I you would like to understand better what Sun Microsystems is doing in the context of Web Services interoperability, particularly with Microsoft’s upcoming Windows Communication Foundataion (formerly Codename Indigo), please take a look at Harold’s article. http://weblogs.java.net/blog/haroldcarr/archive/2006/02/an_overview_of_1.html#more He…
Category: Microsoft
My quest for getting offline files to behave in the way I would like them to behave continues. Now that I have my laptop back, I dumped the old one and started to use the real system again [1]. One…
Interesting timing: just as ATOM 1.0 is finally becoming an IETF/W3C standard, Microsoft publishes her extension to RSS 2.0 here. While the Microsoft extensions are licensed under the Creative Commons ShareAlike license and Microsoft also seems to pledge to not…
It seems that Microsoft Office Activation is more sensitive to hardware changes than Windows: after restoring my desktop from one laptop to the other (see below), Windows worked out of the box. However, Office complained about the need to re-activate.…
While this might sound quite boring for most of you, but I am rather relieved that NTBackup works .. I just had to send in my laptop, since it developed a nasty vertical bar (2 inches – 5 cm, in…
Once more, Microsoft is targeting ECMA as the consortium to sign of on their technology. Just as a few years ago, when they submitted parts of the CLR and C#. This time it is the Office ’12’ formats, which have…
… is a no-go. Please read Rob’s blog entry about WinFX not being supported on the October 05 CTP release of Vista.
I truly love Offline Files (client side caching – CSC) on Windows machines, particularly in combination with Folder Redirection and DFS: in my setup, I have My Documents redirected to a DFS domain root and cache all the documents I…
Longhorn Server is a strange beast: I was just starting to play with AD on Longhorn server (PDC, Build 5219) and wanted to startup my favorite AD tool, ntdsutil.exe to poke around in the AD settings .. it’s gone (so…
I was getting a little interested in learning more about how the Indigo/WCF transport listener architecture works. This is what I found so far: The center of this is the TransportListenerFactory. Its inheritance tree can be found on MSDN but…