All About Interop
Connecting .NET to just about anything else
MTS06: Microsoft Technology Summit
As we speak I am sitting in the Microsoft Technology Summit, an invitation-only event in Redmond....
Author: cheeso Date: 04/11/2006
VS2005 Images
I did not know this, but VS2005 ships a library of re-usable and re-distributable images....
Author: cheeso Date: 04/10/2006
.NET System.IO.Compression and zip files
DotNetZip Library .NET 2.0 does Compression [Update 30 October 2007]: I moved this library to a...
Author: cheeso Date: 04/05/2006
ASP.NET Membership Providers
ASP.NET 2.0 includes membership services, which is a built-in mechanism for validating and storing...
Author: cheeso Date: 04/05/2006
Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 and Linux
Virtual Server 2005 and Linux Virtual Server 2005 R2 is now a free download Virtual Server 2005...
Author: cheeso Date: 04/03/2006
Sharing Session state between JSP and ASP.NET
Mauro recently posted an entry about how to share session state between an ASP (legacy) and an...
Author: cheeso Date: 03/20/2006
resource on .NET and Lotus Domino
Found this while spelunking today. Here's a guy who blogs about .NET for Domino Devs. Lots of code...
Author: cheeso Date: 03/15/2006
.NET integration with WebSphere Queues
.NET integration with WebSphere Queues - An Update Part of an ongoing series on JMS and .NET interop...
Author: cheeso Date: 03/09/2006
LU2 Connectivity with Host Integration Server
LU2 Connectivity with Host Integration Server LU-what? For all you youngsters out there, maybe you...
Author: cheeso Date: 03/08/2006
First Tango in Redmond?
First Tango in Redmond? Sun has given their JWSDP+WCF interop effort an official project name - they...
Author: cheeso Date: 03/07/2006
WCF Community
WCF community Microsoft launched a new community website for Windows Communication Foundation. Check...
Author: cheeso Date: 03/07/2006
IBM Message Service Client for .NET
IBM Message Service Client for .NET Part of an ongoing series of posts on JMS-to-.NET interop Philip...
Author: cheeso Date: 03/06/2006
Extending MSBuild
Extending MSBuild If you're like me, you try to stay current on technologies. Not for the sake of...
Author: cheeso Date: 02/24/2006
Re-use of existing Java code (Sudoku engine)
Re-use of existing Java code (Sudoku engine) This isn't so much about systems interop, as it is...
Author: cheeso Date: 02/15/2006
With .NET, all the choices are provided by Microsoft
With .NET, all the choices are provided by Microsoft Excuse the headline. I got a comment in a...
Author: cheeso Date: 02/10/2006
Oracle, System.Transactions, and ASP.NET 2.0 membership
This paper, covering how to migrate an ASP.NET 1.1 app to 2.0, taking advantage of new 2.0 features...
Author: cheeso Date: 02/10/2006
Gosling is still peddling this junk?
“[Java] is like the marketplace where you go and take your pick of technologies and .NET is a...
Author: cheeso Date: 02/08/2006
IBM Rational Functional Tester and VS2005
You may have missed this when IBM posted the story last year. IBM Rational Functional Tester, which...
Author: cheeso Date: 02/08/2006
Extending Visual Studio, and open source
I mentioned open-source and Visual Studio in a previous post. Today I would like to make it clear:...
Author: cheeso Date: 01/27/2006
IKVM.NET and interop
I just heard a story about a shop that used IKVM to good effect. The existing system has server-side...
Author: cheeso Date: 01/26/2006
JNBridge: you've been Blogged!
My pal Wayne Citrin at JNBridge has started an interop blog. Looks promising! There's an interesting...
Author: cheeso Date: 01/25/2006
TechEd Europe changes
TechEd Europe has been moved and reformatted. Instead of having a single event addressing both...
Author: cheeso Date: 01/25/2006
Defining a DB2 as a linked server in SQL Server 2005
This example shows how to add a remote DB2 as a linked server, using the MS OLEDB provider for DB2...
Author: cheeso Date: 01/20/2006
SAML on .NET
Do you use web services? If you have concerns about interoperability and security, then you probably...
Author: cheeso Date: 01/20/2006
OLEDB provider for DB2
You got DB2? Got SQL? Now you can connect them together, better. Microsoft is making the OLEDB...
Author: cheeso Date: 01/19/2006
MS JDBC for SQL 2005 released
In the spirit of sharing the love, Microsoft has announced the availability of the SQL Server 2005...
Author: cheeso Date: 01/18/2006
.NET can connect to WebSphere's built-in JMS
Phil Willoughby of IBM dropped me a line. Phil apparently works on the XMS stuff, I'm guessing out...
Author: cheeso Date: 01/16/2006
Prettification of XML - .NET 2.0 partial classes
Prettification of XML - .NET 2.0 partial classes I wrote about prettification of XML in Web Services...
Author: cheeso Date: 01/06/2006
Prettification of XML Serialization within Web Services
Prettification of XML Serialization within Web Services This came up yesterday on an internal...
Author: cheeso Date: 01/06/2006
CIO Mag article: the End of the Vendor Era
Scott Bertinato of CIO Magazine had an article in the December 11th issue entitled, ".Net, Web...
Author: cheeso Date: 12/23/2005
How LINQ compares to EJB and others
This isn't directly interop-related, but it is interesting enough to warrant mentioning. A new paper...
Author: cheeso Date: 12/22/2005
update to System.Transactions article
I have just updated the article on System.Transactions, originally penned by Juval Lowy and...
Author: cheeso Date: 12/21/2005
RSS icon - Does this count as interop?
The Microsoft RSS team announced that they've come to an agreement with Mozilla to use the same icon...
Author: cheeso Date: 12/16/2005
Shutdown of UDDI Public Registry
Microsoft, along with IBM and SAP, announced they will close down their respective nodes in the...
Author: cheeso Date: 12/16/2005
System.Transactions and Timeout
This came up a couple of times recently, so I am posting it more broadly. Courtesy of Mike Clark and...
Author: cheeso Date: 12/16/2005
Open Source and Visual Studio
Subversion or CVS with VS.NET? Microsoft's forthcoming Visual Studio Team System will include source...
Author: cheeso Date: 12/07/2005
Interop and DateTime formatting
Interop and Date or Time values While many people have moved beyond the fundamentals and are working...
Author: cheeso Date: 12/06/2005
Interop Story featuring JNBridge
This just came across, a case study from Microsoft on interop. KLA-Tencor. Not much technical detail...
Author: cheeso Date: 12/05/2005
PCF with IBM's MQ Classes for .NET
PCF with IBM's MQ Classes for .NET For about 2 years IBM has been providing a supported class...
Author: cheeso Date: 12/02/2005
Comparing .NET 2.0 to 1.1: Transactional Performance with MQSeries
Comparing Transactional Performance with MQSeries: System.Transactions vs System.EnterpriseServices...
Author: cheeso Date: 12/01/2005
JMS and RFH2 messages from .NET
My previous entry related to XMS, which is IBM's library for connecting .NET apps (and C++ apps) to...
Author: cheeso Date: 11/04/2005
XMS whitepaper from IBM
part of an ongoing series of posts on JMS and .NET interop. I just saw this while looking around for...
Author: cheeso Date: 11/03/2005
Dogs and Cats living together? (JBoss and MS)
Dogs and Cats living together? (JBoss and MS) This news made the rounds - Microsoft and JBoss...
Author: cheeso Date: 09/29/2005
Oracle: .NET Stored Procedures, etc
.NET Stored Procedures for Oracle10gR2, etc. Here's a presentation from OracleWorld by Christian...
Author: cheeso Date: 09/28/2005
IBM and JMS-to-.NET interop
IBM's .NET Managed client for JMS Today I received a comment on a prior entry of this blog. It is...
Author: cheeso Date: 08/03/2005
Analyzing non-Microsoft LDAP Stores
Analyzing non-Microsoft LDAP stores AD/AM is is "Active Directory Application Mode". It is a...
Author: cheeso Date: 08/03/2005
ASP.NET 2.0 services and non-Microsoft databases
ASP.NET 2.0 Providers ASP.NET 2.0, previously known as the "Whidbey" version of ASP.NET, introduces...
Author: cheeso Date: 08/02/2005
Interop at Burton Catalyst
Burton Catalyst I was at the Burton Group's Catalyst conference, in San Diego on Wednesday. Very...
Author: cheeso Date: 07/15/2005