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Updated jQuery and WCF 3.5 JSON Samples posted

Rick Strahls WebLog, June 25, 2008

Since I last posted my DevConnection samples, there have been a number of changes with jQuery and jQuery Ui. During the conference and for some of my own applications I'd been using intermediate build...

Configuring WCF Services and Getting Them Ready to Ship

DevX: .NET Feed, June 23, 2008

Get your WCF services production ready by learning all the configurable entities that make a WCF service rock solid and ready to ship....

Crashing WCF 3.5 JSON Services with DateTime.MinValue

Rick Strahls WebLog, June 23, 2008

Ah, here's another fun one. I've been working on cleaning up some of the DevConnections Demos from last year with jQuery 1.2.6 and the release version of jQuery.ui 1.5 as I had previously been using b...

Rant: WCF defaults limit concurrency/scalability

Cirrus Minor, June 15, 2008

I guess the designers of WCF really want to discourage some of the uses of the framework - I can't really understand some of their choices, if that was not the case. For instance, when you create a...

Streaming large content with WCF and deferred execution

Pablo M. Cibraro (aka Cibrax), June 10, 2008

I will use this post to discuss an scenario that you may run into while working with WCF, a service that returns a lot of objects (Or large data) to the client applications. This scenario is not about...

Super Easy way to add WCF to SharePoint 2007: www.codeplex.com/SPWCFSupport

Sahil Malik - blah.winsmarts.com, May 25, 2008

    Download it here - http://www.codeplex.com/SPWCFSupport     I blogged earlier about "SharePoint as a WCF host". Specifically there are 4 easy steps - ...

Unit Tests for WCF (and Moq) Part II

Pablo M. Cibraro (aka Cibrax), May 20, 2008

  My latest post about "creating wrapper classes" for mocking the WCF context has started generating some controversies. I initially wrote those classes to decouple my service implementation fr...

REST And RSS Syndication with WCF

Patrik Löwendahls shout, May 15, 2008

A week or so ago I put up a web cast in Swedish on  how WCF 3.5 supports REST and how the Syndication API's work. The demo shows of a little service that exposes the event-log via RSS. If you un...

SharePoint 2007 as a WCF host - Step #1, make a WCF Home

Sahil Malik - blah.winsmarts.com, May 9, 2008

The first thing you need to do is find a home for your WCF services. You could put them inside _layouts or _vti_bin, but I like to keep things clean and create a new home fo...

When to use Async Service Operations

kennyw.com, April 30, 2008

I was recently asked about the motivation for choosing asynchronous service operations in WCF (i.e. [OperationContract(AsyncPattern = true)]). If you have an operation that is blocking (accessing SQL,...

Book Review: Learning WCF

Guy Barrettes WebLog, April 25, 2008

Learning WCF Author: Michele Leroux Bustamante Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. ISBN-10: 0596101627 ISBN-13: 978-0596101626 Retail Price: $44.99 US, $58.99 CDN Publication Date: May 2007 Softcover: 5...

WCF Request Throttling and Server Scalability

Wenlong Dongs Blog, April 21, 2008

Two Threads per Request In .NET 3.0 and 3.5, there is a special behavior that you would observe for IIS-hosted WCF services. Whenever a request comes in, the system would use two threads to process th...

MCTS in WCF

Glavs Blog, April 20, 2008

So a little while ago, I mentioned that I did a WCF beta exam for a Microsoft Certified Technical Specialist. Its been a long time since I did that and I had kinda forgotten about it, but today I rece...

How to do SSL pass-through with WCF (a link for the MVP crowd)

Web Services, April 14, 2008

I sat in on a very informative roundtable discussion about WCF tips, tricks and pitfalls this afternoon here at the MVP conference. In that discussion one of the topics that came up was load balancing...

WCF - New Category on my Blog

Sahil Malik - blah.winsmarts.com, April 12, 2008

Announcing a new category on my blog for WCF - The Windows Communication Foundation. Over the next many blogposts, I will be walking through various aspects of WCF. All of t...

WCF Custom FaultException

Guy Barrettes WebLog, April 11, 2008

I was trying to return a WCF custom FaultException and just couldnt figure out how to read the custom info I was sending from the client when I found this blog entry from Jean-Paul Smit:http...

Tech-Ed Eilat My favorite lectures

Wortzels blog, April 7, 2008

More than a half of Tech-Ed convention is over, and I would like to share with you some of my favorite lectures. The first lecture was about SOAP/WS-* and REST: Complementary Communication Styles by ...

Why choose WCF for REST?

All About Interop, April 2, 2008

Chuck, in a comment on a previous post, posed this question:  Why choose WCF for a REST app?  Here it is in full context: I'm having a hard time justifying why I would use WCF for REST. It...

Content-Type negotiation and REST (and how WCF fits in)

All About Interop, March 28, 2008

Just had a comment-exchange on my prior post on How to build a REST app in WCF. I thought I would reproduce and elaborate on it a bit here, in a post. Kyle Beyer asked how to make WCF honor a content...

The WCF Samples have been updated

All About Interop, March 24, 2008

The WCF samples published by Microsoft were updated in early March 2008. Download the samples here....

I updated the WCF Wikipedia page

All About Interop, March 24, 2008

Check it out.  The prior version had a bunch of things that were unclear, inaccurate, incomplete, or just plain goofy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Communication_Foundation If you no lik...

How to Build a REST app in .NET (with WCF)

All About Interop, March 20, 2008

My prior post talked about how NOT to write a REST app in .NET. I mentioned WCF as the preferred option. In this post, I'll describe the steps for how you should do it. Some background First up, you...

Windows Communication Foundation - 65 Links to make you an expert!

Misfit Geek, March 15, 2008

Some time ago I posted a list of links to Windows Workflow Foundation Tutorials and since then I've been getting an increasing number of requests for a list of links to WCF tutorials. So, here you ...

Windows Communication Foundation - 65 Links to make you an expert!

Misfit Geek, March 14, 2008

Some time ago I posted a list of links to Windows Workflow Foundation Tutorials and since then I've been getting an increasing number of requests for a list of links to WCF tutorials. So, here you ...

Windows Communication Foundation - 65 Links to make you an expert!

Misfit Geek, March 14, 2008

Some time ago I posted a list of links to Windows Workflow Foundation Tutorials and since then I've been getting an increasing number of requests for a list of links to WCF tutorials. So, here you ...

Windows Communication Foundation - 65 Links to make you an expert!

Misfit Geek, March 14, 2008

Some time ago I posted a list of links to Windows Workflow Foundation Tutorials and since then I've been getting an increasing number of requests for a list of links to WCF tutorials. So, here you ...

RestChess: MySpace + WCF @ Mix

steve maines blog, March 11, 2008

Sadly, duty called and I didn't get to make it to Mix '08 this year. To make up for it, I think I'll take a couple days this week to watch some recorded sessions via teh intarweb and then drive to th...

Tell me...what do you want for WCF adapter documenation?

BizTalk Adapter Development, March 10, 2008

Hi Is there a specific WCF adapter sample or whitepaper you feel you would like to see written? If so, please email me directly and let's discuss to see if I can get what is needed any WCF adapter con...

Book Excerpt: Essential Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) for .NET Framework 3.5

DevX: .NET Feed, March 7, 2008

This revamped book covers developing with the latest release of WCF in Visual Studio 2008 on the .NET Framework 3.5, giving practical advice, numerous examples, tips and tricks, and ways to avoid the ...

Processing multiple queues in FIFO order with WCF

Stephen Kaufman's WebLog, February 21, 2008

In my previous entry on Processing FIFO MSMQ Messages using WCF I said that I would cover processing multiple queues and processing each queue in FIFO order.    If you remember, our require...

WEBCAST: Building Workflow Services (WF+WCF) with Visual Studio 2008

Federal Developer Weblog, February 20, 2008

The Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) are two very relevant technologies within .NET 3.x for Public Sector applications. WCF represents a total unification la...

WCF - Syndication Extensions

Pablo M. Cibraro (aka Cibrax), February 8, 2008

Syndication support was one of the nice features introduced in the latest WCF drop (3.5).  At first glance, I can say the APIs are great, allowing you to write a syndication feed in matter of min...

WCF & ASP.NET Role Provider

Glavs Blog, February 8, 2008

So I was talking to Shea Strickland a relatively new starter in readify who is doing some WCF work and asked  about the role provider support in WCF. He pointed me to an article by Dominick Baier...

Another SOAP and REST discussion, Same Result

All About Interop, February 5, 2008

Catching up with some reading, I was looking through the SDTimes issue from January 1st (yes, I know, it is now February.  Cut me some slack!).  In it, Sanjiva Weerawarana, CEO of WS02, has ...

Detect Client IP in WCF 3.5

Keyvan Nayyeri, January 28, 2008

One of the features that was missing from WCF 3.0 was the ability to detect client IP address in services. For a technology that is completely built on top of SOA hence a server/client mechanism where...

Creating and consuming a WCF service to test the EntityBag class

Julia Lerman Blog - Dont Be Iffy..., January 25, 2008

Danny Simmons has posted the code for his EntityBag class (aka "Perseus") on the MSDN Code Gallery Site here. I grabbed it last night and set up a test project so that I could see what the payloa...

WEBCAST: What's New in the WCF and WF in Visual Studio 2008 & the .NET Framework 3.5 (January07)

Federal Developer Weblog, January 24, 2008

Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) and Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) were released in 2006 as part of the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 with separate extensions for Microsoft Visual Studio 2005....

WCF - Handling Generic Messages

Glavs Blog, January 19, 2008

I had a requirement for a client where we were upgrading a web site that had a business web service exposed, and we had to create a new service that was identical in operation to the old (from a consu...

WCF Web Programming Model Documentation

steve maines blog, January 18, 2008

I've gotten a lot of requests (internally and externally) for requests for resources on how to use the new WCF Web Programming Model features in .NET 3.5. MSDN has a lot of great content on this stu...

My Dumb WCF Lesson for the day

Julia Lerman Blog - Dont Be Iffy..., January 18, 2008

I was moving some code around and had a nice WCF Interface and Service Interface created. So I copied them into a new project where I was re-creating my work. When I tried to debug (self-host) the s...

A Follow-up on PIAB+WCF Integration

Tom Hollanders blog, January 12, 2008

Last month I posted an entry describing how to invoke the Policy Injection Application Block at WCF service boundaries by using custom WCF behaviours. Since then I've discovered a couple of new thing...

WCF As The Next Object Runtime in .NET?

Patrik Löwendahls shout, January 11, 2008

The more I work with Windows Communication Foundation the more I see it as an extraordinary piece of technology. With the ability to easily extend and intercept messages it's much more dynamic than an...

Why does the Adapter say Action is not understood even though I am using the binding file generated by the Consume Adapter Service wizard?

BizTalk Adapter Development, January 9, 2008

Believe me, the adapter is telling the truth! It really doesnt understand the action it got! To understand whats going on, read on When you use the Consume Adapter Service wizard to generate LOB schem...

Configuration Merge for WCF

Pablo M. Cibraro (aka Cibrax), December 24, 2007

One of the blog's readers from Italy, Fabio Cozzolino has written a interesting host for WCF that gets and merges configuration from different configuration files. You can download the code from his p...

Configuration Merge for WCF

Pablo M. Cibraro (aka Cibrax), December 24, 2007

One of the blog's readers from Italy, Fabio Cozzolino has written a interesting host for WCF that gets and merges configuration from different configuration files. You can download the code from his p...

MSMQ Label Property and WCF

Stephen Kaufman's WebLog, December 18, 2007

The label property of an MSMQ message has been used for many things.  Developers still use the label property and want to continue to use it.  So, how do you get access to this property in W...

WCF Clients and COM Interop

Rick Strahls WebLog, December 17, 2007

One thing that may not be real obvious when moving WCF client code from say Web Service References is that the Web Service clients generated for WCF are not easily accessible via COM Interop. With ASM...

WCF and interoperability

Glavs Blog, December 16, 2007

I was trying to create an endpoint using WCF that was to look almost identical to an existing endpoint hat was created using some java tools (we were creating a new .Net app and had to mimic some olde...

Host multiple services in windows service (on-line WCF services and batch services)

Wortzels blog, December 14, 2007

In the last sprint we (Ori my teammate and me) had a task to create an infrastructure to manage some common processes in our systems. The processes can be a batch, schedule tasks and on-line services...

WCF Dependency Injection Behavior

Pablo M. Cibraro (aka Cibrax), December 13, 2007

Many times the services are just part of a service layer interface or facade that only delegate calls to other components in lower layers, such as entity translators, business logic components, data a...

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