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Windows Communication Foundation From the Inside

Reaching a More Permanent Conclusion

Taking some mandatory time off for system maintenance and upgrading grew into deciding that the time...

Date: 06/30/2010

Extended Down Time

MSDN will be migrating to a new blog platform during all of next week. During that time comments...

Date: 05/13/2010

Identity Framework SDK and Training Kit for Visual Studio 2010

A new version of the Windows Identity Framework SDK and developer training kit is available...

Date: 05/12/2010

Debugging a Missing HostedTransportConfiguration Type

When browsing to a service hosted in IIS I get an error that the protocol does not have an...

Date: 05/11/2010

WCF Data Services V1 Client Library and Update

The WCF Data Services team has released the source code for their OData client libraries on .Net 3.5...

Date: 05/10/2010

Claims Visualization

Dominick Baier has a visualization for claims in the Visual Studio debugger. I’m not sure what other...

Date: 05/07/2010

Service Activation without Files

WCF services in IIS use a .svc file to bootstrap the process of activating a service. It’s possible...

Date: 05/06/2010

Routing and Impersonation

Can the routing service introduced with .Net 4 be used with impersonation? Yes, the routing service...

Date: 05/05/2010

Multiple Site Bindings

A WCF application in IIS is a service page that is hosted under a site. You can assign different...

Date: 05/04/2010

May and June ReMIX 2010 Events

ReMIX is an annual twist on the MIX conference that takes a small portion of the content presented...

Date: 05/03/2010

Windows Server AppFabric Refresh and Videos

Windows Server AppFabric provides management, monitoring, and other component services for WCF...

Date: 04/30/2010

HTTPS Host Name for IIS

The configuration of an IIS site includes the ability to associate a host name with a particular...

Date: 04/29/2010

Schema Errors Extending Configuration

After adding a custom binding element to configuration as a binding element extension, Visual Studio...

Date: 04/28/2010

Network Tracing Betas

Two frequently used network diagnostic tools have gotten beta updates this week. Network Monitor is...

Date: 04/27/2010

Optional Xml Fields

When using DataContractSerializer with a data member that has IsRequired set to false, the generated...

Date: 04/26/2010

Fix for Generating Metadata Behind a Router

When generating metadata to describe a service, an address is published for the location at which...

Date: 04/23/2010

Silverlight 4 Business Application Course

The Silverlight 4 business application training course is a set of videos and labs divided into...

Date: 04/22/2010

Moonlight 3 Preview 6

Moonlight, the Linux version of Silverlight, has produced its sixth preview release of Moonlight 3....

Date: 04/21/2010

WCF RIA Services Release Candidate 2

Late last week a second release candidate for WCF RIA Services was released. RIA Services are an...

Date: 04/20/2010

Download the Moving to Visual Studio 2010 Draft

Moving to Visual Studio 2010 is a developer guide for learning about the new features of Visual...

Date: 04/19/2010

Ten 2010 Services Videos

Ten talks of interest for web service developers from the recent TechDays 2010 and DevDays 2010...

Date: 04/16/2010

Official Start of Azure AppFabric Service

The Service Bus and Access Control online services through Windows Azure AppFabric have now moved...

Date: 04/15/2010

WCF 4 Samples and Training

The WCF 4 sample collection is now available as a direct download independent from the framework or...

Date: 04/14/2010

Silverlight 4 Launch Event

The Silverlight 4 launch event at the DevConnections conference will be taking place today. Starting...

Date: 04/13/2010

Visual Studio 2010 and .Net 4 Released

The release events for Visual Studio 2010 and .Net 4 started this morning and will continue...

Date: 04/12/2010

Finding Your Place

How do I examine the settings for the endpoint that the message for the current operation was...

Date: 04/09/2010

To Appear in the Windows 7 SDK

Shortly after Visual Studio 2010 ships the Windows 7 SDK will be updated to include the development...

Date: 04/08/2010

Starter STS Sample

Dominick Baier has put up the completed StarterSTS sample that demonstrates how to write, configure,...

Date: 04/07/2010

Debugging Delegation and Kerberos Configuration

I came across an interesting tool the other day that can be used to debug and diagnose configuration...

Date: 04/06/2010

Referring to Generic Interfaces in Contracts

How do I write a contract type that has a generic parameter in a service configuration file? A...

Date: 04/05/2010

Rolling Your Own Status

I’m trying to use an HTTP method that has defined a private protocol for status code. What can I do...

Date: 04/02/2010

ServiceHostBase Never Calls ApplyConfiguration

The ServiceHost class is the primary host for running services programmed using the WCF service...

Date: 04/01/2010

Changes to Default Throttle Settings

I buried this in a previous update on changes in .Net 4 but here’s a more prominent description of...

Date: 03/31/2010

Windows Azure Guidance and Survey

The patterns and practices team has released an updated version of their samples for Windows Azure...

Date: 03/30/2010

Channel Development Survey

The WCF channels team has posted a short survey on channel development to collect some of your...

Date: 03/29/2010

Exploring Managed Applications

The new version of Process Explorer that was released this week has some features for exploring...

Date: 03/26/2010

Visual Studio 2010 Virtual Machines

If you'd like to try out some of these recent releases without a dedicated machine, there are...

Date: 03/25/2010

OData SDK Released

OData is a protocol for exchanging structured data sets in an interoperable fashion. The .Net...

Date: 03/24/2010

WCF RIA Services Release Candidate

Together with the Silverlight 4 Release Candidate comes the WCF RIA Services Release Candidate. RIA...

Date: 03/23/2010

Silverlight 4 Release Candidate

At the MIX10 conference last week was the announcement that the Silverlight 4 Release Candidate was...

Date: 03/22/2010

Legacy Created, Obsoleted, and Destroyed Before Shipping

As far as I can tell there has never been a description of what the mysterious...

Date: 03/19/2010

Fix for HTTP Configuration Errors using WebScriptEnablingBehavior

I've sufficiently recovered from running the last week-long series covering fixes for WCF to do...

Date: 03/18/2010

Fix to Allow Providing Outgoing Supporting Tokens

I've sufficiently recovered from running the last week-long series covering fixes for WCF to do...

Date: 03/17/2010

Fix to Disable Transport Security with Message Credentials

I've sufficiently recovered from running the last week-long series covering fixes for WCF to do...

Date: 03/16/2010

Fix to Disable Security on Responses

I've sufficiently recovered from running the last week-long series covering fixes for WCF to do...

Date: 03/15/2010

ASP.NET MVC 2 Released for Visual Studio 2008

Ok, a release of ASP.NET MVC 2 coming soon turned out to mean coming extremely soon. I had been...

Date: 03/12/2010

ASP.NET MVC Migration Tool

Eilon Lipton has posted a migration tool for converting ASP.NET MVC 1 application projects to the...

Date: 03/11/2010

Getting WCF 4 Release Candidate Documentation

Although I didn't include it in the release candidate announcement, the online documentation...

Date: 03/10/2010

Two More Fixes for Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate

Two fixes were published over the last few days to address issues reported with the Visual Studio...

Date: 03/09/2010

Identity and Access Control Guide

The patterns and practices group at Microsoft has released an online guide to claims-based identity...

Date: 03/08/2010

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