NathanA's Mostly Web Services Blog
WCF Express Interop Binding on App Fabric TV
Here’s a new video I’m in from App Fabric TV doing a demo of the Express Interop...
Author: Nathan Anderson - MSFT Date: 07/27/2011
Windows Azure AppFabric June CTP released
Hurry over to https://portal.appfabriclabs.com/ to sign up, space is limited. This release showcases...
Author: Nathan Anderson - MSFT Date: 06/21/2011
Exciting new bindings for WCF<->Java Interop
When configuring web services you have a lot of choices. You have security algorithms, token...
Author: Nathan Anderson - MSFT Date: 06/21/2011
Text Encoding and WCF
For the most part setting the encoding (UTF-8, UTF-16, etc.) on a WCF service is pretty...
Author: Nathan Anderson - MSFT Date: 04/05/2011
Deciphering a SOAP fault with a 400 status code
Recently working with a partner I came across a solution for a limitation in WCF error...
Author: Nathan Anderson - MSFT Date: 03/31/2011
TestApi v0.3 released
TestApi is a collection of test and utility API's written to make testing WPF, WinForms, .NET, and...
Author: Nathan Anderson - MSFT Date: 07/27/2009
XAMLFest
If you're interested in what XAML can do for you today and what tooling is available, check out...
Author: Nathan Anderson - MSFT Date: 05/22/2009
New XAML features in .NET 4.0 Beta 1
There's a whole new XAML stack in the recently released beta 1 (download here) with a bunch of...
Author: Nathan Anderson - MSFT Date: 05/22/2009
Lots of new WCF REST resources available
A new developer center just for WCF REST is now live at MSDN: https://msdn.microsoft.com/wcf/rest....
Author: Nathan Anderson - MSFT Date: 10/30/2008
PDC is coming
Uncloaking after a long absence, here's some of what is new and exciting for the next release of WCF...
Author: Nathan Anderson - MSFT Date: 10/07/2008
WCF Web Programming Help Page
When developing a WCF service using the new web programming features, it's natural to make sure all...
Author: Nathan Anderson - MSFT Date: 09/17/2007
WCF Web Programming or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Uri Templates
Using WCF in web programming scenarios is much simplified in Orcas beta 2 (see...
Author: Nathan Anderson - MSFT Date: 09/13/2007
Getting started with LINQ
Here's a great site with a bunch of samples if you've said to yourself "I'm pretty sure I can do...
Author: Nathan Anderson - MSFT Date: 09/12/2007
Custom SOAP Headers: WCF and ASMX
First the good news, WCF clients should just work with ASMX services that use custom SOAP headers....
Author: Nathan Anderson - MSFT Date: 05/29/2007
Custom SOAP Headers: WCF and Java
First the good news, WCF clients should just work with Java services that use custom SOAP headers....
Author: Nathan Anderson - MSFT Date: 05/29/2007
How do I get a DateTime from a UNIX timestamp?
Often when consuming data from a web site, it will represent time with a UNIX timestamp. This is the...
Author: Nathan Anderson - MSFT Date: 05/13/2007
Coming soon...
I have done much posting in more or less forever, but I have some new stuff on deck. In the...
Author: Nathan Anderson - MSFT Date: 05/13/2007
WCF Interop Community
There's no original content in this post, but here's what people are saying about WCF and ASMX...
Author: Nathan Anderson - MSFT Date: 02/19/2007
.Net Framework 3.0 is live
WCF and the other goodies are available for download here:...
Author: Nathan Anderson - MSFT Date: 11/07/2006
WCF and eBay
eBay provides a very rich, though very complicated, SOAP API. It is possible to use WCF with eBay,...
Author: Nathan Anderson - MSFT Date: 10/12/2006
Useful "knobs" for WCF <-> WSE interop
Let's take the scenario of a WCF client and a WSE service using MTOM either with or without...
Author: Nathan Anderson - MSFT Date: 05/19/2006
WSE Quick Links
If you haven't seen it, Pablo Cibraro has a lot of informative posts about WSE (and WCF). These...
Author: Nathan Anderson - MSFT Date: 02/22/2006
WinFX February CTP available
The February CTP for WinFX is now available for download. Breaking changes are here.
Author: Nathan Anderson - MSFT Date: 02/22/2006
Quick Links
Aaron Skonnard has a new Service Station column all about the new web services features in .NET 2.0...
Author: Nathan Anderson - MSFT Date: 02/01/2006
So you want to move a lot of data
Yasser Shohoud has a great post up about moving large amounts of data with WCF. The solutions are...
Author: Nathan Anderson - MSFT Date: 01/24/2006
SAML STS available for WSE 3.0
The patterns and practices team at Microsoft has just released a SAML STS for WSE 3.0 here:...
Author: Nathan Anderson - MSFT Date: 01/19/2006
WCF and WF "Go Live"
The latest drops of WCF (Indigo) and WF (Windows Workflow Foundation) are now available with a Go...
Author: Nathan Anderson - MSFT Date: 01/18/2006
New WSE 3 security policy article
Tomasz Janczuk, lead developer for WSE, has an article in MSDN Magazine going into detail about WSE...
Author: Nathan Anderson - MSFT Date: 01/11/2006
Changing defaults for WSE's builtin token managers
There's examples of this in the documentation, but I've found it to be a useful and not necessarily...
Author: Nathan Anderson - MSFT Date: 12/29/2005
Custom Policy Assertions in WSE 3 - Part 5
In part 4 I described the implementation of the blind signature assertion in this, in this part I'll...
Author: Nathan Anderson - MSFT Date: 11/23/2005
Custom Policy Assertions in WSE 3 - Part 4
In part 3, I showed how to use WSE's builtin assertions and a new custom assertion to build an...
Author: Nathan Anderson - MSFT Date: 11/23/2005
Custom Policy Assertions in WSE 3 - Part 3
In part 2, I described the major components and started showing how they fit together. In this part...
Author: Nathan Anderson - MSFT Date: 11/22/2005
Custom Policy Assertions in WSE 3 - Part 2
In part 1, I described the requirements of an election system using WSE 3 and a high level overview...
Author: Nathan Anderson - MSFT Date: 11/21/2005
Custom Policy Assertions in WSE 3 - Part 1
One of the major new features in WSE 3.0 is the revamped policy system. This is in the form of...
Author: Nathan Anderson - MSFT Date: 11/21/2005
WSE 3 Security Article
Keith Brown has an interesting article describing the new WSE 3 security model, and little bit of...
Author: Nathan Anderson - MSFT Date: 11/07/2005
WSE 3 released
WSE 3 is ready for download here.
Author: Nathan Anderson - MSFT Date: 11/07/2005
New WSE 3 articles
Here's some of the latest about WSE 3 in the news: Microsoft hails security focus in Web services...
Author: Nathan Anderson - MSFT Date: 11/04/2005
The two levels of MTOMness and other meditations
WSE 3 replaces DIME and WS-Attachments with a new W3C recommendation known as MTOM (Message...
Author: Nathan Anderson - MSFT Date: 09/14/2005
WSE 3 Beta is available
WSE 3 Beta has been released on MSDN here. It requires the VS2005 August CTP. As always, we love to...
Author: Nathan Anderson - MSFT Date: 08/24/2005
Quick links
Here's an interesting Black Hat paper detailing security considerations when deciding to use web...
Author: Nathan Anderson - MSFT Date: 08/10/2005
WSE 3 July CTP is available
The new WSE CTP is here. This runs on the July Whidbey CTP, so you'll need to upgrade from Whidbey...
Author: Nathan Anderson - MSFT Date: 07/21/2005
Where'd my exception go?
Say you have a WebMethod and a SoapMethod that look like this: [WebMethod] public void Void(string...
Author: Nathan Anderson - MSFT Date: 07/12/2005
Introductions
I'm a tester working on the next release of Web Services Enhancements. I'll be making some posts...
Author: Nathan Anderson - MSFT Date: 07/04/2005