Windows Server AppFabric provides management, monitoring, and other component services for WCF services using .Net 4. The beta 2 release of AppFabric came out a few weeks ago using the release candidate of .Net 4. Now that the final version of .Net 4...

The configuration of an IIS site includes the ability to associate a host name with a particular site definition. For HTTP traffic this allows multiple web sites to be hosted at the same IP address and port, with the true domain name of the site mapped...

After adding a custom binding element to configuration as a binding element extension, Visual Studio reports any use of the binding element in app.config as a schema violation. Is something wrong with the binding element? No, as long as the binding...

Two frequently used network diagnostic tools have gotten beta updates this week. Network Monitor is an adapter level capture program that can record and analyze protocol traces. If you join the Connect beta program for Network Monitor 3 you can get...

When using DataContractSerializer with a data member that has IsRequired set to false, the generated schema has minOccurs of 0. However, when using XmlSerializer with an XML element that has IsNullable set to true, the schema has minOccurs of 1. Instead...

When generating metadata to describe a service, an address is published for the location at which the service can be reached. This is the address to which a client of the service should address a message. Ordinarily, the metadata address is obtained...

The Silverlight 4 business application training course is a set of videos and labs divided into eight modules for learning about building business applications with Silverlight. The primary focus of the training course is to learn about the new features...

Moonlight, the Linux version of Silverlight, has produced its sixth preview release of Moonlight 3. I don’t announce every release that they do because the team has a very short development cycle; the last announcement I did was for the first preview...

Late last week a second release candidate for WCF RIA Services was released. RIA Services are an application design pattern that lives between ASP.NET and Silverlight in a multi-tier architecture. Inside RIA Services you can host application logic for...

Moving to Visual Studio 2010 is a developer guide for learning about the new features of Visual Studio 2010. The final version is planned to come out in a few months. The content so far is as much about the libraries released at the same time as Visual...

Ten talks of interest for web service developers from the recent TechDays 2010 and DevDays 2010 conferences. I've pulled out the videos on WCF, WCF service development, and web service development with Silverlight that you might be interested in. What...

The Service Bus and Access Control online services through Windows Azure AppFabric have now moved from being a trial service to a fully supported service. The service bus is an infrastructure piece for connecting together different components in a distributed...

The WCF 4 sample collection is now available as a direct download independent from the framework or SDK release. The collection includes over 200 WCF samples from both .Net 4 and past releases. These samples go along with online sample guides available...

The Silverlight 4 launch event at the DevConnections conference will be taking place today. Starting off later this morning at 8 AM is the keynote address by Scott Guthrie. A link to stream the keynote presentation isn’t available yet but will be on the...

The release events for Visual Studio 2010 and .Net 4 started this morning and will continue throughout the day with conference presentations at multiple sites. If you want to join in, there’s a web cast of the keynote presentations from the Las Vegas...

How do I examine the settings for the endpoint that the message for the current operation was delivered to? There are two sources of settings depending on whether you’re interested in the endpoint runtime settings or the endpoint description. The...

Shortly after Visual Studio 2010 ships the Windows 7 SDK will be updated to include the development tools, samples, and resources for .Net 4. The current version of the SDK is for Windows 7 and .Net 3.5 SP1. The native portion of the SDK will have a small...

Dominick Baier has put up the completed StarterSTS sample that demonstrates how to write, configure, and use a realistic security token service. The token service is built using Windows Identity Foundation and provides authentication based on the ASP...

I came across an interesting tool the other day that can be used to debug and diagnose configuration problems with Kerberos. DelegConfig is an ASP.NET application that you install to generate a troubleshooting report about your IIS configuration, Kerberos...

How do I write a contract type that has a generic parameter in a service configuration file? A contract reference is part of the template for defining a service endpoint through configuration: < endpoint address =”...” binding =”...” contract...

I’m trying to use an HTTP method that has defined a private protocol for status code. What can I do if the HttpStatusCode class doesn’t have the necessary value? The HttpStatusCode enumeration contains predefined constants for the status codes described...

The ServiceHost class is the primary host for running services programmed using the WCF service programming model. Some of the features exposed by ServiceHost include configuration, service description, and endpoint management to control how the service...