Yasser Shohoud
Yasser's personal space on the Web
What I've Been Up To
I've been away from blogging for a loong time so have some catching up to do. I spent most of last...
Date: 02/17/2009
Getting back into blogging
It's been over a year since I last blogged over on yassers.com. I'm trying to get back into it now...
Date: 11/07/2008
Blog moved
I've moved my web site and blog to yassers.com. The blog is at https://blog.yassers.com. Some of the...
Date: 09/13/2006
What Exactly Is BizTalk?
I now work as a Technology Architect at the Microsoft Technology Center in Austin which is part of...
Date: 07/25/2006
More on the WCF RSS Sample
Last week we put up a sample named WCF RSS Toolkit on wcf.netfx3.com and I posted a sample service...
Date: 06/21/2006
WCF RSS Sample
Mark is looking for some sample code for the recently released WCF RSS Toolkit. I've put the readme...
Date: 06/15/2006
WCF Custom Channel Ecosystem
Back in January, a few of us on the WCF team kicked off a side project dubbed "the channel ecosystem...
Date: 04/10/2006
It's here
I came home today to find a large box waiting for me; it's my new iMac G5! This is the 20" intel...
Date: 03/12/2006
Moving lots of data
Recently I've been getting lots of questions about moving large files (or lots of data) between a...
Date: 01/22/2006
Meet the Channel Model: ICommunicationObject
A Common a State Machine Objects that deal with communication, e.g. sockets, usually present a state...
Date: 01/08/2006
WCF Architecture Overview
This is a document I wrote a while ago and has been sitting around waiting to be published. Well, it...
Date: 12/29/2005
Looking for people who want to change the world
We have a few open positions on the Indigo (WCF) team for people who want to change the world. In...
Date: 11/29/2005
Meet the WCF Channel Model – Part 2
Most WCF developers won’t interact directly with channels or have to think about them much. The...
Date: 10/22/2005
Meet the WCF Channel Model - Part 1
For the past 5 months or so, I’ve been working on the WCF Core Communications team (with Kenny,...
Date: 10/12/2005
Emacs for 2007
Don Box, Chris Anderson, Anders Hejlsberg and Scott Guthrie did a 40 minute demo in Jim Allchin's...
Date: 09/13/2005
Indigo Versioning
I've been thinking about Indigo versioning a lot recently. Basically there are three axes: 1....
Date: 06/21/2005
It's fun being a test engineer on Indigo
Recently, I spent a few days writing test cases for the MetadataExchange endpoint feature in Indigo....
Date: 03/22/2005
ASMX documentation
I'm currently reviewing the docs for Whidbey version of ASMX (ASP.NET Web services). What are the...
Date: 01/26/2005
Disabling Comments
My blog has recently been subjected to "comment spam" so I'm disabling comments again. It's a shame...
Date: 12/31/2004
Let's all become cavemen
I just came across a statement made by a prominent industry figure about how WS-* is becoming so...
Date: 11/10/2004
Web services features in .NET 2.0 (VS Connections talk)
My VS Connections talk's slides and code are available here.
Date: 11/10/2004
Web services and large content in .NET 2.0
There are a couple of features in .NET 2.0 (Whidbey) that help solve the problems of dealing with...
Date: 11/10/2004
I'm speaking at VS Connections
I got asked today to give a talk at VS Connections in Vegas. My talk will cover the new Web services...
Date: 09/23/2004
My Bandit
A photo of my bike while riding out on the penninsula yesterday.
Date: 09/06/2004
Weather service back online
I've also finally gotten around to putting up my Weather service (for the 3rd time). It's live at...
Date: 08/29/2004
My book is back online
I admit it. I've been less than prompt in getting my book (Real World XML Web Services) back online...
Date: 08/29/2004
FAQ: VS Whidbey is not giving me
Becky pointed out Simon's comment on her blog. Unfortunately the new proxy generation features...
Date: 07/22/2004
Nullable and XxxSpecified
Just read this on Simon Fell's site. We've added support for xs:nillable=”true” by...
Date: 07/22/2004
Web services features in .NET Framework 2.0 Beta 1
This article provides a 20,000 foot view of the Web services features in the Beta 1 release .NET...
Date: 06/30/2004
TechEd 2004 Whidbey Talk
Matt Tavis and I presented a talk oulining some of the Whidbey features in Web services, XML...
Date: 06/03/2004
Meet at TechEd?
I'd love to meet with customers at TechEd in San Diego to discuss our technology (ASP.NET Web...
Date: 05/02/2004
Indigo Samples
It seems like most people are unaware of the Indigo samples that shipped with the Longhorn SDK and...
Date: 11/30/2003
How far should Whidbey go with BP conformance?
We plan to make services created with VS Whidbey BP 1.0 conformant by default. However, the...
Date: 11/24/2003
iTunes and mp3
I've been hearing a lot about iTunes recently so I decided to check it out. I have an mp3 player...
Date: 11/24/2003
Interesting lecture
I just viewed a recorded lecture by Donald Knuth named God and Computer Science. It's definitely...
Date: 11/23/2003
My site back up
I finally got LearnXmlws.com up and running again. It's now just the online home of my book and...
Date: 11/23/2003
4B0082 is here
In the past few weeks since PDC, I've been very happy with the tremendous positive response to...
Date: 11/22/2003
WSE, ASMX and the .NET Framework
Last week I gave talks at two design reviews on campus. I talked about what we're doing with ASMX...
Date: 06/22/2003
Chris Brumme's blog
I just saw Chris Brumme's blog. Wow! Judging by the timestamps on the entries, he's either got a...
Date: 04/15/2003
A new addition to the Microsoft family
Robert Scoble has officially joined Microsoft as a technical evangelist. It'll be fun having Robert...
Date: 04/15/2003
Scotg is a blogger
I just learned that Scot Gellock has been blogging since April 5th. Scot is the dev manager on the...
Date: 04/15/2003
WSDL Designers
Christian points me at 5 WSDL designers that he's used. Of these 5 I have 2 (XML Spy and Omniopera)...
Date: 04/15/2003
VM Ware vs Virtual PC
I've installed and used both VMWare and Virtual PC on my tablet. VPC has one key advantage: It lets...
Date: 04/13/2003
Coding to the tunes of Alchemy
I'm taking some time today to work on a stream-based Web service for posting blog entries while...
Date: 04/13/2003
What difference does it make II
I've gotten some responses to my question including a posting from Sam and some comments/email. So...
Date: 04/11/2003
WS-I test tools beta
WS-I has published a beta of its conformance test tools. Download them here and give them a try....
Date: 04/11/2003
My book on .NET DJ Reader's Choice
Following Ingo's footsteps, here is a link to my book on .NETDJ Readers' Choice. If you like the...
Date: 04/11/2003