Tuesday, October 08, 2002

ITxpo: Gartner grades the Web services standards. Analyst firm positive on most specs, although weaknesses remain [InfoWorld: Top News] "Beginning with SOAP, which received a grade of Strong Positive, the highest mark Perlstein handed out, he said that its strengths include broad vendor support, broad tool support, and is relatively easy to use.On the other hand, SOAP is still a specification, and as such has lots of security holes and scalability issues." 7:36:58 PM

There is a new MSDN article on .NET's No-Touch Deployment: This article demonstrates an exciting new feature to simplify deploying and updating a Windows Form Smart Client using a Web Server. The Task Management sample application referenced in this paper is provided in Visual Basic .NET. (yuck) 8:50:11 AM

Windows Services are difficult to create and debug. There is no user interaction by design, and the system usually has a hard time releasing the service once installed and ran. In the first part of this two-part series, Rob Chartier shows how to create an extensible Windows Service that accepts custom plug-ins and never needs modification. 8:47:38 AM

Chris Brooks pointed this C# SNMP Library out to me...I wonder if it's better to go lightweight like this when doing SNMP or to go through WMI? [Scott Hanselman's Weblog] 8:41:03 AM

Scott Hanselman is a kind new blogger with interests and links in .NET, as well as a visually appealing site. Welcome Scott! Rss-subscribed. 8:40:10 AM