Buck Hodges

Azure DevOps (formerly VSTS and Team Foundation Server)

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December CTP is available!

December 30, 2004 Dec 30, 2004 12/30/04
Buck Hodges
Since my last post ages ago was about a CTP release, I'll start back up again with a post to point to the December CTP.  This one is definitely an improvement over the last one, though it is clear we still have a ways to go.You may want to check out the newsgroups for VSTS.  There are a number of people there who post information ...

Handling HTTP response codes in SOAP proxies

August 13, 2004 Aug 13, 2004 08/13/04
Buck Hodges
Continuing with the last post on authentication issues with wsdl.exe-generated SOAP proxies, you may need to handle HTTP status codes to provide custom exceptions.  To do this, the SoapHttpClientProtocol class (actually its parent HttpWebClientProtocol) provides a pair of GetWebResponse() methods for derived classes to override...

More on working with SOAP proxies

August 10, 2004 Aug 10, 2004 08/10/04
Buck Hodges
In my last post on authentication and SOAP proxies, I mentioned setting the Credentials property on the wsdl.exe-generated proxy object.  Another way to do it and do other things is to override the GetWebRequest() method. In the following example, the culture is set in the standard HTTP header to tell the server what culture to use for ...

Windows XP SP2

August 9, 2004 Aug 9, 2004 08/9/04
Buck Hodges
So while the main distribution is by Windows Update, you can get SP2 as one large (266MB) download from the Microsoft Download Center.  The download page urges users to turn on Windows Update and wait if only updating one machine, because the typical amount downloaded by the smart downloader is about 80 MB.  If you ...

So what runs on Virtual PC 2004?

August 9, 2004 Aug 9, 2004 08/9/04
Buck Hodges
I was reading an article comparing Virtual PC 2004 and VMWare 4.5, and they mentioned a link to a site called “What Works and What Doesn't in Microsoft Virtual PC 2004.”  The site currently lists 622 entries...

Another Hatteras blogger: Jim Presto

August 2, 2004 Aug 2, 2004 08/2/04
Buck Hodges
Jim Presto, a tester on the Hatteras team, has got a blog going.  He starts off with checkin and promises to delve into checkin policies next.  Now, he mentions that “hopefully everyone has the concept of a portfolio project,” but I'm not sure about that.  Perhaps James will post some more about that and how it ...

Using pushd to get to network paths

July 31, 2004 Jul 31, 2004 07/31/04
Buck Hodges
A short while ago I saw someone at the office use pushd to cd into a network path.  I've used pushd/popd on Windows for some time, but I never thought to try it on a network path or actually read the help for it.  Pushd will actually map the path to a drive letter automatically and then take you there.  The latter part is ...

Python on .NET just got more support

July 30, 2004 Jul 30, 2004 07/30/04
Buck Hodges
Jim Hugunin, who has been writing IronPython, has been hired by Jason Zander (CLR PUM).  He joins the CLR team on Monday, August 2, to work full time on IronPython and generally supporting dynamic/scripting languages on the CLR.  That's really great news for Python on .NET.  Check out the slide from his ...

Authentication and SOAP proxies

July 29, 2004 Jul 29, 2004 07/29/04
Buck Hodges
My last post discussed authentication in web service calls using HttpWebRequest.  That caused one reader to wonder how this ties back to SOAP requests.If you are using wsdl.exe to generate a SOAP proxy class, it derives from System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol.  That class has a Credentials property. If you want to ...