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One of the most attended Hands-On-Labs last week at TechEd was the one by the TabletPC group. It was probably because they were giving away cute-sy, little USB memory keys, but anything that gets people to look more at tablets is good.

This new article is a much extended version of a post I had here several months ago. It desribes the various problems you can encounter working with the XmlSerializer and how to diagnose them. You can find the article here.

On my last Biztalk project, I had to call a Web service interface containing an operation with an enumerated data type. As it turned out, that’s a non-trivial task. You would think that importing the WSDL would create a .NET enumerated type which you can use in a Message Assignment shape.

I recently listened to Christian’s web cast on WSE 2.0, which is in German. I noticed a couple of things:

About a month ago, there was a flurry of activity around the question if remoting is dead. Now some people think that it's not dead, it just smells funny.

The Microsoft Office Integration Bridge Framework (IBF) was announced in Monday's opening keynote. It allows you easily hook up web services to Microsoft office applications. Download it here.

I blogged about the message tracing feature in WSE yesterday, but WSE isn’t the only recent Microsoft product with a built-in tracing feature.

Steve Ballmer said in today's opening keynote at TechEd: