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Here's the C# wizard for ASP.NET Soap Extensions. What works: It'll generate a compiling SoapExtension that will exactly do nothing. However, the code should have all the hooks to get started. What doesn't work: (a) You need to click on "Application Options" once to initialize the settings correctly. (b) I haven't had the time to test all option combinations. (c) Any project name that isn't a single word will likely cause the wizard to create garbage. (d) The namespace from the project settings page isn't picked up. (e) Probably several bugs in the template code. Purpose: Demonstrates that custom stuff can be plugged into VS.NET. Makes creating full SOAP Extensions a bit easier and helps understanding how they are built. What to do with it: If you need adjustments, poke around in the wizard's templates1033 subdir. How to install: Unpack the archive, read the readme.txt. It's just three steps. Unpack an archive, copy one file, edit one file. Once that's done, start VS.NET and try. And as always: It may just not work for you. If that's the case, mail me. 11:21:21 PM  comments []
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Martin Spedding, a good friend and excellent architect, just wrote in a chat on Messenger: "One thing I notice after September 11th a lot of weblogs mentioned the events but no mention of the atrocity in Bali...curious". He's right. 9:39:07 PM comments []
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Sharing a little secret from our calendar: Atlantis .NET Code Week: Nov 11th - Nov. 17th in Radovljica, Slovenia. (interactive map). While all advertising for this event is in Slovenian, the event itself is run in English with newtelligence material by myself and my partner Achim Oellers and open to anyone. The location is conveniently close to the Austrian and Italian borders. It's a week-long bootcamp on "all things .NET". The price is approx. USD/€ 2700 (625.000 SIT) plus applicable tax; registration is handled by Atlantis, seats are very limited. 10:59:45 AM comments []
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Reflecting on Web Services DevCon East. This conference was easily the best one I attended in a long time -- and I go to a lot of conferences. It's rare that I sit through nearly all talks anywhere, but this was definitely different. If any conference would ever be worth the "summit" moniker, this is it. The coolest aspect of the conference was that with all the Microsoft, IBM and Axis folks, the spirit of interop was in the air -- so much in contrast to the wars the kids in the newsgroups are waging. We may all have our own tastes regarding programming models, languages and runtimes, but we're happily agreeing on most things going on on the wire. Brian Jepson has a good review of all talks: Thursday, Friday. Regarding my talk at DevCon: I am trying to wrap up the setup for the very last demo, the "ASP.NET Soap Extension" wizard for C# in VS.NET today. Tim Ewald suggested that I make the various options switchable ([X] Extend WSDL, [X] Handle BeforeSerialize, etc.) before code generation and that's what I want to add before releasing it. The wizard will help you jump start writing the type of extensions that I have been developing over the past six months and which I showed in my talk. The Security and Transaction packages come with free source code and the Session and Management extensions come as a free binary package right now. I was stunned by the way my stuff was received and how most people in the audience hadn't seen those extensibility points in ASMX yet -- or at least not "in action". I would like to encourage everyone who hasn't done so yet to grab the security package and peek into the source code to find out what ASMX can do for you. Issues with my WS-Security stuff Having said that, there are a couple of issues with the current state of the security extensions that I am going to fix (and am already fixing) for a future build. These are mostly related to the Kerberos aspects and don't really affect functionality, but are rather related to the WS-Security mapping per se.
Like it or not, these standards are all in a 0.x release state and if I can't implement them on the current technology set, I am going to make them work for me. As long as I am using the defined extensibility points as defined in the specification (inventing your own security tokens is just fine) and as long as I don't cause collisions, all is cool. In a future build I'll also likely retire my own "user-name authentication" implementation and integrate the whole stuff with the Microsoft WSDK, including an attribute-driven mapping for Microsoft's X.509 authentication. The other stuff I showed how to use WMI to monitor you web services' activities for performance, logging and exception monitoring using the management extensions I wrote. Now, this stuff along with the session extensions is explicitly not "open source" and the license for the free download restricts use to evaluation, because ... well .. I am not as much Mother Teresa as it may seem. The current license is sufficient for demo purposes and that's what they were built for. If there is enough interest (enlist here: info@newtelligence.com), and it seems so right now, all of the extensions and a few more that we have brewing will be promoted from "demo status" to "production status", will get a serious review and some real QA, and they'll be available for commercial licensing as part of an "SDK subscription" (with full source), which will also include the Enterprise Services Utilities. As much as I enjoy doing these things and share them with everyone, we need to start covering our development cost in some way. Watch this space for this status going from "maybe" to "we'll do it". Workshops We have a "Web Services Architectural Guidance" workshop format available as part of our training & education portfolio. The workshop covers architectural considerations and challenges for building both public and intranet based web services. This workshop format has been co-developed with CBDi and Microsoft EMEA and can be customized for decision maker, architect and developer audiences. The architect and developer tracks include in-depth coverage of all the extensibility tips & tricks for ASP.NET-based Web Services (this is what the extension stuff was really built for). The workshop is immediately available for in-house delivery by us anywhere in the world. Based on interest by individuals, we'll also consider setting up central workshops at some locations. (training@newtelligence.com). 9:55:31 AM comments []
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