I mentioned that I was looking for new opportunitie s but I have decided to concentrate my independent Microsoft .NET consulting on all things Connected Systems and Messaging. I see many shops around the country struggling with WCF and WF. In this area, I have been a part of the WCF and WF SDRs for 4 years now since the beginning and part of the large 2-year WCF and WF effort at Algorithmics. I am available, on a consulting basis , to help you with your WCF, WF and BizTalk needs. In addition, I believe

Welcome to the 11th article in the series. In this article, I will take a broad detour from the abstract into the concrete with WCF. The title of this article is "Introduction to WCF: Architecture and the "ABCs" of Indigo." BTW, I have been in the Indigo SDR program for over 4 years and the term Indigo has stuck in my mind, so I will use the terms interchangeably. Plus, as I think Don Box said in a presentation, It's spelled W-C-F and pronounced Indigo. The WCF is silent."

In this episode, I get to define SOA, instantly coming into conflict with just about everyone who has ever defined it :). Right. Onward. First and foremost, Service-Oriented Architecture is an architectural style, not a framework. It's a design model, it's a way of thinking . I like to say it's not something you can buy or run a wizard for. I would also say that it is a Design model with a very strong emphasis on encapsulating application logic within Services that interact via a common

I have been giving an SOA talk, in various forms for several years, where I concentrate on various themes. For the benefit of many who have not gone to such talks, as well as for others, I always wanted to start a written series based on these talks. Since, I can't sleep tonight, this is Part 1. In this series, I would like to discuss a lot of concepts that are not tied to any particular technology stack whatsoever . SOA requires a Paradigm Shift in thinking and I am very interested in getting

I did say we had a bigger announcement and we did. In the last post, I gave the "official" announcement. However, I have a personal and professional relationship with the product and I would like to start a series of posts on it now, as David, the Neuron Architect is doing . His post gives a detailed paragraph of major features, and indeed, there are a lot! 2.0 has over 60 new features over 1.0 and Neuron is a powerful product that enables various scenarios. In designing the product, we

Last time, I talked a bit about SAML and Federated Identity . It turns out this is a subset of a general area, an area commonly referred to as Identity Management . The issue is how to protect and manage credentials across a wide array of network applications that have different authentication methods and requirements. I talked about SSO last time, mostly around SSO in browsers and web applications. As Pablo reminded me , it's not just web browsers; SAML is trying to solve the problem of SSO

I am dealing with some tough SAML issues, with Michele's help, and I thought I would put in some review notes on SAML for other people to benefit as well. Reference for this material was the book: Securing Web Services with WS-Security.   Introduction In the past, there was no real need to share identities from one organization or company to another. This has changed quite a bit with SOA, Services and the Internet with increased collaboration across trust domains. The need for federation

  Meeting Reminder 27 March 2008 5:30 – 7:30 pm   Diamond Technologies, Inc   Sam Gentile   Advanced WCF: Asynchronous Messaging and Event-Driven Architectures   Sponsored by:  Diamond Technologies, Inc.   Directions     Many WCF developers start and end with the Request/Response Message Exchange Pattern.  In actuality, there is a wide variety of Message Exchange Patterns cataloged by Hohpe and Woolfe in books like “Enterprise Integration

For the NuCon events we have been running with Microsoft to launch the 2008 Launch Wave, we have been giving out these Neudesic/Microsoft shirts that, IMHO, are really cool - they have this cool timeline on the back on how we see we got to here and shows a lot of the things we focus on (i.e. We use Agile/Scrum methodologies exclusively to run our projects): Simula 67 '67 Pascal '70 Internet Goes Public '92 SQL Server 4.21 Shipped '92 Scrum Created '93 SOA Coined '96 MS Released