OK, conference season starts soon. I will be in Montreal from Friday through Tuesday. A lot of fantastic speakers will be at the DevTeach conference and I am very happy to meet some of them.
Anyway, I also have to do some work - I will be presenting some common solutions to Web services developments problems in the ASMX stack today and will also talk about the future of distributed applications (and Web services in particular) on the Windows platform. Here we go ...
Ouch! - Common XML Web Services Headaches (NET386) Monday, 15.00 - 16.15 When you are going beyond ASP.NET's [WebMethod] approach you will eventually face a lot of problems. In this talk we try to present solutions to the most common headaches like: include existing XML Schemas, access the raw SOAP message, dynamically invoking Web Services at runtime ... And improving Visual Studio .NET when it comes to Web services programming! See a lot of code and solutions and few slides.
Preview into the Future of Distributed Applications (NET285) Sunday, 15.00 - 16.15 "Indigo" is Microsoft's programming model and framework for building connected applications and Web services. "Indigo" brings together the best of .NET Remoting, MSMQ, ASMX and .NET Enterprise Services to form a unified model and runtime for building connected applications on the Windows platform. Learn about the architectural components of "Indigo" as well as the conceptual model shared by all "Indigo" applications.