All About Interop
Connecting .NET to just about anything else
Fact Check – IBM’s Steve Mills claims on MS and SOA
We saw an article on CNET that included quotes from Steve Mills of IBM directly related to Interop,...
Author: cheeso Date: 08/09/2007
StockTrader - now with source code
Last month I wrote about the .NET StockTrader app, an app that shows Interop between .NET/WCF...
Author: cheeso Date: 07/27/2007
Oracle developer tools for .NET, including ASP.NET Providers
I missed this. In June, Oracle delivered a new beta of its .NET Developer tools. Some highlights:...
Author: cheeso Date: 07/26/2007
The SOAP-over-JMS spec and interop
In a previous post, I wrote about a WCF Channel for MQ that IBM is building. Some customers had...
Author: cheeso Date: 07/24/2007
IBM WebSphere Registry/Repository and Interop with .NET, part 2
In a prior post, I said that there was no good interop story between .NET and the IBM WebSphere...
Author: cheeso Date: 07/23/2007
John Udell podcast on BizTalk Services
Channel9 has a podcast by John Udell on BizTalk Services. He interviews John Shewchuk on the...
Author: cheeso Date: 07/20/2007
Interop between ASMX and WCF Services
My esteemed colleague, Kevin, is working on a project where the customer has a bunch of ASP.NET...
Author: cheeso Date: 07/19/2007
JNBridge JMS Adapter Beta
I see JNBridge has a public beta now for their JMS Adapters for .NET. I haven't tried this out, but...
Author: cheeso Date: 07/16/2007
Custom WCF Channel for IBM MQ
IBM have shipped an early version of a Custom WCF Channel for MQ. The dev team in Hursley contacted...
Author: cheeso Date: 07/16/2007
Posting Photos from Word 2007
Woot! This is a test of the Word Blog posting trick, using Fiddler. Fiddler, using a little custom...
Author: cheeso Date: 07/13/2007
XPS being picked up by ECMA for standardization
From a ComputerWorld Article:...
Author: cheeso Date: 07/02/2007
Comparing SCA to Microsoft platform technologies
I posted about SCA previously. My take on it is, SCA isn't really about interop. But many people...
Author: cheeso Date: 06/28/2007
What about this SCA thing?
Ever heard of SCA? Service Component Architecture? (Leave it to the English-speaking people to glom...
Author: cheeso Date: 06/27/2007
InfoCard Relying Party for Java, PHP, etc
I missed this when it came out last month at the Interop event in Las Vegas. Bob Muglia announced...
Author: cheeso Date: 06/25/2007
.NET StockTrader shows Interop between WCF and WebSphere
Customers looking to build distributed applications according to the principles of Service Oriented...
Author: cheeso Date: 06/18/2007
Adobe Coldfusion 8 - call .NET from CFML
A couple weeks back, Adobe posted their ColdFusion 8 public beta. One of the big new features is, as...
Author: cheeso Date: 06/11/2007
Page Flow Designer for ASP.NET
For designing and controlling the page flow through an application, Java-based platforms can take...
Author: cheeso Date: 06/07/2007
Sudoku Toy redux - using C# DancingLinks Engine
A while back I posted a toy app that generates (and optionally solves) a Sudoku puzzle. It was under...
Author: cheeso Date: 06/07/2007
using Java to manipulate Word 2007 docx files
In this article, Ted Neward has a look at the docx format introduced with Word 2007, and...
Author: cheeso Date: 06/06/2007
LINQ and interop with other (non-Microsoft) databases
This topic came up on an internal mailing list at Microsoft. The question is, will LINQ be usable...
Author: cheeso Date: 05/22/2007
Project Astoria, S+S, and Interop
With the unveiling of Project Astoria, we're seeing more and more "services in the sky" from...
Author: cheeso Date: 05/16/2007
Simple Object Apology Protocol? Are we, maybe, moving an itsy bitsy bit too fast here?
I just read David Ing's post on Simple Object Apology Protocol. He's got some interesting ideas...
Author: cheeso Date: 05/15/2007
Improving WCF Interoperability
WCF supports WS-* protocols, so Microsoft claims it is fully interoperable. Alas, that is not always...
Author: cheeso Date: 05/10/2007
IBM connects .NET to Informix Databases
IBM Software has announced an update to the .NET support for their Informix database. This update...
Author: cheeso Date: 05/07/2007
The SOA Road Less Traveled
This caught my eye, an article in Tech Target on Microsoft's approach to SOA, entitled "Microsoft:...
Author: cheeso Date: 04/26/2007
"BizTalk Services" ISB debuts
This just in.... Microsoft has just released a Community Technology Preview (CTP) of BizTalk...
Author: cheeso Date: 04/24/2007
DanielI on Interoperability by Design
Daniel has some good commentary on Microsoft's broad interop efforts and strategy. Dino says check...
Author: cheeso Date: 04/18/2007
More .Net Zip Library/Utility updates
[Update: this code has been moved to a codeplex project: https://www.codeplex.com/DotNetZip . Go...
Author: cheeso Date: 04/13/2007
IBM supports .NET development with Rational Toolset
This announcement came by in February - IBM is now offering something called the Rational Modeling...
Author: cheeso Date: 04/11/2007
Using Java to program openXML documents
I've blogged about this before. Now I See there is a sourceforge project supporting the use of Java...
Author: cheeso Date: 03/23/2007
ASP.NET AJAX works on Linux
https://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3667066 Can it be possible - Using Microsoft...
Author: cheeso Date: 03/22/2007
Hmmm.....
Symantec's 11th Internet Security Threat Report has found that when it comes to widely-used...
Author: cheeso Date: 03/22/2007
Sharepoint 2007 Business Data Catalog enables Interop with LOB systems
I just listened to an on-demand webcast on the Sharepoint Business Data Catalog - aka BDC. The...
Author: cheeso Date: 03/20/2007
One-page Java-to-.NET Interop cheat sheet
Download it today....
Author: cheeso Date: 03/14/2007
Eclipse and Interoperability with .NET
From the Much-Ado-About-Nothing department, Mike Milinkovich, the Executive Director of the Eclipse...
Author: cheeso Date: 03/12/2007
Reporting Bugs on .NET 3.0
If you are developing with Visual Studio, or using the .NET Framework with some other dev tool...
Author: cheeso Date: 03/06/2007
MS JDBC v1.1 is available
In cased you missed this, in February Microsoft released v1.1 of the MS JDBC Driver for SQL 2005....
Author: cheeso Date: 03/05/2007
Wanna learn .NET 3.0? Check out DotNet-U - hands on labs
Includes presentations and hands-on labs for .NET 3.0, including WCF, WPF, WF, and CardSpace....
Author: cheeso Date: 02/28/2007
.Net Zip Library/Utility updates and fixes
This is an update to my zip library and utility. You can read previous entries on this here. [Update...
Author: cheeso Date: 02/22/2007
IBM WebSphere Registry/Repository and Interop with .NET
What are the interop options for connecting .NET applications to IBM's registry product, the IBM...
Author: cheeso Date: 02/22/2007
Open XML Workshop in Redmond, March 13-15
Want to learn about Open XML from the source? There's an opportunity coming up March 13-15 on the...
Author: cheeso Date: 02/16/2007
Does VB.NET have a Yield Return, as with C#?
Someone asked me about this and I wasn't sure. So I looked around and didn't see a definitive...
Author: cheeso Date: 02/16/2007
IBM's new MQ Blog includes some good .NET stuff
The MQ Engineers at IBM’s Hursley Lab (near Winchester, England) now have a blog. (By the way, the...
Author: cheeso Date: 02/16/2007
.NET Logic triggered by IBM MQ Messages
I did not know about this. With WebSphere MQ v6, IBM introduced something called the ".NET Monitor"...
Author: cheeso Date: 02/16/2007
PHP on Vista with IIS7
I upgraded my work machine, back in October. My old standby IBM Thinkpad T30, after years of loyal...
Author: cheeso Date: 02/06/2007
System.Diagnostics.PerformanceCounter and % Processor Time on multi-core or multi-cpu
While trying to build a task-manager type tool, I noticed that the idle task on my machine sometime...
Author: cheeso Date: 02/02/2007
BEA AquaLogic User Interface (ALUI) - write portlets in .NET
Hmm, what's ths?!?! BEA has introduced a new line of stuff, under the name Aqualogic Interface, or...
Author: cheeso Date: 01/30/2007
.NET and interop with Green Screens?
Here's a story of an unlikely marriage of the .NET Framework and green screen terminals. CO-OP...
Author: cheeso Date: 01/17/2007