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• Top Development Tools

  Posted: 18 Dec 2008 at 10:30 by admin

  A personal selection since its that time of year Best .NET IDE- Visual Studio 2008 In my opinion Visual Studio 2008 is heaps better than VS 2005. Especially once you start installing some of the new patches that are being release, like jQuery Intellisense. Best Java IDE - NetBeans 6.1 Long, long ago I used to use Eclipse. Then [...]

• Using jQuery with a .NET Scripting Service

  Posted: 17 Dec 2008 at 11:36

  Being relatively new to jQuery I was wondering how easy it would be to consume a .NET Scripting Service in my JavaScript. Turns out it was very easy indeed. Here are the basics. For the jQuery call your basic format is: function callService(json) { [...]

• .NET Development & the IBM WebSphere Portal Server

  Posted: 10 Sep 2008 at 11:50

  Dr Dobbs Journal have recently published an article by me entitled ‘.NET Development & the IBM WebSphere Portal Server‘. Dated 04 September 2008 and available in the September 2008 print issue this article is, in fact, something I wrote 18 months ago. It is technically correct, and i

• .NET Development & the IBM WebSphere Portal Server

  Posted: 10 Sep 2008 at 10:50 by admin

  Dr Dobbs Journal have recently published an article by me entitled ‘.NET Development & the IBM WebSphere Portal Server‘. Dated 04 September 2008 and available in the September 2008 print issue this article is, in fact, something I wrote 18 months ago. It is technically correct, and if you’re still using Visual Studio 2003 and [...]

• AJAXControlToolkit CascadingDropDown

  Posted: 24 Jul 2008 at 13:18

  I thought I’d mention the CascadingDropDown control in the AJAXControlToolkit. I’m using the ASP.NET 3.5 Framework version and started to get ubiquitous errors of the form: Method Error 12030 Method Error 12031 Method Error 500 There are lots of sites with lots of solutio

• Deploying Silverlight to a Web Server

  Posted: 24 Jul 2008 at 13:08

  A big thank you to Tim Sneath who saved me hours. When you deploy your first Silverlight application to a Web Server and browse to your new app you will find that your web page will display no Silverlight content whatsoever, even though the page source is identical to what you produce in your develo

• AJAXControlToolkit CascadingDropDown

  Posted: 24 Jul 2008 at 12:18 by admin

  I thought I’d mention the CascadingDropDown control in the AJAXControlToolkit. I’m using the ASP.NET 3.5 Framework version and started to get ubiquitous errors of the form: Method Error 12030 Method Error 12031 Method Error 500 There are lots of sites with lots of solutions. Unfortunately many are out of date. So here is the solution for the version 3.5.20229 [...]

• Deploying Silverlight to a Web Server

  Posted: 24 Jul 2008 at 12:08 by admin

  A big thank you to Tim Sneath who saved me hours. When you deploy your first Silverlight application to a Web Server and browse to your new app you will find that your web page will display no Silverlight content whatsoever, even though the page source is identical to what you produce in your development [...]

• More Interop Success

  Posted: 07 Jul 2008 at 15:50

  I was pleased to receive the following link from Jose Ferreiro who has been having some success with Axis 1.4, WSE 3.0, dotnet 2.0 and WSS4J 1.5.3 http://magnot.blogspot.com/2008/04/secure-web-services-interoperability.html His set-up is Axis 1.4 Java Web Service with a dotNet 2.0 client. Its nice t

• Apache CXF Interop With Secure .NET Web Services

  Posted: 20 May 2008 at 20:41

  Using my original tutorial on getting a Rampart client to interop with WS-Security and a .NET Web Service, David Turanski has managed to get an Apache CXF client working too. He has very kindly agreed to let me share the code on my site. You can download it from here.

• Creating X509 Certificates for WS-Security in Interop Scenarios

  Posted: 06 Jan 2008 at 05:00 by shelly_saunders@bcs.org

  Creating X509 Certificates for Interop Scenarios (257K pdf). This article demonstrates how to create X509 Certificates for Mutual Certificate WS-Security in an mixed Java/Microsoft world. Certificates are converted into PKCS #12 format for use in Microsoft land and JKS format for use in Java land.

• Configuring WebSphere Portal 6 and JSR 168 Portlets to Use X509 Axis WS-Security and .NET WCF Web Se

  Posted: 04 Dec 2007 at 05:00 by shelly_saunders@bcs.org

  In a previous blog (see http://www.shellysaunders.co.uk/Blog/tabid/65/EntryID/2/Default.aspx) I showed how to write a Axis 2 java client that could inter-operate with a .NET WCF Web Service using X509 Certificates for encryption and signing. In this blog I provide some notes about how to configure W

• WS-Security Architecture for Interoperability

  Posted: 21 Nov 2007 at 05:00 by shelly_saunders@bcs.org

  This entry provides basic config information for making a Java web service client interoperate using mutaul X509 certificates with a .NET Web Service. On the Java side Axis2 and Rampart are used. The Web Service uses Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)

• ASP.NET Development for IBM WebSphere Portal Using Mainsoft for Java EE, Portal Edition

  Posted: 17 Nov 2007 at 00:00 by shelly_saunders@bcs.org

  Portals are increasingly considered an essential part of an enterprise SOA strategy. .NET developers however, have had limited options when it comes to portals, since most high-end portals--BEA's WebLogic Portal Server and IBM's WebSphere Portal Server come to mind--are based on Java EE. In this art