June 2006 - Posts

posted Thursday, June 22, 2006 11:15 AM by martin :: (Comments Off)

Thinking about WCF and ASP.NET Membership Providers

I’ve been speaking about WCF a bit recently, and in my presentation I mention that a WCF service can use an ASP.NET membership provider to authenticate username/password credentials included in a message. The other day, someone (thank you sir) pointed Read More
posted Monday, June 19, 2006 9:07 AM by martin :: (Comments Off)

Project Glidepath

I few people in smaller organizations have told me they’re concerned about their ability to use the new features available in Windows Vista and/or the .NET Framework v3.0. On the whole, I think this is down to the pace at which our technologies are evolving, Read More
posted Sunday, June 18, 2006 3:01 AM by martin :: 1 Comments

WinFXGuide

At the London leg of our MSDN roadshow last week, I met Francesco from WinFXGuide.  He told me about their community site, and it looks pretty good to me.   Read More
posted Monday, June 12, 2006 3:03 PM by martin :: (Comments Off)

netfx3.com

This is a new Microsoft community site, themed around the new technologies coming in version 3 of the .NET Framework. It looks like a useful combination of cross-posts aggregated from existing Microsoft blogs, and a home for new content. Read More
posted Saturday, June 10, 2006 1:11 PM by martin :: 1 Comments

.NET Framework v3.0, formerly known as WinFX

My biggest problem with "Windows CardSpace" is that WCS sounds a lot like WCF... Update: wow, this subject is causing a lot of traffic.  Most of what I've read so far seems to be in favour of the v3.0 badge, but a significant minority is not happy Read More
posted Saturday, June 03, 2006 6:40 PM by martin :: (Comments Off)

User Account Control in Windows Vista

I was at the DDD3 event today at Microsoft in Reading, UK, and I heard a few interesting conversations about this technology. UAC is (in my eyes) an attempt to address the problem of everyone running as local administrator, with the attendant security Read More
posted Thursday, June 01, 2006 9:06 AM by martin :: (Comments Off)

Posting from Word 2007

I’ve been using Beta 2 of the 2007 Microsoft Office System for a few days now, and initial impressions are favourable. I particularly like being able to post to my blog from Word. Read More