It happened to Rick Strahl and is an interesting read…

Since I have found myself explaining more than once that a digital signature is NOT a jpeg of your signature, I decided to just include this slide in my Web Services Security for Dummies talk at ASPConnections.

That image was pretty easy to find on the web…so I guess it’s okay to use it. 😉

I went from looking at the WS-Security Spec to the XML Signature Spec and the XML Encryption Spec today. Interesting stuff!

Casey’s got gmail invites. He’s not giving them away. He started fantasizing about the repercussions. My neighbors heard me laughing (well probably they did) when I read this part after he imagines running out of invites and his mom doesn’t get one:

mom: you ingrate blah 9 months blah

Thanks to Jason Salas (and Glenn Munlawin at APress) I have in my hands Expert Service-Oriented Architecture in C# Using the Web services Enhancements 2.0 by Jeffrey Hasan.

So far I just opened it up randomly and read what was on that random page and learned something new already.

I will definitely be cruising through this book shortly.

Lately, each time I achieve an understanding of yet another previously daunting topic in .NET, I have thought it would be great to collect all of this in one place to share with all of the other poor souls who are equally fearful of the bigger .NET concepts that are so new to so many of us. Things like reflection, CAS, security, WSE, streaming, threading (although I am not there with threading yet…), etc. Then I start thinking chapters…book.. and then I just slap myself a few times and make that stupid life sucking you couldn’t pay me enough idea go away.

Delete, Delete, Delete.

That’s what I’m doing to my poor What’s new in the BCL in .NET 2.0 presentation as I prepare it for an ASP.NET focus for ASP.NET Connections.

System.IO.DriveInfo…..delete…not too interesting over the web

System.Console ….delete (sorry Kit, I know this is one of your faves!!!)

System.IO.SerialPort … delete.. (ditto, Kit)

And I think I’ll bring the System.Net changes right up to the top of the deck to really get their attention!

Hmmm…I think the whole Friend Assemblies part is going to have to go. It’s compelling, but I’ve found it not that exciting when I’ve given this talk in the past.

Devsource is having a trivia contest with a prize of this hot little number from Acer.

this is the official Ferrari Red – I think Acer licensed it. Now if only it they could make a Ferrari tablet … 🙂

Yes, let me get this out of the way. I have a FoxPro 2.6 application I still use to run a project for a client. In fact, I use the windows version to do the data entry and the DOS version to print out 300 pages of reports for them monthly. (All this STILL on Windows XP SP1 – thank you Raymond Chen & co.!)

However, I have a new computer. It is 2.8 ghz and has 2 GB of RAM. It’s the speed that is creating a problem, not the O/S.

I have found ONE documentation of this problem anywhere on the web and it was on www.experts-exchange.com so I thought I would also make note of it here. It wasn’t until I read the thread, that I realized the pattern.

FoxPro 2.6 still works, but after about 24 hours of uptime on the computer, it stops working with this error message when you try to start up FoxPro.

The Win16 SubSystem has insufficient resources to continue running. Click on OK, close your applications, and restart your machine.

I have mucked with file handles and all types of settings to no avail. Right now my solution is to reboot. But I will eventually juggle some computers around. Give Rich the one I just stopped using which is a little faster and newer and has USB ports and use his computer for doing this process. This is acceptable. It’s an old program. But I’m worried about the hundred or so people out there who use a foxpro real estate application I wrote and rely heavily on it. I have explained the problem pretty clearly on the support page for that product, but I think it will be a while before these people have to worry about this.

In the meantime, I need to test it on sp2, though I trust it will be fine.

for google: win 16 win16 fpw26 foxpro 2.6 foxprow

Update Jan 2006: I have loaded both FoxPro 2.6 Windows and FoxPro DOS on Windows Vista CTP 5270 and run some applications. I haven’t tested them throroughly (and not done enough testing to check on the problem that this post is about, but they run!)

Benjamin Mitchell points to a thoughtful article by Gregor Hohpe on keeping some perspective on the WS-Specs as well as leveraging all of the intelligence that has gone into creating them to at least consider as a design checklist. Benjamin also highlights Gregor’s point that web services are not always the answer to a problem that you think they will solve.

As I get deeper into trying to sort out WS Specs and WSE, all of this input is really helpful.