Last night I went to one of the most under-advertised session at PDC. At 9:00pm the ShowOff team showed 22 short films by developers and small companies about their “that’s cool!” projects. Highlights included: “Finalizer” – a WinCE powererd Battlebot…
There are a lot of things happening in the Indigo world, particularly in the interoperability area. Some notable pieces of information: The latest build include the WSFederationBinding, which enables the use of SAML tokens within WCF. Based on the Claims…
Didn’t you also find it somewhat remarkable that the “pillars” of “Longhorn” have been supiciously missing from the recent Beta and CTP releases, including the PDC release? What is Microsoft doing here – are they planning to release Avalon and…
Please check out this excellent article on te Windows Communication Foundation (formerly “Indigo”) by Clemens Vasters. He explains the basic ABC (Address, Binding, Contract) in Indigo and shows how it maps to WSDL service, binding, and portType. It is a…
Today’s notes on the keynote: Eric Rudder – Tools & Servers Final RC for VS by the end of this week, final release by November Announcement: Windows Workflow Foundation Announcement: Microsoft Expression Acrylic (Graphic), Sparkle (Interactive), Quartz (Web) Announcement: Visual…
When installing the PDC CTP version of Windows (as well as the Beta 1) on VMWare, you will likely run into an issue with the disk. This happens if you create a new VMWare disk for the virtual machine. There…
Here are some notes/snippets of this morning’s keynote marathon: Bill Gates They strive for equivalence of (on-premise) servers and (off-premise, 3rd party hosted) services. Customers demanded to have WCF (“Indigo”) and WPF (“Avalon”) available on XP and 2003. Office…
This was definitively fun. Although the turnout was not very high (hey, what do you expect at 9:30 on the day *before* the actual conference with 3 days of notice to the audience), we had a few really good an…
I just realized that all my old blog entries are missing and thus, some people might not know me: My name is Gerald Beuchelt, and I work in Burlington, MA, as a Web Services Architect for Sun Microsystems, Inc. My…
Well – I always *love* to arrive in LA (not!): The plane was late, we deplaned on the taxiway, the baggage took 1 hour and I got lost (again) in LA’s freeway jungle. Just to top it off, LA is…