Saturday, June 29, 2002

Sam comments on the newtelligence Web Services Extensions for ASP.NET, saying "This is great news. I know of at least one company desiring .NET implementations of WS-Security". Although I was pretty excited when I first read about the toolkit because this would be the first .NET implementation of WS-Security, reading the licence took the edge off a little - even though it's TechEd 2002 demo code, it's not like most of the Microsoft samples that you can take and use in your own apps at your own risk. The source isn't yet available and the licence is for "educational and noncommercial use only" - basically it allows you to download and test the software on one machine only & lasts for 30 days from the initial download. The web site doesn't state clearly if this is going to be a product at some point in the future, hopefully it will be. In any event, we should definitely thank Clemens et al for doing the work, but this isn't yet the 100% solution for ISVs waiting on .NET WS-Security toolkits. [Peter Drayton's Radio Weblog] Shoot. Thanks Peter for looking into that. That pretty much makes it only useful for me to learn from and not much else then. Sigh. 7:18:34 PM

Web Service Extensions for ASP.NET - incl WS_SECURITY Clemens Vasters announced the newtelligence Web Service Extensions for ASP.NET. From the announcement: "...experimental implementation for WS-Security's Kerberos and Username Authentication, propagate two-phase commit transactions via TIP, allow cookieless, header-based session management and...classes for management and performance metering". [Peter Drayton's Radio Weblog] Thus is great news. I know of at least one companu desiring .NET implementations of WS_SECURITY. Thanks! 1:04:12 PM

MCAD for Microsoft.NET coming to a workplace near you MCAD for Microsoft .NET. Microsoft has just announced the Microsoft Certified Application Developer credential [link]. Sorry no C++ for now :) This begs the question, how important is it to be certified ? [/serdar/] [Wrinkled Paper] Oh joy. So we can have another generation of "certified" Microsoft programmers who have no clue other than to answer  memorized questions and no job experience or data structures or fundamentals (Brad Wilson is exempted because he is a bone fide .NET and overall wizard). I can't wait. 12:17:26 PM

The answer is in the Source, Luke Thank-you Microsoft [IUnknown.com: John Lam's Weblog on Software Development] Great point (that all the answers can be found in the sources). I wish the .NET wannabes would hear and stop asking "Do I need to install the runtime to run my .NET program on Grandma's machine?" Yes , its still happening constantly!! 12:12:09 PM

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