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Distributing SOA Information

As you might have guessed from the name of my blog, I have a long-term love of distributed applications. My infatuation with the technology actually goes back to earlier forms of COM+ and Web services. I believe that a well designed distributed application Read More...

Java, .NET, Web Services and Enums

While working on getting a Java Web service and a .NET Web service client to talk to one another, I ran into an interesting situation. The problem had to do with the WSDL being produced by the Java service. Actually, the entire process involved the following Read More...

Upgrading to WSE 3.0

If you weren’t aware, the version of WSE 3.0 built against the release version of Visual Studio was released on the Nov 7. I’m sure that it would have received launch parties and wide mention in blogs were it not for the conflicting launch Read More...

Toronto Code Camp Registration Opens

The rumours have been swirling. Now the truth is out. On Sat. Jan 14, there will be a Toronto Code Camp. You can register/find more infomation/hang out at http://www.torontocodecamp.com/ If you're a developer looking for in-depth content from the people Read More...

The end of Begin/End

While on my way back from the MVP Summit, I was playing around with some of the things I had discovered about VS 2005. I mean, if I was going to drip geekiness for the entire conference, why not extend it to the absolute limit. And what I found was something Read More...

The floodgates are...well...beginning to open

From a couple of different sources, I'm seeing that the first set of documentation for Indigo is now available at http://winfx.msdn.microsoft.com . And, as Andy Milligan suggests, the implication is that the bits for Indigo can't be far behind. Personally, Read More...

Caching and Unit Tests

We've been playing with the Caching Application Block here at the client I'm currently working with and have found a couple of important items that will be of interest to anyone doing the same. I should say that we're using NUnit to run our unit tests, Read More...

Improving the Performance of Asynchronous Web Service Calls

Notice that the name of this post doesn't say that web service performance can be improved through asynchronous calls. That is on purpose. This particular post deals with a limitation that impacts applications that utilize async web service methods. Actually, Read More...

Web Services and Proxy Servers

How to easily integrate proxy server settings into web service method calls. Read More...

Deserializing Objects

Another post about the deserialization of objects after a web service call. In this particular scenario, the web service method was returning an ArrayList. On the client side, I was expecting to see a number of different types of objects. But one of the Read More...
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