WS-MTOMPolicy published

Let’s welcome MTOM Serialization Policy Assertion, or WS-MTOMPolicy for friends and close relatives 🙂 As we know, WS-Policy provides a generic framework of tremendous expressive power. It is sometimes very useful for very specific domains to provide prescriptive guidance about how certain common features can be expressed in form of assertions. WS-SecurityPolicy and WS-RMPolicy…

The Medley

Almost one year ago the web space that was hosting all my blog images (since 2003) somehow lost all of them, so for about one year my past musings were nicely decorated by red “x” all over the place. This evening I finally took the time to go through old posts and see if I could…

Announcing the Windows Communication Foundation Live Service Trace Viewer

  by Craig McMurtry and Vittorio Bertocci   Announcing the … Windows Communication Foundation Live Service Trace Viewer  Beta I   ·         Purpose ·         Design ·         Configuration ·         Use   Purpose:   Figure 1: The Live Service Trace Viewer     The Service Trace Viewer provided with the .NET 3.0 SDK allows the…

Cardspace: some changes with the RC1 wave

Hello there! I’m totally drowning in stuff to do these days, but this post is quick to write and can potentially save you a lot of hassle 🙂 In RC1 (.NET framework 3.0, IE7.0 and/or Vista: for once, we have all nicely aligned) we discontinued the namespace “http://schemas.microsoft.com/ws/2005/05/identity“, substituted by “http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/05/identity“. That holds both…

CardSpace & Workflow Foundation: creating managed cards as a workflow activity

CardSpace & Workflow Foundation: creating managed cards as a workflow activity

Recently I posted mainly about CardSpace, but my mission is actually about all our application server technologies! Workflow Foundation is the perfect tool for describing & driving processes: and what is the generation of a managed card, if not a step in account provisioning? So I wrote a barebone sample activity, which wraps Garrett’s…