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    <title>At Your Service</title>
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      <title>Nice sample of WCF client using RESTful Twitter API</title>
      <link>https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/steveres/nice-sample-of-wcf-client-using-restful-twitter-api</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 12:56:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Check out Kirk Allen Evans posting about how to create a Twitter client using its RESTful API and...]]></description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Check out <A class="" href="https://blogs.msdn.com/kaevans/archive/2008/07/26/creating-a-rest-twitter-client-with-wcf.aspx" mce_href="https://blogs.msdn.com/kaevans/archive/2008/07/26/creating-a-rest-twitter-client-with-wcf.aspx">Kirk Allen Evans posting</A> about how to create a Twitter client using its RESTful API and WCF.&nbsp; I'm a sucker for simplicity and this hits the spot.]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Windows Live Messenger Facebook Application</title>
      <link>https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/steveres/windows-live-messenger-facebook-application</link>
      <pubDate>Sat, 03 May 2008 09:53:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Here's a very cool app on Facebook that leverages the Windows Live APIs to tie the two populations...]]></description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Here's a <A class="" href="https://apps.facebook.com/windowslivemessenger/" mce_href="https://apps.facebook.com/windowslivemessenger/">very cool app on Facebook</A> that leverages the <A class="" title="Windows Live APIs" href="https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa905675.aspx" mce_href="https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa905675.aspx">Windows Live APIs</A> to tie the two populations together.&nbsp; You probably already have an ID in both, so this links the two. Wonder when someone will do the same for Linked In?]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Silverlight 2.0 and WCF sample</title>
      <link>https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/steveres/silverlight-2-0-and-wcf-sample</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:53:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Want to create a nice Silverlight 2.0 app using WCF services for data?&nbsp; Check out Bob...]]></description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Want to create a nice Silverlight 2.0 app using WCF services for data?&nbsp; Check out <A class="" href="https://blogs.msdn.com/bobfamiliar/archive/2008/04/04/rich-internet-applications-using-silverlight-2-0.aspx" mce_href="https://blogs.msdn.com/bobfamiliar/archive/2008/04/04/rich-internet-applications-using-silverlight-2-0.aspx">Bob Familiar's post</A> for code and links to great resources.]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Source Code for Essential WCF</title>
      <link>https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/steveres/source-code-for-essential-wcf</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:10:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Many people have asked us for the source code used in Essential WCF.&nbsp; We've cleansed it,...]]></description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Many people have asked us for the source code used in <A class="" title="Essential WCF on Amazon" href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0321440064/" target=_blank mce_href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0321440064/">Essential WCF</A>.&nbsp; We've cleansed it, re-tested (again!) and published it to our page on <A class="" title="Download from InformIT" href="https://www.informit.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=9780321440068" target=_blank mce_href="https://www.informit.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=9780321440068">InformIT</A>&nbsp;under the downloads tab. Feel free to use and experiment as you learn this way-cool technology.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Job Posting: Web Engineer for Emergent Music</title>
      <link>https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/steveres/job-posting-web-engineer-for-emergent-music</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 09:48:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[steveres]]></dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[A good friend a mine, Barry Kurland, just joined Goombah, a company that connects people to their...]]></description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[A good friend a mine, Barry Kurland, just joined <A class="" href="https://www.goombah.com/" mce_href="https://www.goombah.com/">Goombah</A>, a company that connects people to their music and like-minded people.&nbsp; They have big plans and are looking to hire a top-notch web engineer. Job description attached; let me know if you're interested.
<p><a href="https://msdnshared.blob.core.windows.net/media/MSDNBlogsFS/prod.evol.blogs.msdn.com/CommunityServer.Components.PostAttachments/00/07/90/50/44/Goombah.htm" original-url="https://blogs.msdn.com/cfs-file.ashx/__key/communityserver-components-postattachments/00-07-90-50-44/Goombah.htm">Goombah.htm</a></p>]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>What's in Essential WCF?</title>
      <link>https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/steveres/whats-in-essential-wcf</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2008 10:31:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Now that Essential WCF is out, we're seeing interest from many places.&nbsp; Rich, Chris and I were...]]></description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Now that <A class="" href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0321440064/" mce_href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0321440064/">Essential WCF</A> is out, we're seeing interest from many places.&nbsp; Rich, Chris and I were contacted by InformIT to do <A class="" href="https://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1179336" mce_href="https://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1179336">an interview</A> and talk about the book.&nbsp; <SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">Separately</SPAN>, I'm hearing from readers looking to do big and small things with the technology.&nbsp; And here in Boston this week, we have a sold out <A class="" href="https://www.pluralsight.com/courses/DoubleFeatureWCFWF.aspx" mce_href="https://www.pluralsight.com/courses/DoubleFeatureWCFWF.aspx">Pluralsight course</A> that covers WCF and WF.&nbsp; Good fun!]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Web Service Registry codebase</title>
      <link>https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/steveres/web-service-registry-codebase</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 11:11:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Deploying a SOA requires a good registry for services, if not supporting repository.&nbsp; Microsoft...]]></description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<P>Deploying a SOA requires a good registry for services, if not supporting repository.&nbsp; Microsoft has <A class="" title=Oslo href="https://www.microsoft.com/soa/products/oslo.aspx" mce_href="https://www.microsoft.com/soa/products/oslo.aspx">big plans</A> for both and other vendors, like <A class="" href="https://www.soa.com/" mce_href="https://www.soa.com/">SOA Software</A> and <A class="" href="https://www.amberpoint.com/" mce_href="https://www.amberpoint.com/">AmberPoint</A>,&nbsp;have products in the market today. If you're game for building your own, there are two interesting approaches.&nbsp; First is a kit built by some Microsoft consultants, called <A class="" href="https://www.codeplex.com/servicesengine" mce_href="https://www.codeplex.com/servicesengine">Managed Service Ending</A>,&nbsp;that you can download from Codeplex.&nbsp; Second is a <A class="" href="https://www.infoq.com/articles/net-service-registry" mce_href="https://www.infoq.com/articles/net-service-registry">nice article</A> by Boris Lublinsky that describes a relatively thin layer over a relational model, with both design time and runtime components.</P>]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Using SyndicationFeed to display photos from spaces.live.com</title>
      <link>https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/steveres/using-syndicationfeed-to-display-photos-from-spaces-live-com</link>
      <pubDate>Sun, 20 Jan 2008 14:21:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[The SyndicationFeed class from System.ServiceModel.Syndicatation makes it easy to work with feeds...]]></description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<P><FONT size=2>The SyndicationFeed class from System.ServiceModel.Syndicatation makes it easy to work with feeds and extensions. The code below uses an RSS feed from space.live.com to show photo albums on a page.&nbsp; Of course there are many ways to consume RSS with and w/o code, but the WCF enhancements with .NET 3.5 are a nice new trick. You can see the result at <A href="https://www.steveres.com/SpacesPics.aspx" mce_href="https://www.steveres.com/SpacesPics.aspx">https://www.steveres.com/SpacesPics.aspx</A></FONT></P>
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<P><FONT size=2>r = XmlReader.Create(</FONT><FONT color=#a31515 size=2>"https://yournamegoeshere.spaces.live.com/photos/feed.rss"</FONT><FONT size=2>);<BR>albums = SyndicationFeed.Load(r);<BR>r.Close();<BR></FONT><FONT color=#0000ff size=2>foreach</FONT><FONT size=2> (SyndicationItem album </FONT><FONT color=#0000ff size=2>in</FONT><FONT size=2> albums.Items)<BR>{</FONT> </P>
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<P><FONT color=#008000 size=2>// album.links[0].URI points to this album page on spaces.live.com<BR></FONT><FONT size=2></FONT><FONT color=#008000 size=2>// album.Summary (not shown) is an HTML block with thumbnails of the album pics<BR></FONT><FONT size=2>cell.Text= </FONT><FONT color=#0000ff size=2>string</FONT><FONT size=2>.Format(</FONT><FONT color=#a31515 size=2>"&lt;a href='{0}'&gt;{1}&lt;/a&gt;"</FONT><FONT size=2>, album.Links[0].Uri, album.Title.Text);<BR>albumRSS = GetAlbumRSS(album);<BR>r = XmlReader.Create(albumRSS);<BR>photos = SyndicationFeed.Load(r);<BR>r.Close();<BR></FONT><FONT color=#0000ff size=2>foreach</FONT><FONT size=2> (SyndicationItem photo </FONT><FONT color=#0000ff size=2>in</FONT><FONT size=2> photos.Items)<BR>{<BR></FONT><FONT color=#008000 size=2>// photo.Summary is an HTML block with a thumbnail of the pic<BR></FONT><FONT size=2>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; cell.Text = </FONT><FONT color=#0000ff size=2>string</FONT><FONT size=2>.Format(</FONT><FONT color=#a31515 size=2>"{0}"</FONT><FONT size=2>, photo.Summary.Text);<BR>}</FONT></P></BLOCKQUOTE>
<P><FONT size=2>}<BR></FONT><FONT color=#008000 size=2>//<BR></FONT><FONT size=2></FONT><FONT color=#008000 size=2>// helper to extract the feed to one album from the albums feed<BR></FONT><FONT size=2></FONT><FONT color=#008000 size=2>//<BR></FONT><FONT size=2></FONT><FONT color=#0000ff size=2>private</FONT><FONT size=2> </FONT><FONT color=#0000ff size=2>string</FONT><FONT size=2> GetAlbumRSS(SyndicationItem album)<BR>{</FONT></P>
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<P><FONT color=#0000ff size=2>string</FONT><FONT size=2> url = </FONT><FONT color=#a31515 size=2>""</FONT><FONT size=2>;<BR></FONT><FONT color=#0000ff size=2>foreach</FONT><FONT size=2> (SyndicationElementExtension ext </FONT><FONT color=#0000ff size=2>in</FONT><FONT size=2> album.ElementExtensions)<BR></FONT><FONT color=#0000ff size=2>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; if</FONT><FONT size=2> (ext.OuterName == </FONT><FONT color=#a31515 size=2>"itemRSS"</FONT><FONT size=2>) url = ext.GetObject&lt;</FONT><FONT color=#0000ff size=2>string</FONT><FONT size=2>&gt;();<BR></FONT><FONT color=#0000ff size=2>return</FONT><FONT size=2> (url);</FONT></P></BLOCKQUOTE>
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      <title>Consumer Web API is easy!</title>
      <link>https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/steveres/consumer-web-api-is-easy</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2008 11:14:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[I’ve been experimenting with the consumer Web API (Amazon, flickr, Google, facebook, Virtual Earth)...]]></description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[I’ve been experimenting with the consumer Web API (Amazon, flickr, Google, facebook, Virtual Earth) and WOW is it easy!&nbsp; Takes just a few hours to learn an API, register for dev keys and start building apps.&nbsp; Samples at <A class="" title=www.steveres.com href="https://www.steveres.com/" mce_href="https://www.steveres.com">steveres.com</A>.&nbsp; Funny how easy things can be when you remove enterprise class requirements like SSO, secure messaging and SLAs.]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Looking for an amazing job at Microsoft?</title>
      <link>https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/steveres/looking-for-an-amazing-job-at-microsoft</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2007 17:22:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Microsoft Technology Centers are hiring in the US! We have immediate openings for talented .NET...]]></description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<P>The <A class="" title="Microsoft Technology Center" href="https://www.microsoft.com/mtc" target=_blank mce_href="https://www.microsoft.com/mtc">Microsoft Technology Centers</A> are hiring in the US! We have immediate openings for talented .NET Architects in NYC and Irvine, CA. We also have an opening for a SQL/BI expert in Atlanta GA. The pace is fast and the work is demanding, but we get to design and prove the biggest, baddest apps around. Interested? Drop me a note - steveres at Microsoft.</P>]]></content:encoded>
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