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Soap Toolkit 3.0 [Soap Toolkit 3.0]

surferdude — Fri, 10 Sep 2004 19:47:30 GMT

I've got some questions and suggestions I'd appreciate feedback on from the MSFT folks. I've been reading up on the SOAP Toolkit 3.0 recently, and have found that it could work incredibly well for a project I'm currently working on. According to Rebecca Dias - Advanced Web Services Product Manager, Microsoft Corporation, the toolkit was primarily meant for "demonstration purposes". There have been a number of arguments as to why this does not appear to be the case, and also why the .NET framework is not the answer to some application requirements.

My reasoning for considering the toolkit rather than the .NET framework is identical to one of these arguments, specifically that the application I am developing must be a light weight download for 2K and XP. Our teams initial suggestion was that the application be done in C# using .NET, but this was immediately shot down by Marketing when they were told we might have to include the 24MB framework download, on top of the latest MSXML libraries.

So, maybe the folks there at MSFT can offer up some suggestions on how to accomplish SOAP development, without using .NET, and without using a discontinued toolkit meant for demonstration purposes only? Also, what are the chances MS might consider open sourcing the toolkit, so that the community can continue to develop and support it?

-surf

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More IE requests... [More IE requests...]

surferdude — Wed, 07 Jul 2004 05:24:00 GMT

Maybe already mentioned, but in case it hasn't -

In Firefox, when I increase the font size, the font size increases. In IE, increasing the font size rarely has any effect for whatever reason.

It's the little things that matter when the front lines are fairly even.

- surf

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Security - XP & Longhorn [Security - XP & Longhorn]

surferdude — Sun, 02 May 2004 19:39:10 GMT

Hey All,

With the recent unleashing of yet another worm targeted at Microsoft's most secure operating system yet, I'd appreciate hearing a bit about what you guys are doing differently to make Longhorn more secure. Microsoft has accomplished many amazing thing over the last 25 years. When you put your minds to it, you usually accomplish something very impressive. (Internet Explorer for example) Is software security something you now have as top priority? Are we going to see 'revolutionary' improvement? (IMHO - we really need too.)

And maybe, if you have the time, help me a little - how would you characterize XP today security wise? Would you describe XP as being secure? How would you defend yourselves when challenged by non Windows users who use the worm and virus outbreaks as anti-Microsoft ammunition?

- surferdude

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