The .NET Endpoint

Blog by the .NET and AppFabric teams about WCF and WF development, deployment, and management

Windows Server AppFabric now Generally Available

We are thrilled to announce the final availability of Windows Server AppFabric! As announced today...

Author: Cliff Simpkins Date: 06/07/2010

endpoint.tv - Activity Designers and Designer Rehosting with Kushal Shah

Windows Workflow Foundation in .Net 4 (WF4) makes it possible for you to build custom activity...

Author: Ron Jacobs Date: 06/04/2010

endpoint.tv - Windows Server AppFabric - Server Farm Setup

You asked for it...here it is. In this episode, Byron Tardif is back to explain how you can setup...

Author: Ron Jacobs Date: 06/02/2010

Updated WCF samples for Azure

Our samples over at https://code.msdn.com/wcfazure had gotten pretty stale, so I just put out an...

Author: DotNetBlogger Date: 05/26/2010

Now available!: Windows Server AppFabric RC and BizTalk Server 2010 beta

Several weeks ago, I told you about our upcoming Application Infrastructure Virtual Launch event....

Author: Cliff Simpkins Date: 05/20/2010

endpoint.tv - Troubleshooting with AppFabric

Troubleshooting applications in production is always a challenge. With AppFabric monitoring your...

Author: Ron Jacobs Date: 05/03/2010

AppFabric Virtual Launch on May 20th – Save the Date

To close out the month of April, I’m happy to share news of the event that the group will be...

Author: Cliff Simpkins Date: 04/30/2010

endpoint.tv - Ten Tips for Troubleshooting with the Windows Server AppFabric Dashboard

When you write the product documentation you learn all kinds of cool inside tips about how to use...

Author: Ron Jacobs Date: 04/30/2010

endpoint.tv - Workflow Services with Dave Cliffe

Windows Workflow in .NET 4 (WF4) includes a new set of messaging activities to help you build web...

Author: Ron Jacobs Date: 04/30/2010

Windows Server AppFabric Beta 2 Refresh for Visual Studio 2010/.NET 4 RTM

Today we are pleased to announce a Beta 2 Refresh for Windows Server AppFabric. This build supports...

Author: DotNetBlogger Date: 04/26/2010

endpoint.tv - Windows Server AppFabric - Configuring Monitoring Data

Windows Server AppFabric has extensive monitoring capabilities, which go beyond simply writing...

Author: Ron Jacobs Date: 04/22/2010

WF4 Activity Pack CTP1 Available (State Machine, Database)

I’m happy to announce that the WF4 Activity Pack CTP1 is now available for download.  This...

Author: Matt Winkler -- MSFT Date: 04/21/2010

endpoint.tv – Developing Services with IIS/Windows Server AppFabric

To those nearly 5000 people who tried to watch this video today… sorry.  I forgot to publish...

Author: Ron Jacobs Date: 04/19/2010

How to Create a Workflow Service using a Flowchart

If you love Flowcharts as I do you might have wondered if it is possible to create a Workflow...

Author: Ron Jacobs Date: 04/16/2010

Developing Web Services on IIS with Windows Server AppFabric

While Windows Server AppFabric is a great addition to your server to production management...

Author: Ron Jacobs Date: 04/14/2010

Today on https://endpoint.tv – Windows Server AppFabric Dashboard Overview

Windows Server AppFabric has this great new Dashboard that gives you insight into what is happening...

Author: Ron Jacobs Date: 04/09/2010

Windows Server AppFabric Architecture

A long time ago, applications running on Windows Server were simply EXEs, where developers wrote a...

Author: adamab Date: 03/24/2010

WCF custom channels survey

Hi all,Many of you love the extensibility of the channel model but have commented that writing...

Author: piyushjo Date: 03/24/2010

New CTP Available for Download: WF Migration Kit

Happy Monday! It’s an exciting time here as we start ramping up for launch next month. Within the...

Author: Cliff Simpkins Date: 03/08/2010

Windows Server AppFabric Beta 2 is Available!

We are excited to announce that the Beta 2 release of Windows Server AppFabric is now available for...

Author: adamab Date: 03/01/2010

Conditional GET and ETag Support in WCF WebHttp Services

This is part ten of a twelve part series that introduces the features of WCF WebHttp Services in...

Author: DotNetBlogger Date: 02/25/2010

Providing WCF and WF Feedback to Microsoft

Perhaps known to a smaller portion of general community of WCF developers and WF developers, there...

Author: Cliff Simpkins Date: 02/19/2010

Creating Views in WCF WebHttp Service with T4

This is part nine of a twelve part series that introduces the features of WCF WebHttp Services in...

Author: DotNetBlogger Date: 02/15/2010

RC docs are live!

The Visual Studio 2010 RC and .NET Framework 4.0 RC went live this week to MSDN subscribers. Our UE...

Author: Kavita Kamani - MSFT Date: 02/12/2010

WF4 runtime performance

Welcome to the first in a series of blog posts on WF4 performance. In this post, we will discuss the...

Author: DotNetBlogger Date: 02/10/2010

Discover a New WCF with Discovery!

Juval Lowy has a great article in the January 2010 issue of MSDN Magazine: Discover a New WCF with...

Author: KentBrown Date: 02/10/2010

4.0 Beta2 to RC/RTM WCF/WF List of Breaking changes

This list covers known breaking changes between 4.0 Beta2 and RC/RTM WCF & WF Framework. Summary...

Author: kmouss Date: 02/10/2010

WCF Rocks!

About a month ago, Ed Pinto and I did an interview with the .NET Rocks guys on What is new in WCF...

Author: KentBrown Date: 02/03/2010

Integrating ASP.NET Output Caching with WCF WebHttp Services

This is part seven of a twelve part series that introduces the features of WCF WebHttp Services in...

Author: DotNetBlogger Date: 01/28/2010

Using Routes to Compose WCF WebHttp Services

This is part six of a twelve part series that introduces the features of WCF WebHttp Services in...

Author: DotNetBlogger Date: 01/25/2010

Workflow Persistence in the Windows Server AppFabric

What does the persistence subsystem do? The persistence subsystem is responsible for making a...

Author: adamab Date: 01/21/2010

Error Handling in WCF WebHttp Services with WebFaultException

This is part five of a twelve part series that introduces the features of WCF WebHttp Services in...

Author: DotNetBlogger Date: 01/21/2010

Automatic and Explicit Format Selection in WCF WebHttp Services

This is part four of a twelve part series that introduces the features of WCF WebHttp Services in...

Author: DotNetBlogger Date: 01/18/2010

Updating State in WCF WebHttp Services

This is part three of a twelve part series that introduces the features of WCF WebHttp Services in...

Author: DotNetBlogger Date: 01/14/2010

New Beta 2 docs posted in the WF Migration series

Welcome to 2010! Over the past week, we posted four new documents into the WF4 Migration Guidance...

Author: Cliff Simpkins Date: 01/11/2010

Monitoring and troubleshooting with .NET 4 and Windows Server AppFabric

By now you may have read about the exciting new capabilities in Windows Server AppFabric. In this...

Author: adamab Date: 01/11/2010

Clients and the Automatic Help Page in WCF WebHttp Services

This is part two of a twelve part series that introduces the features of WCF WebHttp Services in...

Author: DotNetBlogger Date: 01/11/2010

New Year’s Resolution Suggestion: Learn WCF

Come on, admit it.  You’ve been thinking for months that it’s time to take the dive and learn...

Author: KentBrown Date: 01/11/2010

Getting Started with WCF WebHttp Services in .NET 4

This is part one of a twelve part series that introduces the features of WCF WebHttp Services in...

Author: DotNetBlogger Date: 01/07/2010

Introducing WCF WebHttp Services in .NET 4

Over the next six weeks we are going to be releasing a series of blog posts that will focus on the...

Author: DotNetBlogger Date: 01/06/2010

What’s a Correlation and why do I want to Initialize it?

In .NET 4.0, we have introduced a framework for correlation.  What do I mean by...

Author: Dave Cliffe - MSFT Date: 01/04/2010

WCF, Data Services and RIA Services Alignment Questions and Answers

Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is the heart of the Microsoft Developer story around...

Author: DotNetBlogger Date: 01/04/2010

Hosting Enhancements in .NET4 and Windows Server AppFabric

This blog post drills down on the various hosting capabilities of WCF and WF in .NET 4 and for...

Author: adamab Date: 12/08/2009

Getting started with Windows Server AppFabric

In a previous post we introduced Windows Server AppFabric, a set of extensions to the Windows...

Author: adamab Date: 11/30/2009

WCF Interoperability Highlighted at PDC and ApacheCon

At PDC this week we had a booth to showcase the interoperability that WCF gives you through its...

Author: KentBrown Date: 11/20/2009

Claims-based security with Windows Identity Foundation (WIF) and WCF

There is a great article in MSDN Magazine this month by Michele Bustamante on using WIF to implement...

Author: KentBrown Date: 11/20/2009

The WCF services ecosystem

At PDC, Microsoft announced the rebranding of ADO.NET Data Services as WCF Data Services and of .NET...

Author: DotNetBlogger Date: 11/18/2009

New Web Services features in Silverlight 4 Beta

Cross-posted from the Silverlight Web Services Team Blog. This morning at PDC ’09 ScottGu just...

Author: DotNetBlogger Date: 11/18/2009

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