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Jon Flanders and I coauthored an article on BizTalk Services that just went live on the MSDN Magazine web site . We begin the article by discussing ESB's and the trends towards SaaS, and then we describe how BizTalk Services embodies the best of these...
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One of the many new WCF features in Visual Studio 2008 SP1 is a mechanism to control whether the built-in WCF test host application (WcfSvcHost.exe) should automatically launch when debugging other projects in a solution. Prior to this release, there...
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Another new WCF feature that's part of .NET 3.5 SP1 has to do with better support for object references. DataContractSerializer has always supported serializing object references and dealing with graphs, including cycles, and not just simple trees. But...
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One of the new WCF features in .NET 3.5 SP1 is that DataContractSerializer now supports serializing types that aren’t annotated with any serialization attributes like [DataContract] or [Serializable]. If you were using DataContractSerializer prior...
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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...
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WS-MetadataExchange is a wonderful thing. WCF implements this spec and provides support for it over several different transport protocols including HTTP(S), TCP, and named pipes. All you have to do is choose the appropriate MEX binding. If you're familiar...
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One of the cool new features in Visual Studio 2008 is automated debugging for WCF service libraries. Simply create a new WCF Service Library project (using the new WCF project templates), press F5, and voila! When you press F5, Visual Studio launches...
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For those of you who attended my session (WCF Adapters Deep Dive) at the Microsoft SOA/BP Conference last week, here are the demos that I walked through during my talk.
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My latest Service Station column is now online -- it's called WCF Bindings In-Depth . It starts out by reviewing the WCF binding architecture, the various built-in binding classes and how to configure them. Then it shows you how to define custom bindings...
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My latest Service Station column is now online -- it's called WCF Addressing In-Depth . It starts out by reviewing WCF addressing fundamentals and then it quickly dives into IIS addressing considerations, multiple endpoints, unique vs. shared addresses...
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One of the most common questions I get while teaching WCF is "how does WCF stack-up against the existing distributed technology stacks (ASMX, WSE, COM+, .NET Remoting) in terms of performance and throughput?" This whitepaper , written by Saurabh Gupta...
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In my ongoing quest to produce the simplest table possible summarizing the key differences between the various Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) built-in bindings, I came up with the following: Binding Class Name Transport Message Encoding Message...
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My latest Service Station column recently hit the Web on the MSDN Magazine site -- it's called WCF Messaging Fundamentals -- it covers the ins-and-outs of lower-level WCF message processing. It starts by explaining the .NET 3.0 updates to System.Xml that...
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Make sure you check out Kenny's post here . He discusses an issue with the base MessageEncodingBindingElement and provides the boilerplate code that you must write any time you write a subclass. And this issue may not be possible to fix in the next release...
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One of the articles I mentioned here just shipped in the December issue of MSDN Magazine (see the Service Station column) and it's now online for public consumption. Enjoy. I wrote a sequel to this piece that specifically covers the WCF guidance package...
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