Some History of the Named Pipe, Part 1 (Unix pipes) Some History of the Named Pipe, Part 2 (Unix fifo) Some History of the Named Pipe, Part 3 (Windows named pipe) Some History of the Named Pipe, Part 4 (WCF named pipe) ...

Over on MSDN, Michele Bustamante will be doing a biweekly series called WCF Essentials on best practices and how to use WCF. The first two introductory articles are available now. Getting Started with WCF (an introduction to the WCF Essentials series...

Some History of the Named Pipe, Part 1 (Unix pipes) Some History of the Named Pipe, Part 2 (Unix fifo) Some History of the Named Pipe, Part 3 (Windows named pipe) Some History of the Named Pipe, Part 4 (WCF named pipe) ...

Some History of the Named Pipe, Part 1 (Unix pipes) Some History of the Named Pipe, Part 2 (Unix fifo) Some History of the Named Pipe, Part 3 (Windows named pipe) Some History of the Named Pipe, Part 4 (WCF named pipe) ...

Why are the members of a data contract expected in a particular order in order to be read? The order of members is frequently used to build an expectation of what element might be appearing next. Knowing the possible order of data instead of potentially...

This list is a bit different in places from what you’ve seen in the beta 1 release and there’s always a chance that things might change again. The third part of the list covers some of the new features for service configuration. I haven’t mentioned...

I’ve defined my own XML namespaces for the members of a data contract and now when I generate the client proxies I get some ugly CLR namespaces for the types. How do I fix this? The mapping from an XML or WSDL namespace to a CLR namespace is a mechanical...

The broader Silverlight team is running a one day event here at Microsoft on September 17 to talk about Silverlight 3. It’s possible to sign up either for in-person attendance or for a live meeting presentation. Here’s what’s on the agenda for the...

What would you most like to see at PDC for WCF? New features in WCF for .Net 4 How to use WCF better in applications today Internal details of WCF Using WCF with workflow services Include as much commentary with your selection as you...

Moonlight, an open source implementation of Silverlight for Linux systems, has released their feature complete beta corresponding to Silverlight 2 (and a small bit of Silverlight 3 too). You can get the Moonlight 2 beta as either binaries or source...

This list is a bit different in places from what you’ve seen in the beta 1 release and there’s always a chance that things might change again. The second part of the list covers some of the new features and changes to existing features to improve...

Aaron Skonnard also has a list going on MSDN of new features for WCF in .Net 4 . Our lists are going to look a bit different because I’m covering more, smaller features and Aaron’s list is targeted at beta 1. Some of the topics in the MSDN list though...

Microsoft Research has a Network Monitor 3.3 plugin called TCP Analyzer that helps identify performance problems from a captured TCP session. TCP Analyzer takes a Network Monitor trace and performs visualization and analysis of the TCP connection. The...

As we get closer to the release of .Net 4 it becomes easier to talk about exactly what new features we’re planning to provide. This list is a bit different in places from what you’ve seen in the beta 1 release and there’s always a chance that things might...

A month ago I asked for feedback on whether you’d be interested in occasionally seeing some longer articles with the tradeoff that the articles would come out less frequently. I got about 30 responses, with almost everyone interested in having longer...

Going along with Windows 7, the final version of the Windows API Code Pack was released last week. The code pack is a way to provide access to Windows features that lack a managed interface in the framework today, primarily for things added in Windows...

The final version of the Windows 7 SDK is now available. If you've been using the beta SDK releases for samples or tools, then this is the version of the SDK that you'll want to install. Here are the links to download: Microsoft Windows SDK for...

The 2009 Professional Developers Conference will be held this year from Tuesday November 17th to Thursday November 19th, located again at the Los Angeles convention center. A pre-conference workshop day happens ahead of time on Monday. Workshops are a...

It’s been a year since I last talked about the Managed Services Engine, which is a prebuilt solution for virtualizing web services through metadata inspection and message routing. Since then they’ve released two more CTPs, the most recent one being the...

If you picked up the preview release of MVC 2 earlier, here are some additional samples and resources that you might be interested in. I've got a few things for those already using MVC 1 as well. MVC 2 resources: MVC 2 reference documentation...

The second version of ASP.NET MVC is already underway (it’s on the same type of frequent release schedule as Silverlight). MVC is a model-view-controller framework on top of the existing ASP.NET runtime that separates display and application logic as...