Middleware stories
Random problems & solutions covering Microsoft's distributed technologies
UsernameToken Profile vs. WCF
The WS-Security UsernameToken Profile 1.0 defines how the username and password can be encapsulated...
Author: Akos Date: 06/24/2010
Override AtlThrow with care
ATL allows you to replace its stock routine, AtlThrow, for communicating an error back to the caller...
Author: Akos Date: 05/12/2010
WIF on Windows Server 2003
I was setting up Windows Identity Foundation (WIF, formerly known as Geneva) on Windows Server 2003...
Author: Akos Date: 04/26/2010
Garbage collection vs. expression evaluation
A few months ago, a customer contacted us with a problem that seemed to be related to WCF. As it...
Author: Akos Date: 04/23/2010
Service metadata: size does matter
Web services use standards like WSDL and WS-Policy to describe themselves in an interoperable...
Author: Akos Date: 02/04/2010
Tool of the month: Microsoft Service Trace Viewer
I was quite busy during the last two months, but today I’m back with a new post. If you use WCF,...
Author: Akos Date: 02/01/2010
CAtlHttpClient and NTLM authentication
I’m working on a customer problem that revolves around NTLM authentication. To cut a long story...
Author: Akos Date: 11/19/2009
WCF Performance Counters
WCF offers its own set of performance counters, which allow you to observe the live performance of...
Author: Akos Date: 10/19/2009
Avoid using Assembly.LoadFrom
On MSDN, there’s a warning that using Assembly.LoadFrom() has disadvantages. The following could be...
Author: Akos Date: 10/16/2009
Visual Basic 6 and .NET COM Interop
This is a quite popular topic on the Internet, and this has a reason: a lot of developers need to...
Author: Akos Date: 10/12/2009
First post
Hello and welcome to my blog on MSDN.My name is Ákos Szegő and I work as a Technical Lead in the...
Author: Akos Date: 10/06/2009