Tuesday, April 09, 2002

Evolving an Interface At Your Service Evolving an Interface by Scott Seely Scott Seely shows how to update your Web service with new versions, adding new features to the implementations of the WSDL. (April 9, 2002) 10:41:39 PM

C++ Expert Bobby Schmidt back at Microsoft - yay! Back again at MSDN and writing on my favorite subject - Managed C++. Some tidbits: Why this second fork? Because the .NET Framework is a big deal to Microsoft, yet Visual C++ on that Framework has received almost no compelling coverage from anyone. If you didn't look too closely, you'd almost think Microsoft® Visual Basic® and Visual C#™ were the only "real" languages for .NET that Microsoft provided. I quite nearly (and inadvertently) even promoted that ideology with the aborted C# project. But after spending quality time with the Visual C++ team, I'm now thoroughly convinced that their product is vital to Microsoft and its developer customers, a.k.a. you. I'm also convinced of their deep and abiding commitment to both Visual C++ as a technology and Standard C++ as a language. Well whadya know? These two interests serendipitously align with my column orientation. Such luck! And they say the universe is so big and improbable… To be sure, we are not close to fully realizing either of these interests: The existing Managed Extensions to C++ are passably useful but incomplete and often clumsy. While the standard-conformance in Visual C++ .NET exceeds that of Visual C++ 6.0, there are still significant parts of the standard left unimplemented. 10:40:33 PM

Is it a Planet or Software? Peter reports on Saturn: Cool! Here's something you don't see every day from Microsoft - an ASP.NET IDE and Web Server that fits on a floppy! Codenamed Saturn, the web site is giving a 403 right now (I'm guessing someone, somewhere's will have mirrored it :-) ), but you can still download a article about it from NeoWin.net. I wonder if they will release the source for the IDE, like SharpDevelop? Maybe under a Shared Source licence? (After all, it's not as if anyone's going to build a business selling IDEs competing against VS.NET) [Peter Drayton's Radio Weblog] The .NET Mailing list adds: Well, Scott Mitchell (of 4GuysFromRolla fame) wrote the whitepaper referenced in that article - isn't he on this list? Scott, is there anything you're allowed to tell us about this? Is it for real? To sum up the document in question, Saturn is apparently going to be a stripped-down version of VS.NET, from MS, especially for doing ASP.NET development, and it's free. With SharpDevelop for your back-end components and Saturn for the ASP.NET pages, you'd have a fairly complete ASP.NET development solution for zero dollars... Here's somewhere to keep an eye on... http://projectsaturn.net   8:23:44 PM

Interview with Dr. JIm Gray and other "database debunkings" Giorgio's Radio] has some interesting links: Comments on an Interview with Jim Gray The Cloak of Ignorance: Trade Media and Database "Reporting" Your integrity, normalization, and relational model questions answered [Database debunkings] [Giorgio's Radio Weblog] This is a real nice find. Thanks Giorgio for the links and your radio site. 8:36:40 AM

Creating and Using Custom SOAP Headers Creating and Using Custom SOAP Headers This quick demo shows you how to create and consume a .NET Web Service using a custom SOAP Header. 8:26:17 AM

Windows Forms FAQ Windows Forms FAQ Extensive coverage of several commonly asked Windows Forms questions. FAQ is maintained and updated on a regular basis by George Shepherd, a leading author (of "MFC internals" fame). Boy, is this site ever needed! Nicely organized too. 8:22:04 AM

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