I don't think that 'support' should block anyone from using the extensions to adopt WCF, as any projects created using the extensions will continue to work with Orcas. The only difference is that Service references created using the extensions will be...

If you generate a WCF VB proxy that contains a DataContract type using svcutil.exe , calling a method that returns the type will always incorrectly return an uninitialized type. This works correctly for C#. John Stallo, a peer of mine, spent some time...

The issue with the MapPoint service is that it uses digest authentication, but the WSDL itself does not contain any policy stating this. Therefore, when you generate proxy class and config to consume the Service, it will fail until you add the appropriate...

One of the demos a peer of mine gave (Johnathan) included creating a .NET form with a Web reference that, using the interop toolkit (just released), could be called from a VB6 app. This is a great scenario because it enables those with a VB6 legacy code...

As my new role in the VB team, I've been tasked to look at WCF Data bindings and determine our story for Orcas and beyond from a tooling standpoint. As a part of the VB team, we are particularly interested in enabling the N-Teir RAD data story in the...

My time at VSTS - Arch has been very important to me. I have learnt a lot shipping VS2005 and working on Orcas planning. I have had the opportunity to work with great people and made great friends. I have also been really impressed with the leadership...

Kitty interned last summer and this paper was a result of a lot of hard work that he put in: http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnvs05/html/DeployDSD.asp Cheers, Ali

Jack Greenfield sent an email around that described the architect from the perspective of the patterns an architect uses: The basic working methods of the architects are covered by a limited set of very generic patterns: - Viewpoint hopping, looking...

I still remember conversations over lunch about how Pedro did not want to be a dev lead/manager, having done it before. How his real passion was development. Therefore, I was taken a back when I saw the announcement so I ran over to Pedro's office to...

One of the limitations of our designers is that it does not support encrypted appSettings entries. After talking to customers, however, we have realized that this it is not a common scenario to encrypt the config sections during design and that it is...

and hurting... Doing a 720 down the mountain has a completely different connotation for me. Ali

As I read Zillow's web page, which is one of the most hyped startups in Seattle , I came across the About my house... page for each of the executives. I thought it was a great idea so, in true form, I ripped it off and came up with my own version for...

It was sooo hard to find this link and I knew what I was looking for, so I thought I'd post it here for the benefit of others. The 'official' data contract/service versioning story is here: http://windowssdk.msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url...

Why I Hate Frameworks: http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?joel.3.219431.12 Internally, I feel that these are the kind of discussions that we have every day. If, for example, we talk about adding a tool window, we usually also start talking...

Senior members in our team have suggested that PM team should start using the DSL tools to prototype some of the new architecture models/designers that are being proposed. Consequently, I've been laboring away on my DSLs for the last few days and Pedro...

Jurgen's posted a great real world example of why WCF extensibility is essential for interop. The scenario he describes is that of having to a connect a TANDEM system written in COBOL to a Windows client using WCF. Which is an example of why you would...

There are a few books that you have to had read to have an intelligent conversation with Bill Gibson, Jack Greenfield, and David Trowbridge, aside from Jack and Keith's Software Factories book. While these change from month to month, for the topic...

Since David Trowbridge joined, we have been having morning SCRUM-like meetings to keep in synch with each other. I've attached a pic of the guys (Mark, Suhail, and Dmitriy)at the one that took place in my office. Ali

I haven't thought about the relationship between “Actions” and "Operations" for quite a while. Therefore, I thought I'd give my brain dump. I look forward to your feedback in case I have it wrong. First, I thought it useful to summarize the description...

I was going through the FebCTP changes for WCF from JanCTP and saw the following change: Remove MessageContractAttribute.Action (and Rely Upon OperationContractAttribute.Action / OperationContractAttribute.ReplyAction) WCF was overriding the...

Pedro was kind enough inform me about this cool DSL called "Contract-first" DSL: http://www.edwardbakker.nl/PermaLink,guid,0f4e80f7-2ebd-4ab4-a8b4-954cadfc622b.aspx I recommend that you take a look. I am eagerly waiting to play with this once is made...

Dmitriy Vayasura released an add-in with a whole bunch of Class Designer/Distributed System Designer power tools last year on GotDotNet: http://www.gotdotnet.com/workspaces/workspace.aspx?id=fe72608b-2b28-4cc1-9866-ea6f805f45f3 I'm wondering if anyone...

There a lot of customers, for better or worse, who are using DataSets in their services and (I shudder as I say this) there are times when it might make sense to do so. An example might be when the developer has control of both the client and the service...

I just discovered a cool workflow for how to use the Distributed System Designer. http://dotnet.org.za/photos/willy/images/50063/original.aspx Cheers, Ali

Mark just posted a blog about top-down design here: http://spaces.msn.com/mgroves/blog/cns!43AFE059FDA652E!1179.entry This is so typical of Microsoft. Mark came in and said, "Show me the value!" and after throwing various TechNotes/Documentation at...