Architecture Series on MSDN

The Architecture Series - An interesting set of talks posted to MSDN on architecture in the Longhorn wave.  Would highly recommend Pat Helland's talk.  If you've never seen him speak, it is worth your time.  He does a great job of talking about how to implement SOA today (reliable messaging, stateful behavior, etc.) and what's coming down the pike.  And, he's the only presenter I know who can get through 90 slides in 90 minutes, well, other than Damien Conway, I suppose.  (Anyone ever seen Damien?  Amazing Perl guru.)

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• Anonymous
  March 25, 2004
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• Anonymous
  March 26, 2004

1. Indeed it does. The entire tool has been re-written. Much was learned from v1 of wsdl.exe that is improved upon.
   
   2) But of course! xsdgen.exe!
   
   3) Negative. The only place to get these tools is in the Longhorn SDK. Also note that these tools generated proxies the use the Indigo message bus. They won't generate proxies that use the .NET v1.1 stack or v1.2 stack for that matter (aka Whidbey). They are solely for Indigo.

• Anonymous
  March 28, 2004
  Hi,
  
  Thanks for the reply.
  
  Any chance you could give more details on issues fixed?
  
  For instance, I find that nested xsd:choice elements are incorrectly handled, usually as one big choice in the generated code. Any improvements there?
  
  Also, it would be nice if xsd:group elements generated classes, but serialized correctly as embedded nodes in the containing node.
  
  Thanks,
  Martin
• Anonymous
  March 29, 2004
  Actually, way back when, I wrote a sample of using UDDI and RSS. In that, I bound RSS to a WinForms DataGrid:
  
  http://www.gotdotnet.com/Community/UserSamples/Details.aspx?SampleGuid=21bf4fd4-606b-4843-8a2e-9fb881b44bea
• Anonymous
  March 30, 2004
  Martin - The big change to wsdlgen.exe is that it will use the new XMLFormatter under the covers for the purposes of serializing/deserializing clr and schema. XMLFormatter is a vastly improved way to do serialization. I'd check out Doug Purdy's PDC presentation on the details of XMLFormatter and serialization enhancements in general:
  
  http://microsoft.sitestream.com/PDC2003/WSV/WSV303_files/Botto_files/WSV303_Purdy.ppt
  
  His blog is worth following as well:
  
  http://www.douglasp.com/SyndicationService.asmx/GetRss
  
  In addition, check out the new XML dev center on MSDN, which goes over some of the new XML features in Whidbey:
  
  http://msdn.microsoft.com/xml
  
  Hope that helps...