Matt Powell
Web Platform and Tools
Let the tools do it for you?
Tim and Erv seemed to have taken this quote from my last post to task: if you don't understand all...
Author: mattpo Date: 09/22/2004
WS-* Specifications: Are there too many and are they too complex?
Tim Bray and others have questioned the plethora of WS-* specifications. Tim says: I still think the...
Author: mattpo Date: 09/21/2004
VS .NET Beats WebSphere
eWeek reports: Microsoft Wins developer tool competition. -Matt
Author: mattpo Date: 09/21/2004
Resource
I agree with Rory. It is so dehumanizing to be referred to as a "resource". Here at Microsoft we...
Author: mattpo Date: 09/17/2004
WS-* Specifications Simply Explained
The Intro to WSA article that we published today is one of my favorite articles that we have...
Author: mattpo Date: 09/16/2004
New Specs: WS-Transfer and WS-Enumeration
WS-Transfer and WS-Enumeration were published today by Microsoft and our partners. WS-Transfer...
Author: mattpo Date: 09/16/2004
Keith Ballinger talks about WSE on TheServerSide.NET
Keith Ballinger talks to Ted Neward about WSE on TheServerSide.NET. -Matt
Author: mattpo Date: 09/14/2004
Mindreef releases SOAPScope 4.0
Simon noted that Mindreef released their next version of their SOAPScope tool for looking at SOAP...
Author: mattpo Date: 09/14/2004
WSE 2.0 UsernameTokens and Hashing Passwords
Hervey posts another great entry in his blog that digs into the whole confusing issue about whether...
Author: mattpo Date: 09/10/2004
One More Step Toward Transport Independence with Web Services
The initial SOAP spec was pretty tightly coupled with HTTP. Shortly thereafter folks realized that...
Author: mattpo Date: 09/08/2004
Don Box: the lost minutes
Did you see Don's earlier Channel 9 tour of the halls of Indigo? Did you get a feeling that there...
Author: mattpo Date: 09/07/2004
The Future of Longhorn and Indigo
In case you didn't see it, Microsoft announced that Longhorn would ship in 2006 and that Indigo...
Author: mattpo Date: 09/07/2004
Ballmer Wild about Web Services
How big are Web services? Ask Steve Ballmer: Ballmer singled out XML and Web services as the "big...
Author: mattpo Date: 09/02/2004
Tell Becky what you are doing with WSE
Becky, a Product Manager here at Microsoft on advanced Web services, wants to know what you are...
Author: mattpo Date: 09/01/2004
Next Workshop Scheduled on WS-Trust and WS-SecureConversation
We just posted the details on the next Web services protocol Workshop. This is an interop workshop...
Author: mattpo Date: 09/01/2004
AAAHHHHH!
My oldest daughter got her driver's permit yesterday...AAAHHH! Today is her first day of high...
Author: mattpo Date: 09/01/2004
WS-Eventing Update Published
Microsoft and others published an update to the WS-Eventing specification. The bigger news is that...
Author: mattpo Date: 08/31/2004
Awesome Training on Web Services and other Server Technologies
The pluralsight folks have put together what looks like an awesome week of training from some of the...
Author: mattpo Date: 08/27/2004
MTOM at W3C Candiate Recommendation
The XOP and MTOM specs are well on their way. These are the specs that fix the problem of SOAP with...
Author: mattpo Date: 08/26/2004
Don't mess with the term "SOA"
Richard Turner warns us about the danger of calling everything SOA. We ran into this same sort of...
Author: mattpo Date: 08/24/2004
WSE Trace Tool
Simon Guest, Mr. Web Service Interoperability, put together a tool to trace WSE messages using the...
Author: mattpo Date: 08/24/2004
Channel9 - The Halls of Indigo
What could be more interesting than a 36 minute walk through the halls of building 42 where Indigo...
Author: mattpo Date: 08/19/2004
Simon Guest: Top Ten Interop Tips
Okay...I'm through most of my email from vacation...starting to catch up on blog posts. Mr. Interop,...
Author: mattpo Date: 08/13/2004
WS-Addressing goes to W3C
I'm back from vacation and a lot of things have happened during my absence, for instance, SP1 for...
Author: mattpo Date: 08/11/2004
The Don, Doug and Ted Show
Check out The Server Side .NET's Ted Neward interview Don Box and Doug Purdy on their roles on the...
Author: mattpo Date: 07/23/2004
Clemens on .NET Rocks
Clemens Vasters from Newtelligence speaks on service-orientation on the latest .NET Rocks episode....
Author: mattpo Date: 07/21/2004
Speaking at Win-Dev in October
I'll be speaking at Win-Dev in Boston (Oct. 25 - 29th) on Reliability and Transactions with Web...
Author: mattpo Date: 07/19/2004
WSE 2.0 SP1 Plans
Hervey posts information on the changes in SP1 of WSE 2.0. WSE users will want to check it out....
Author: mattpo Date: 07/16/2004
J2EE vs .NET Web Service Performance
As a technical writer, performance is always a scary thing to write about. You can do it, but you...
Author: mattpo Date: 07/15/2004
Royalty-free! Royalty-free! Royalty-free!
I suppose it was due to the fact that in the early drafts of WS-Security, we made you sign a license...
Author: mattpo Date: 07/14/2004
The Approach Microsoft and our Partners are Using Toward Creating Web Services Specifications
Jorgen has just published an article that lays out the approach we are taking toward getting Web...
Author: mattpo Date: 07/14/2004
WSE 2.0 Webcast
There is a Microsoft Webcasts coming up on WSE 2.0 tomorrow that you might want to check out:...
Author: mattpo Date: 07/08/2004
Wired Hoax
Scott linked to this Wired article on the old chain email about Bill Gates sending money to anyone...
Author: mattpo Date: 07/07/2004
Free Visual Studio for Web Service Development
You might not have noticed but the recently announced Visual Studio 2005 Express Beta allows for...
Author: mattpo Date: 07/07/2004
Dave Mendlen Again
I should have known that these things always come in threes. Adding to my previous post of Channel 9...
Author: mattpo Date: 07/06/2004
Dave Mendlen talks Web Services
For your multimedia pleasure, on Channel 9, Dave Mendlen, Director of Web Service Marketing at...
Author: mattpo Date: 07/06/2004
TechEd Europe
I won't be there but there will be plenty of others who will have some great things to say about Web...
Author: mattpo Date: 06/28/2004
John and Benjamin are at it again
John Bristowe and Benjamin Mitchell, Microsoft Regional Directors from opposite sides of the British...
Author: mattpo Date: 06/23/2004
WSE 2.0 Documentation is Now Online
We finally got the WSE 2.0 documentation up in the online MSDN library. If you haven't noticed, this...
Author: mattpo Date: 06/21/2004
MSDN TV: WSE 2.0 Security
Instead of listening to the same ol' Microsoft heads talking about Web service technology, we...
Author: mattpo Date: 06/18/2004
Many Things of Note
I have a variety of links I wanted to point people at, so here they are: Updated the WSDC blogroll....
Author: mattpo Date: 06/15/2004
SOAP Toolkit Support Extended
In case you missed the news, Microsoft SOAP Toolkit support has been extended past the originally...
Author: mattpo Date: 06/09/2004
Test Drive VS .NET to build a Web Service
Kent just posted a Visual Studio .NET simulator to walk viewers through three common tasks including...
Author: mattpo Date: 06/07/2004
Encrypting only 1 parameter of a WebMethod with WSE
You don't have to encrypt the entire body of a message with WSE. You can encrypt just certain...
Author: mattpo Date: 05/28/2004
Encrypting one parameter on a WebMethod with WSE
One of the attendees here at TechEd asked me how to encrypt only one of the parameters on a...
Author: mattpo Date: 05/28/2004
There is only one program...and it is still being written
I'm currently sitting in Doug Purdy's Web services versioning talk here at TechEd. The fact that we...
Author: mattpo Date: 05/27/2004
WSE WSE WSE
There's a lot of excitement here at TechEd about the WSE release. I got to watch Keith Ballinger's...
Author: mattpo Date: 05/27/2004
Interop with Federated Browser Authentication
[Update: Adding the link - thanks Dumky] A great write-up of the WS-Federation Passive Requestor...
Author: mattpo Date: 05/25/2004