Beginning of this week; during the Tech Days 2008 in Paris, I had the great pleasure to discuss with Aurelien Verla and Grégory Renard about Tech Head Brothers authoring and publishing tool.

This is a video demonstrating the offline usage of the Tech Head Brothers authoring tool.

The tool is using now WCF in place of WSE3 and works great with ASP.NET membership and role.

I just updated the source code of my Tech Head Brothers Authoring tool on Codeplex.

Now it uses Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) in place of WSE 3.0 and Word 2007.

Since the beginning of this week I wasn’t able to search anymore in Outlook and has I am using this a lot I was really pissed off.

I finally found an explanation in one of the Microsoft Forum:

I started to migrate the Tech Head Brothers authoring tool and portal from Web Service Enhancement 3 (WSE 3) to Windows Communication Foundation (WCF). This is a next step in the integration of .NET Framework 3 in Tech Head Brothers portal.

Till today I was using WSE 3 from the Word VSTO solution to securely publish content to the portal directly out of Word 2003/2007.

What? How can you link those two!!!???

I am working on Tech Head Brothers Authoring tool and it means that I need to provide a setup to all the authors. I did it following a real long tutorial in two parts:

Today I am working on the security of my publishing web services for the next release of Tech Head Brothers Portal. The goal is to be able to post content on the portal using THBAuhtoring (you might get the source from Codeplex) a Word 2003 solution I developed. I wanted to build my proxy class like so: