Nicholas Allen's Indigo Blog

Here's another look at defining what it means to have a URI for the TCP or named pipe transports. You can compare these definitions to the version I gave yesterday using the parser syntax flags. I'll only cover the net.tcp URI scheme as the two are almost...

The System.Uri class has built-in parsing rules for a variety of schemes, including http, https, file, ftp, gopher, mailto, news, nntp, telnet, and ldap. There are also parsers for the WCF net.tcp and net.pipe schemes. These parsing rules allow a uri...

The System.Net team has put together a list of frequently asked questions for the System.Uri class that they're responsible for. The Uri is one of the few types that we use quite extensively in the programming model for WCF but don't implement ourselves...

TechEd this year runs from June 7th to June 10th in New Orleans, LA. As previously announced the early registration discount is scheduled to run out at the end of this month. You should register now if you're interested in getting it. Now that more...

Here's the post that was supposed to appear last Friday. The Managed Extensibility Framework makes it easier to create and reuse extensible applications by providing a standardized model for discovering and composing application plugins. This allows...

Today’s post has gone missing but if you’d like something to fill your time, why not take Brad Abrams’s 1 question survey on the types of service application work that you do. I didn’t say it would fill a lot of time. Here are the three options (or...

After being a highly-requested feature, back in .Net 3.5 we added the ability to see the network address from which the client request had arrived. Here's how it works. Participating transports capture the client's network address using whatever sources...

A fix was published over the weekend for a crashing issue found in the release candidate. The issue affected Intellisense when using a tablet, screen reader, or other input modifier. This was a regression that wasn't present in the previous beta release...

I saw that a new version of Reflector came out the other day along with a new Reflector Pro add-in for Visual Studio that allows you to use the generated source for debugging. Being able to debug against a decompiled source file was the feature I asked...

Following the Visual Studio 2010 and .Net 4 release candidates last week, the Visual Studio training kit got a February update to cover the new content. Training kits are a collection of presentations, hands on labs, and demos related to the new features...

The folks at .Net Rocks have posted a few recent interviews with some of the people on the WCF and AppFabric teams talking about the upcoming releases. These are casual conversations, each about an hour long, covering a variety of topics with the day...

Here's a bonus entry left from last week. Last week I ran a series covering fixes for WCF that may be hard to find and explaining the details behind each problem. Contract code generation takes a system-independent description of the types used for...

The latest Windows Azure tools and SDK release actually came out two weeks ago but requires either Visual Studio 2008 or Visual Studio 2010 RC, which you couldn't get until today. This SDK release also marked the commercial launch of Windows Azure. Some...

Yesterday the release candidate for Visual Studio 2010 and .Net 4 was released to MSDN subscribers. By tomorrow the release should be broadly available to anyone that wants to download it. When trying out the release candidate you should first uninstall...

The ASP.NET MVC team has released a potentially final release candidate for ASP.NET MVC 2. MVC is a model-view-controller framework on top of the existing ASP.NET runtime that separates display and application logic as well as makes test-driven development...

Moonlight, the Linux version of Silverlight, has produced its first preview release of Moonlight 3. You may recall that in the recent Moonlight 2 release they shipped both their equivalent of Silverlight 2 as well as a number of features from Silverlight...

This week I'll be running a series covering fixes for WCF that may be hard to find and explaining the details behind each problem. Encoding is the process of transforming a set of characters into a sequence of bytes. An encoder fallback is an error...

This week I'll be running a series covering fixes for WCF that may be hard to find and explaining the details behind each problem. Connection sharing is a performance optimization to pool HTTP connections between multiple calls. Ordinarily, connections...

This week I'll be running a series covering fixes for WCF that may be hard to find and explaining the details behind each problem. This next fix is actually to add a new feature when writing a UserNamePasswordValidator. A UserNamePasswordValidator...

This week I'll be running a series covering fixes for WCF that may be hard to find and explaining the details behind each problem. The dispatch operation formatter is the component that deserializes a message into objects. When building the objects...