Microsoft’s Atlas framework for AJaX got some harsh comments from Microsoft’s partner Wintellect about the lack of cross-browser interoperability. At the end of the day, AJaX really came up because tht different component frameworks and client capabilities are so disjoints,…
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David Chappell made some interesting remarks on Java and NetFX during his TechEd session and on his blog. He compares the creation of SCA by IBM, BEA and some others to the creation of the .NET Framework in 2000. I…
Finally – the confusion is complete: WinFX is now NetFX. Huh? The (likely) final name for the collection of .NET APIs formerly know as WinFX 3.0 (aka Avalon, Indigo and Workflow, but NOT WinFS) have a new name and community…
After J#, X# and some more abberations, Microsoft is now fiddeling with the idea of Script#. This is a code generation tool for JavaScript – you start with a C# class, run the ssc.exe compiler and get JavaScript from the…
Here is a nice little tweak for Visual Studio 2005: In a debug session with the default settings, you can only see “External Code” in the call stack for the Windows/.NET code base. If you go to Tools -> Options……
At this time, most of you have probably heard about the Web Services Interoperability Toolkit for Java (a.k.a. Project Tango), which enables maximal interoperability between the upcoming Windows Communication Foundation on .NET and the Java world. If not, go see…
Finally, with a lot of help from sgen.exe and a number of very talented inidividuals, I got the complex types to work this morning. The biggest issue was the way WCF compares Strings: Java does sttring interning, .NET does not…
Well, I really do not have any big secrets to uncover, but I wanted to point you WCF developers to an extremely useful tool: sgen.exe. In itself the tool is quite handy, since you can pre-generate and compile serialization code…
There is the obvious question on why FastInfoset and – more importantly for me at this time – why on Indigo (WCF)? A lot of customers – particularly in the financial industry – have expressed their concern about XML and…
My final project for this quarter’s Stanford course (MS&E 201: Dynamic Systems) is going to be quite interesting. We will try to understand the dynamics behind open source adoption and the challenges it brings for Microsoft. Microsoft Open Source Stanford…