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…
Here are the slides for the BOF. Interoperability Fast Infoset WCF FIFI .NET Indigo FIFI-BOF-2535.pdf (424.64 KB)
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…
Huh? How are these two things related at all? Well … On last Friday I had a terrible Hard Drive crash, eliminating about 10 days worth of FIFI coding. That resulted – obviously – a lot of unhappy coding over…
WS-Addressing is as of today eleveated to a full W3C recommendation. Congratulations to Marc Hadley … (for making the web services world a little bloatier ;-)) Web Services WS-Adressing
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…
You might know that StAX (JSR 173) and the System.Xml.XmlReader/Writer classes are quite similar, at the very least in scope. A very interesting difference (that gave me a lot of grief in porting/implementing these APIs) is the way namespace attributes…