Monday, May 12, 2008 - Posts

• WCF features/improvements in .NET 3.5 SP1 & VS 2008 SP1

  Scott Guthrie announced the availability of .NET 3.5 SP1 and Visual Studio 2008 SP1 today. If you read his entry , you'll see this release is packed with new features, many of which revolve around the Ajax, MVC, and ADO.NET improvements they've been working on. However, this release also contains some new WCF nuggets including the following: New Hosting Wizard for WCF Service projects. Enhancements in Test Client such as support for RM Sessions, Message Contract and Nullable types enables testing of broader set of WCF-based services. Expanding reach of DataContract Serializer by relaxing the need of having [DataContract]/ [DataMember] on types and by supporting an interoperable mechanism for dealing with object references. Improved Partial Trust Debugging Experience with support for Event Log. Support for ADO.NET Entity Framework entities in WCF contracts. Improvements in writing REST based services ranging from easily supporting ServiceDocuments publication and consumption to providing greater control and usability of UriTemplate. Significant performance improvements on large workflow-based projects in Visual Studio. Considerable scalability increases for hosted WCF services in IIS7-integrated mode. Update: Steve Maine provides more WCF details in this post and Omri gives his take over here . You can read more about this release and grab the bits from here . Read More... Posted Monday, May 12, 2008 5:00 PM from Service Station, by Aaron Skonnard | 0 Comments Filed under: Indigo

• WCF-related features in .NET 3.5 SP1 & VS 2008 SP1

  Update : Steve and Omri have the official voices :) In addition what Scott has in its extensive article on SP1 , lemme show you some more data on what is new and supported for WCF in SP1 of .NET 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008 - this list is not authoritative, it is my list and not Microsoft's official one. DataContractSerializer can now serialize types without the need to annotate them with [DataContract] & DataContract -related attributes, aka POCO support Better support for object references in DataContractSerializer Support for interoperable object references in DataContractSerializer Support for fault detail serialization by XmlSerializer Event Logging is now enabled in partial trust Syndication object model supports the ServiceDocument in Atom Publishing Protocol (APP) URI templates & URI template table extended to better support ASP.NET MVC Hosting Wizard for Visual Studio WCF Service projects in IIS Expanded support in WCF Test Client Support for RM Sessions Support MessageContract + XmlSerializer Support Nullable<T> types Support to run stand-alone WCF Service Application template enabled in Visual Web Developer Express Read More... Posted Monday, May 12, 2008 3:24 PM from Christian Weyer: Smells like service spirit | 0 Comments

• WCF features/improvements in .NET 3.5 SP1 & VS 2008 SP1

  Scott Guthrie announced the availability of .NET 3.5 SP1 and Visual Studio 2008 SP1 today. If you read his entry , you'll see this release is packed with new features, many of which revolve around the Ajax, MVC, and ADO.NET improvements they've been working on. However, this release also contains some new WCF nuggets including the following: New Hosting Wizard for WCF Service projects. Enhancements in Test Client such as support for RM Sessions, Message Contract and Nullable<T> types enables testing of broader set of WCF-based services. Expanding reach of DataContract Serializer by relaxing the need of having [DataContract]/ [DataMember] on types and by supporting an interoperable mechanism for dealing with object references. Improved Partial Trust Debugging Experience with support for Event Log. Support for ADO.NET Entity Framework entities in WCF contracts. Improvements in writing REST based services ranging from easily supporting ServiceDocuments publication and consumption to providing greater control and usability of UriTemplate. Significant performance improvements on large workflow-based projects in Visual Studio. Considerable scalability increases for hosted WCF services in IIS7-integrated mode. You can read more about this release and grab the bits from here . Read More... Posted Monday, May 12, 2008 11:00 AM from Service Station, by Aaron Skonnard | 0 Comments