Thursday, September 12, 2002

Multithreaded .NET Web Service Clients. Ian Griffiths and Chris Sells "Unresponsive programs are extremely frustrating to use. Applications that sometimes freeze for a moment are a source of much irritation, especially if they don't provide any feedback on what they are doing, or how long it is likely to be before they start responding again. This behaviour can be particularly common among applications that use remote facilities such as Web services. This article describes how to maintain responsiveness in .NET Windows Forms rich client applications, even when invoking potentially long-running Web services, by using multiple threads." [sellsbrothers.com: Windows Developer News] 10:45:26 AM

Less Than 40 Seats Left at the Web Services DevCon. Register now for the Web Services DevCon, October 10-11 in greater Boston, featuring Don Box, Tim Ewald and keynote speaker Sam Ruby. In addition to amazing talks by Microsoft’s Web Services Program Manager, Keith Ballinger, and IBM Distinguished Engineer, Noah Mendelsohn, as well as wizened practitioners from HP, Macromedia and the W3C, all attendees receive exclusive SellsBrothers t-shirts available nowhere else. Register now! [sellsbrothers.com: Windows Developer News] 10:44:12 AM

Jim Allchin wants more consumer oriented Web Services. "When we look out on the landscape, we don't see enough Web sites--and, in particular, customer-facing sites--that have XML Web services interfaces that people can take advantage of," Jim Allchin, Microsoft's senior vice president for Windows, told CNET News.com [via CNET News.com] [Paresh Suthar's Radio Weblog] Maybe if they implemented all of GXA (specs does not equal robust proven implementations) and had it out there in full, we would. Right now, there isn't enough of a robust infrastructure and services for consumer oriented Web Services. 5:37:12 AM

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