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December CTP of Visual Studio 2005 Team System is out at MSDN Subscriptions. I am now downloading it and it will take some time :). I will give you an update when I have a chance to play with it.

# posted by Martin Kulov @ 8:54 AM |

LOL :))))))))))

A Bulgarian software company recently posted a job offer for position "Thread Analysis Engineer". A brief look at the products they develop and you will see that what they meant was "Threat Analysis Engineer" instead. This is absolutely ridiculous.
Few weeks ago another company was looking to hire developer experienced in Indigo and XAML. What the $#@$ is going on with you people? Go on and read some news right away. Real news!

# posted by Martin Kulov @ 9:57 PM |

Today I just started to use an email box that has been inactive for about two years. I mean it was disabled and no mail was delivered to it. I setup my Outlook and downloaded all email received for about two days. This is when my box was enabled again. At my surprise in total 6 emails I had two that were a subscription to some newsletters I have made before. It seems that these newsletters never made an effort to check if their emails get delivered at all. What was more frustrating is that I started to receive spam in the very same day. What a grip. Similar to newsletter administrators, spammers never make an effort to check if the collected email is still valid and if the message is sent at all. But this time they do it for a reason.

# posted by Martin Kulov @ 11:36 PM |

This is the first time I see a message like this. The strangest thing is that the browser actually does nothing at the very moment.



# posted by Martin Kulov @ 11:26 AM |

WSE 2.0 SP2 went out on 3 December. You can download it here. The WSE 2.0 SP2 runtime is available here. Also Hands-On-Lab Security and Messaging are also updated and include examples in VB.NET. Hands-On-Lab are the first thing you should read before starting to implement anything with WSE. You can find them here. MSDN Library has a new page for WSE - Getting Started.
From the Readme file:

"A new compatibility mode attribute is introduced to select the wire format on the sending side. The mode attribute tells WSE runtime to generate a message compatible to a particular release of WSE. By default, the compatibility mode is set to WSE2RTM. It can be WSE2RTM, WSE2SP1 WSE2SP2 and so on. On the receiving end, a particular version of WSE runtime is able to accept all types of wire format in all its previous releases. In a request-response message exchange, a server generates a response message which is compatible with the request message. The server, by default, still uses the compatibility section to generate its response if it cannot determine the compatibility mode based on the request message."

This is set with Compatibility node in web.config file. For example:

<microsoft.web.services2>
    <compatibility mode="WSE2SP2">
</microsoft.web.services2>

"A new implementation of the Kerberos token based on SSPI interfaces is included in this release. The new token is named KerberosToken2. Please see the reference conceptual documentation for more details on KerberosToken2 and differences between KerberosToken2 and KerberosToken."

As far as I know with the new KerberosToken2 you will not need administrative privilege to authenticate the user with Kerberos token. I have not played with it though.

"For security reasons, it is strongly recommended to encrypt Username tokens, especially when they contain password information. The SecurityTokenServiceClient class now automatically encrypts any UsernameToken security tokens included in outgoing SOAP requests. Similarly, the SecurityTokenService class automatically encrypts any UsernameToken security tokens included in outgoing SOAP responses."

An awaited one! Now you can create secure communication channel with the public key of the server only.

"WSE setting tool would always prompt users for confirmation when the Cancel button was clicked. Now it is fixed so that the tool will prompt user only when some changes are made by users."

Pretty dull user interface problem :)

# posted by Martin Kulov @ 2:14 AM |

New beta is available from MSDN Subscriptions. It is called "Community Technology Preview". Check out "SQL Server 2005 CTP - December 2004 - Developer Edition (English)". Enjoy :)))

# posted by Martin Kulov @ 4:37 AM |