS.NET Add-In for "Contract First" development
Disclaimer: There is a good chance you have already heard of this Add-In and/or the concept of...
Author: LockSmithDon Date: 12/03/2004
Versioning Web Service Parameters
Dare makes a few comments about one of my previous posts so I thought - in true blogsphere fashion -...
Author: LockSmithDon Date: 12/03/2004
MSN Spaces Goes Beta
This is huge! I'm actually writing this entry before the beta goes into effect (about 4 hours from...
Author: LockSmithDon Date: 12/01/2004
One parameter to rule them all: Part 2
In my post yesterday, I recommended that Web Service operations should only have a single input...
Author: LockSmithDon Date: 11/29/2004
Two Web Service "Don'ts"
There are at least 2 things I'm still seeing in some web service implementations we should not be...
Author: LockSmithDon Date: 11/27/2004