Web Services Enhancements (WSE) 1.0 SP1 for Microsoft .NET

Brief Description

Web Services Enhancements (WSE) 1.0 Service Pack 1 for Microsoft® .NET provides important security, scalability, and performance enhancements. This is a recommended upgrade.

Overview

About WSE

Web Services Enhancements for Microsoft® .NET (WSE) is an add-on to Microsoft Visual Studio® .NET and the Microsoft .NET Framework providing developers the latest advanced Web services capabilities to keep pace with the evolving Web services protocol specifications. Future versions of WSE may contain breaking changes. The WSE support policy is two years of mainstream support and one year of extended support. To experiment with new unsupported capabilities, download the WSE 2.0 technology preview.

About WSE 1.0 SP1

Web Services Enhancements (WSE) 1.0 Service Pack 1 provides support for security features such as digital signature and encryption, message routing capabilities, and the ability to include message attachments that are not serialized into XML. Functionality is based on the WS-Security, WS-Routing, WS-Attachments and DIME specifications.

WSE 1.0 SP1 contains important security API, scalability and performance enhancements as well as bug fixes. This service pack is binary compatible with WSE 1.0 and does not require code changes to your existing WSE 1.0 applications to upgrade. It is recommended that you upgrade to WSE 1.0 SP1 if you are working with WSE 1.0 or any WSE technology previews. Before installing this service pack, it is recommended that you uninstall 1.0.

Web Services Enhancements 1.0 for Microsoft .NET is the released and supported version of the Web Services Development Kit Technology Preview (WSDK).

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System Requirements

Supported Operating Systems: Windows 2000; Windows Server 2003; Windows XP

Microsoft Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 1 or later
Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition with Service Pack 1 or later
Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional with Service Pack 3 or later
Microsoft Windows 2000 Server with Service Pack 3 or later
Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server with Service Pack 3 or later

Hardware requirements:

Processor Pentium 233 MHz; recommended: Pentium 300 MHz or faster
RAM 64 MB; recommended: 128 MB or higher

Additional Software:

Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) 5.0 or later
One of the following:

Microsoft .NET Framework SDK version 1.0 with Service Pack 2 or later
Microsoft .NET Framework SDK version 1.1.
Microsoft Visual Studio .NET
Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003

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Instructions

Click the Download link to start the download.
Do one of the following:

To start the installation immediately, click Open or Run this program from its current location.
To copy the download to your computer for installation at a later time, click Save or Save this program to disk.

Important: It is recommended that you upgrade to WSE 1.0 SP1 if you are working with WSE 1.0 or any WSE technology previews. Before installing this service pack, it is recommended that you uninstall 1.0 or any other previous versions.

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