The .NET Endpoint
Blog by the .NET and AppFabric teams about WCF and WF development, deployment, and management
Developing and Managing Services with Windows Server AppFabric
Today at PDC we are excited to introduce the Windows Server AppFabric Beta 1. AppFabric evolves the...
Author: Cliff Simpkins Date: 11/17/2009
PDC 2009: Developing REST Applications with the .NET Framework
Attending Microsoft PDC 2009? Then come hear Henrik Frystyk Nielsen's presentation on Developing...
Author: DotNetBlogger Date: 11/15/2009
Common User Mistake in .NET 4: Mistyping the WF/WCF Service Configuration Name
Today I am blogging about a common mistake that several developers have committed when using our...
Author: amadeoc Date: 11/09/2009
New Beta 2 docs to help with code migration (from .NET 3.x and .NET 4 Beta 1)
Fresh on the heels of the beta 2 release of .NET 4/Visual Studio 2010, the team has been working on...
Author: Cliff Simpkins Date: 11/02/2009
Going to PDC? Want to meet the team?
3 weeks to go until PDC09; sessions are being reviewed, demos are being polished, schedules are...
Author: Cliff Simpkins Date: 10/26/2009
Client Profile in .NET 4
If you redistribute or require .NET 4 for your applications, you now have the option of installing...
Author: DotNetBlogger Date: 10/21/2009
WF4 Changes Between Beta 1 and Beta 2
Hi all, I’m Matt Winkler, a PM on the WF team and occasional guest blogger here on the...
Author: Matt Winkler -- MSFT Date: 10/19/2009
3.5 SP1 RTM WCF Source Code Available
Late in the summer we have released WCF sources publically in the reference source. You can now...
Author: kmouss Date: 10/16/2009
Contract First Web Services with WCF
Christian Weyer has published a great article on the topic of Schema-based Development with Windows...
Author: KentBrown Date: 10/16/2009
All WCF, WF, and ‘Dublin’ sessions live on PDC site; 5 Weeks to Go!
We’re five weeks out from PDC09, and the rest of our sessions went live last week. I know I posted a...
Author: Cliff Simpkins Date: 10/14/2009
WCF Essentials Chapter 2 - WCF Templates and Tools
We’ve just published Chapter 2 in the WCF Essentials series. This new chapter is about WCF...
Author: KentBrown Date: 08/24/2009
A Developer's Guide to the WCF REST Starter Kit
We just published a new article: A Developer's Guide to the WCF REST Starter Kit. In this...
Author: KentBrown Date: 08/21/2009
Developer Introductions to WCF and WF in .NET 4 Beta 1
Looking for a single place to go to learn about what’s new in WCF and WF in .NET 4? We just...
Author: KentBrown Date: 08/03/2009
New “WCF Essentials” best practices series
Maybe you have decided WCF is the right technology for your next project because it has the power,...
Author: KentBrown Date: 07/30/2009
Migration Guidance for the WF Developer (Beta 1 - Part 2)
About six weeks ago, the WF team published up the first four WF3->WF4 migration guidance...
Author: Cliff Simpkins Date: 07/21/2009
Litware Training sample Mashup app
We've all heard of a "mashup" because its one of those buzz words, like "Web...
Author: KentBrown Date: 07/16/2009
Tracking Participants in .NET 4 Beta 1
Hello! My name is Miguel Susffalich and I work in the Connected Framework team. In previous posts we...
Author: DotNetBlogger Date: 07/14/2009
WF 3.5 Hands On Labs Updated
The ten Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) hands-on labs were updated today on Microsoft download...
Author: Cliff Simpkins Date: 06/30/2009
Dublin TAP program open for nominations
Microsoft is pleased to announce that nominations are now being accepted for participation in the...
Author: KentBrown Date: 06/30/2009
Service Configuration Improvements in .NET 4
Hello! I am Amadeo Casas Cuadrado, Program Manager in the Connected Framework team. I would like to...
Author: amadeoc Date: 06/30/2009
Dude, where’s my WCF content?
As you have probably noticed, the WCF Dev Center has changed quite a bit recently. If you are a...
Author: KentBrown Date: 06/19/2009
Workflow Tracking Profiles in .NET 4.0 Beta 1
Last week we introduced the new Workflow Tracking features in .NET 4.0. In this post we’ll do...
Author: DotNetBlogger Date: 06/19/2009
Learning by example with 4
We feel that learning by example is one of the easiest ways to get started with Windows Workflow...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 06/17/2009
Sequential and Flowchart modeling styles
WF 4 ships with an activity palette that consists of many activities – some of these are control...
Author: lwelicki Date: 06/12/2009
Introduction to Workflow Tracking in .NET Framework 4.0 Beta1
By now you must be aware of the significantly enhanced Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) scheduled to...
Author: DotNetBlogger Date: 06/11/2009
Improving the performance of web services in Silverlight 3 Beta
Cross-posted from the Silverlight Web Services Team Blog. Silverlight 3 Beta introduces a new way to...
Author: DotNetBlogger Date: 06/07/2009
Migration Guidance for the WF Developer
This morning, I’m pleased to announce that the team has posted four initial Windows Workflow...
Author: Cliff Simpkins Date: 06/05/2009
Workflow 4.0 Templates
This blog post introduces the Project and Item templates for Workflow 4.0. It also clarifies as to...
Author: DotNetBlogger Date: 06/01/2009
Debugging in Workflow 4.0
Continuing on the theme of Workflow 4.0 blog, this blog post talks about the enhancements and...
Author: DotNetBlogger Date: 06/01/2009
Introducing the new Workflow Designer in VS 2010
Matt Winkler, a Program Manager on the Workflow designer team has kicked off the blogging frenzy...
Author: Kavita Kamani - MSFT Date: 05/20/2009
VS 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 Beta1 available for download!
Yes! It's time. Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 Beta1 is available for general download...
Author: Kavita Kamani - MSFT Date: 05/20/2009
The Road to 4 – WCF Changes between Beta 1 and CTP
As I mentioned in my post last week covering the changes in WF 4 since the CTP release, I promised...
Author: Cliff Simpkins Date: 05/07/2009
Rundown on WCF, WF, and ‘Dublin’ sessions @ TechEd next week
As I spend much of this week finalizing items for TechEd next week, I thought it might be helpful to...
Author: Cliff Simpkins Date: 05/06/2009
The Road to 4 – WF Changes between Beta 1 and CTP
I can’t believe it’s been a few months since my post on the Road to WF 4, and the expected impact of...
Author: Cliff Simpkins Date: 05/01/2009
Check us out at TechEd North America 2009
Cross-posted from the Silverlight Web Services Team blog. I hope you enjoy the content we post on...
Author: DotNetBlogger Date: 04/20/2009
Hosting WCF Services in Windows Azure
Hi folks, Windows Azure is Microsoft's cloud services operating system, based on Windows Server 2008...
Author: DotNetBlogger Date: 04/07/2009
WCF Fight Night
The team launched a micro-site highlighting the multi-faceted capabilities of WCF. As part of this...
Author: Cliff Simpkins Date: 04/02/2009
What's new with web services in Silverlight 3 Beta
Cross-posted from the Silverlight Web Services Team Blog. Silverlight 3 beta comes with a set of...
Author: DotNetBlogger Date: 03/20/2009
"Paste XML as Types" in REST Starter Kit
Cross-posted from the Silverlight Web Services Team Blog. Just a quick announcement here of a...
Author: DotNetBlogger Date: 03/16/2009
Newly Posted - WCF REST Starter Kit Preview 2
Happy Thursday everyone, Earlier this afternoon, the WCF REST team released the second preview...
Author: Cliff Simpkins Date: 03/13/2009
WCF Support in Silverlight 2
WCF services can be accessed by a variety of clients, and this post will talk briefly about...
Author: DotNetBlogger Date: 03/09/2009
A Week with the Field
Every six months, a large portion of Microsoft's technical field converges on Seattle to discuss and...
Author: Cliff Simpkins Date: 02/03/2009
WCF Fix Available - .NET 3.5 SP1 GDR
Just a quick blog post to call out by a post by a colleague of mine, Ram Venkatesan, a couple days...
Author: Cliff Simpkins Date: 01/21/2009
The Road to WF 4.0 (Part 1)
The topic of 4.0 migrations has come up several times over the past week – in e-mail conversations...
Author: Cliff Simpkins Date: 01/20/2009
Leaving no Stonehenge unturned in the quest for web service interoperability
Microsoft recently donated the StockTrader source code to a new Apache incubation project called...
Author: KentBrown Date: 01/16/2009
New Virtual Lab - Using Test First Development with WF 3.5
I'm very pleased to announce the publication of a new WF 3.5 hands-on lab to the MSDN Virtual Labs...
Author: Cliff Simpkins Date: 12/01/2008
New RESTful .NET book available
Jon Flanders has been a thought leader in the area of doing REST in .NET. His new...
Author: KentBrown Date: 11/24/2008