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Review: 'Red Dragon' rich, empty meal. Ya, but I'm still going to go see it...

Matthew Osborn is nuts. 

I do a lot of work with small offices on the side, and consequently I have to write a lot of VBA code.  I tried writing some of that in C# and ended up wrapping the Office Automation interfaces automatically with Visual Studio.NET. Fortunately, Microsoft has released the blessed Microsoft Office Primary Interop Assemblies.  There's also a tutorial which touches on the importances of PIAs in bridging the .NET to COM gap.

"Web services are like high school sex. Everyone is talking about doing it, but hardly anyone is, and those that are probably aren't doing it well."  - as heard by Dion Almaer

Lot's of thoughts on Web Services today...it's no because doubt of Chris Sell's upcoming WebServices DevCon

Some great info from Sam Gentile today.  He says:

• Web Services Threat Detection from Greg Reinacker.  Interesting to have your Web Services calls siliently redirected to a "honeypot" for analysis...as with any fraud detection system, false positives would be a problem.
• Server-Side Asynchronous Web Methods
  Matt Powell shows how to make use of asynchronous Web methods on the server side to create high performance Microsoft ASP.NET Web services.

Peter Drayton offers:

• Mayank Prakash's Web services architectures: Easier said than done is a great article.  It is one of the first articles that reminds the layman that SOAP and Web Services are not one and the same.  It mentions a good example services from the W3C that uses the REST Protocol.

Sam also notes that on the .NET tip, NUnit 2.0 was released today and Lamont Adams loves C#:

• NUnit 2.0 Released.
  "This is the second major release of the xUnit based unit testing tool for Microsoft .NET. It is written entirely in C# and has been completely redesigned to take advantage of many .NET language features, for example custom attributes and other reflection related capabilities."
• How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love C#
  Lamont Adamas: "How I learned to stop worrying and love C#-After arguing for a long time that there's no difference between VB.NET and C#, the author is jumping on the C# bandwagon."