I am now focusing exclusively on identity & services, true, but certain news about former interests of mine are just too good not to share. While evangelizing the web capabilities of WCF introduced in the framework 3.5, one of the most recurring questions was about hiding the svc extension for WCF services. That makes a lot of sense, since ideally a good RESTful URI (whatever that really means) should not give away the technology that is used to handle the resource and should not change when

Yesterday's big announcement was just a start. We have an even bigger one, hopefully today. Meanwhile, my Neudesic East team celebrated our big 1st year in the East by going to the Tropicana in Atlantic City. We had 36 people, gosh I remember when there were only 6 people. WCF/ADFS/Federated Security Michele has been busy! She has created a proxy wrapper for WCF clients that illustrates how to swallow timeout exceptions and recreate channels automatically when there is an exception that faults

One problem with the original version of CardSpace was that it seemed to reject some legitimate SSL sites, but like all tricky bugs, it didn’t happen consistently enough to be caught in the first release. What was going on was that sometimes CardSpace couldn’t validate the intermediate certificates in the certificate chain because of a disconnect with the browser’s certificate store. If intermediate certificates aren’t installed on a user’s computer, most browsers use

Last N&N was on the 9th and I don't know if I will able to maintain the series. I am extremely busy, and traveling on multiple projects. I also am not sure that my interests are what the current .NET blogging climate and community want to hear about but I will see how it goes for now. If you would like to post a reply on the worth of the series for you personally, it certainly wouldn't hurt :) BizTalk/BizTalk Server Via Marjan , BizTalk Hotrod Issue 3 is now ready.  You can pull

The OASIS Web Services Secure Exchange (WS-SX) technical committee has published specifications for WS-Security extensions and policies to enable the trusted exchange of SOAP messages. Their effort resulted in the WS-SX specifications that include WS-Trust , WS-Security policy and WS-Secure conversation. This standardization of WS-Trust is good news. Gartner says that: OASIS's ratification of two key standards means that Web services security has finally reached a level of maturity acceptable to

I knew it was coming so I stayed up extra late last night but not long enough :) Visual Studio 2008 Team Suite with the .NET Framework 3.5 is available on MSDN Subscriber Downloads ! While my copy is on the way, I would like to thank the whole extended team at Microsoft for an amazing product. I have been using the product in customer engagements for months now and the features have been extremely useful. One of my favorite new features is the great new support in VS2008 for WF and WCF integration

Today we released the .NET Framework 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008. Here are some key resources related to the release: Channel9 video describing the release Visual Studio 2008 Homepage on MSDN

So sayeth Don ? Soma's announced that Orcas will RTM this month . Lots of .NET families will have something extra to be thankful for next thursday

Finally! Its taken me like 5 years to get to 200. I sometimes I wish I was prolific like Mike Gunderloy. The really sad part is the first 3+ years of my blogs are not even up on the net right now as they are buried in a SQL Server database on an old host and in .TEXT format. Windows Workflow Windows Workflow Foundation Web Workflows Starter Kit - A starter kit Web application that includes task-oriented workflow using Windows Workflow Foundation. Simple Human Workflow QuickStart Sample Code - for

to change the world again1. Next up is Robert Wahbe, Corporate VP, who is responsible for CSD- 1000 people