Scott Hanselman

Great article on on MSDNMag by Yasser Shahoud on building your Web Services around Message Structures

SUMMARY: Web Services are all about exchanging data in the form of XML messages. If you were about to design a database schema, you probably wouldn't let your tool do it for you. You'd hand-tool it yourself to ensure maximum efficiency. In this article, the author maintains that designing a Web Service should be no different. You should know what kind of data will be returned by Web Service requests and use the structure of that data to design the most efficient message format. Here you'll learn how to make that determination and how to build your Web Service around the message structure.

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Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. He is a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author.

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Internet spammer Can't Take What He Dishes Out. Alan Ralsky is one of the biggest, if not biggest spammers in the world. He has recently purchased a $740,000 house with his proceeds from spamming. His street address was posted in this Slashdot thread along with this overhead picture, courtesy of Microsoft's TerraServer. Don't pay any attention to the push-pin. TerraServer gets close, but never spot-on. It is one of those houses though. :lol: :lol: :lol: "It's all the result of a well-organized campaign by the anti-spam community, and Ralsky doesn't find it funny. "They've signed me up for every advertising campaign and mailing list there is," he told me. "These people are out of their minds. They're harassing me." That they are. Gleefully. Boo hoo Mr. Ralsky. [Pocket PC Thoughts]

Hee hee!

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Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. He is a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author.

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FYI: My PowerPoints from Ready, Set, VS.NET are posted up at Microsoft's site.

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Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. He is a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author.

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Interesting bit of silly philosophy today...what IS the best practice in .NET when you are given things like useful financial functions (Rate(),  Pmt(), etc...) that have been pulled forward from VB6 and given the same function signatures in VB.NET?  Basically the whole Financial library of intrinsics from VB5 and VB6 is available in Microsoft.VisualBasic.Financial (class, not a namespace).  From a design standpoint, is it cool to just have a C# assembly reference over to Microsoft.VisualBasic.dll?  Is it overkill to provide a little "insurance" by first encapsulating the Financial Functions in a VB.NET Class Library, then referencing or inherititing from THAT in C#?  Can we count on Microsoft.VisualBasic.dll and Microsoft.VisualBasic.Compatibility, etc to be around a while? Hm...

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Here's a super cool use of WebServices...an Outlook 2000/XP AddIn that interfaces with the BabelFish Translation SOAP APIs...and it's free!

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Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. He is a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author.

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