Connected System – Alfred Myers

WCF na Prática

No próximo sábado estarei no 3o União.NET para ministrar a palestra "WCF na Prática".

Apesar do nome da palestra, a idéia é dar uma direção para a escolha das diversas opções suportadas pelo WCF como:

Quando usar self-hosting vs. IIS ou WAS
Quando usar os bindings NamedPipes vs. TCP/IP vs. WS HTTP
Quando usar segurança no transporte vs. quando usar segurança na mensagem
Quando configurar no código vs. em arquivos de configuração

e por aí vai…

Se você já está familiarizado com a nova terminologia das certificações da Microsoft, vai ser uma palestra mais para MCPD (decisões técnicas) do que para MCTS (detalhes técnicos).

Inscreva-se em http://www.dotnetraptors.com.br/eventos/uniaodotnet3/default.aspx

WCF Security Guide – Beta Release

Com todas as opções oferecidas pelo WCF, as difícil saber se estamos implementando um serviço da melhor forma.

Saiu esta semana a versão beta do livro Improving Web Services Security – Scenarios and Implementation Guidance for WCF

Versão em PDF disponível no link. Parece promissor.

WPF, WCF, WF beta exams extended!

Promo codes and more information at http://blogs.msdn.com/gerryo/archive/2008/01/14/take-a-net-beta-exam-today.aspx

SME for 70-503

A couple of weeks ago I was in Redmond helping to shape what will be the WCF certification exam.

It was very nice to work with those people.

Jennifer, Larissa, Rodrigo Freire, James Kovacs, Anto Nellissery, Ted Malone, Bob and Alfred Myers

Falando sobre Windows Workflow Foundation SMEs

During my trip to Redmond I recorded a couple of videos.

In this first one, I interview the other four SMEs (Subject Matter Experts) that helped developing the Windows Workflow Foundation exam (70-504).

Windows Workflow Foundation SMEs

http://images.soapbox.msn.com/flash/soapbox1_1.swf
Video: Windows Workflow Foundation SMEs

Have fun!

Accessing a Web Service from within a browser’s client-side script

Have you already accessed a Web Service through the browser?
I’m not talking about that test page shown when you open the WSDL file in Internet Explorer.
I’m talking about accessing a Web Service through client-side script.
Imagine that you have a Web Forms application whose server does a Web Service operation on another server and passes the result back to the client. It serves only as a gateway between the client and the Web Service.
Using WebService Behavior there is no need to do this triangulation because the browser can access the Web Service directly using JavaScript or VBScript on Internet Explorer 5.0 or later.
The feature is exposed through an HTML component (*.htc) but unfortunately it isn’t supported (anymore?) by Microsoft.

Brazilian zip code Web Service

From Carlos Loth’s blog: Brazilian’s postal service publishes a web service to allow queries from Microsoft Office 2003.
It works like magic on Word.
I tried a quick and dirty approach to make it work from within a .NET application without success, but soon someone will figure out how to do it.
In my opinion, the postal service should open the zip code database since it’s a government owned company. For that reason it should publish the database as a web service instead of charging us for a CD-ROM subscription.