WCF Community Bloggers

Screencast: Hosting WCF services in ASP.NET/IIS

2008-08-28T17:06:42Z

This week's screencast covers how to host your WCF Service in ASP.NET/IIS. We'll start with the simple WCF service that I created in the first screencast , and then I'll show you how to expose the service using an svc file within an ASP.NET Web site. Next, we'll walk through the process of adding endpoints to the site's web.config file (for further details on configuring endpoints see this screencast). Then I'll show you how to test it using the ASP.NET Development Web Server...(read more)

New and Notable 270

2008-08-28T14:51:12Z

Agile/Software Development/ALT.NET The Art of Agile Development: Collective Code Ownership Raymond provides an entry into lean methodologies Jeffery was on the Software Quality Isn't Optional panel and the video is available The StyleCop team announced the release of a version 4.3 of the StyleCop tool . You can get it from here . Another e-book called Data Structures and Algorithms by Granville Barnett and Luca Del Tongo and is hosted on DotNetSlackers . The book is a free PDF download....(read more)

CSLA .NET on DNR TV

2008-08-27T13:03:12Z

The second part of the DNR TV show covering CSLA .NET 3.5.1 is now online. Here are links to both parts: Part 1 Part 2 As always, you can download CSLA .NET from here . Read More......(read more)

Can Microsoft + Seinfeld outdo Apple's marketing?

2008-08-22T15:54:20Z

Mary Jo Foley reported about this yesterday and now it's all over the news . Microsoft is gearing up to launch a $300M advertising campaign to combat the negative ads launched against them in recent years, and to rebuild the company's fading image. Since the "Get a Mac" ad campaign first started, and proved sooo effective, I've been dumbfounded by the fact that Microsoft has just sat back and taken it, one hit at a time. I even started to wonder if Microsoft would ever launch...(read more)

Thanks Lutz Roeder!

2008-08-22T14:53:31Z

Lutz Roeder , creator of the ever-so-popular .NET Reflector , sent out the following email today announcing a big change for his tool: After more than eight years of working on .NET Reflector, I have decided it is time to move on and explore some new opportunities. I have reached an agreement to have Red Gate Software continue the development of .NET Reflector. Red Gate has a lot of experience creating development tools for both .NET and SQL Server. They have the resources necessary to work on new...(read more)

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2008-08-22T02:29:00Z

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2008-08-22T02:20:12Z

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Screencast: Configuring WCF Services with Endpoints

2008-08-21T18:28:54Z

As Cliff mentioned , the second installment in the WCF/WF Developer Screencast Series just went live. This one is called Configuring WCF Services with Endpoints . In this screencast, I build on the service I showed you how to create last week and show you to configure it with different endpoints -- you'll learn about addresses, bindings, and contracts -- and you'll see how to use the WCF Service Configuration Editor to create/modify different endpoint configurations. WCF/WF Developer Screencast...(read more)

CSLA into the future

2008-08-20T21:15:50Z

I've been thinking a lot about the future of CSLA and of .NET, and I'd like thoughtful input. The .NET platform is, for lack of a better word, fragmenting. We have .NET, the .NET client-only framework, .NET Compact Framework, Silverlight and probably others. All of these are ".NET", but they are all different. CSLA will soon support .NET and Silverlight. It sort of supports the Client-Only Framework now, but it was just pointed out to me that while it works, there are compiler warnings in this scenario....(read more)

Pluralsight's WCF/WF Developer Screencast Series

2008-08-19T23:44:52Z

Pluralsight has joined forces with the WCF/WF teams at Microsoft to deliver a series of short videos that illustrate how to get started using WCF/WF in your applications. The videos will be hosted on Channel9 within the Screencasts section , and they'll be highlighted on The .NET Endpoint Team Blog and the MSDN Dev Centers for WCF & WF . These videos provide 100-200 level content intended for folks new to the technology or those looking for quick tutorials on how to perform common tasks within...(read more)

Programming the MetaWeblog API in .NET/C#

2008-08-19T23:09:10Z

Most modern blogging engines support the MetaWeblog API, which was defined by XML-RPC.com many years ago. It's become one of the most popular API's for programmatically interacting with blogs because of its simplicity. Even Microsoft's Windows Live Spaces provides support for it . I wanted to use this API recently to interact with our Community Server implementation so I started searching around for client-side implementations that would be easy to program in C#. I was surprised that...(read more)

Fall 2008 community events

2008-08-19T19:43:30Z

Magenic a couple fall community events they are involved in organizing and/or sponsoring. In Chicago there's the Codeapalooza event coming up on September 6. This is sponsored by Magenic and will have speakers from the whole community. It sounds like Justin Chase will be speaking at the event, talking about UnitDriven and the unit testing issues we've been facing while building CSLA Light (Justin is on the CSLA Light dev team). Then in Minneapolis there's the 5th Twin Cities Code Camp on October...(read more)

CSLA .NET ObjectFactory attribute

2008-08-15T20:16:41Z

One of the features we added in CSLA Light was the idea of a "factory" or "observer" object - kind of like a police sobriety checkpoint - that can be called when any data portal request comes in from the client. This is a server-side object that can examine or manipulate the business object or criteria object sent from the client, before any other server-side processing is allowed. I liked the idea so much that I decided to put it into the CSLA .NET 3.6 data portal too. Which turned out to be much...(read more)

New and Notable 265

2008-08-15T14:15:53Z

A quick one while I am on vacation. .NET 3.5 SP1 Mr. Hanselman has come out with the mother of all .NET 3.5 SP1 posts with Hidden Gems - Not the same old 3.5 SP1 post , which includes coverage of all the areas including my WCF changes . Announcing Entity Framework & ADO.NET Data Services RTM! Orcas SP1 Improvement: Asynchronous WCF HTTP Module/Handler for IIS7 for Better Server Scalability WCF Request Throttling and Server Scalability IronRuby/Ruby Part 7 of Justin's outstanding Learning...(read more)

Screencast - Creating your First WCF Service

2008-08-14T00:12:00Z

As Cliff announces , CSD is partnering up with my friends Aaron and the PluralSight folks on a new weekly .NET developer screencast series to show how to accomplish tasks in WF/WCF 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008. This week, for the inaugural screencast, CSD MVP Aaron Skonnard walks you through how to create your first WCF Service . The screencast guides the viewer through creating the service from scratch in VS2008 - defining a data contract, a service contract, and testing/hosting the service in VS2008....(read more)