Nicholas Allen's Indigo Blog

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...

I buried this in a previous update on changes in .Net 4 but here’s a more prominent description of how service throttles have changed. The ServiceThrottlingBehavior allows you to configure three settings that limit the resource consumption of a service...

The patterns and practices team has released an updated version of their samples for Windows Azure development that cover migrating an existing application to Windows Azure, connecting cloud applications with existing systems, and taking advantage of...

The WCF channels team has posted a short survey on channel development to collect some of your feedback about what to work on after .Net 4 is released. You can help them out if you've previously written or tried to write a layered channel, transport channel...

The new version of Process Explorer that was released this week has some features for exploring managed applications that I hadn't seen before. If you right-click a process that has a CLR loaded and select Properties from the menu, then you'll see two...

If you'd like to try out some of these recent releases without a dedicated machine, there are virtual machines available for use with the developer tool previews. Each virtual machine is configured with the Visual Studio 2010 release candidate and hands...

OData is a protocol for exchanging structured data sets in an interoperable fashion. The .Net implementation of OData is called WCF Data Services but the team has also released a variety of client libraries for other platforms in a package called the...

Together with the Silverlight 4 Release Candidate comes the WCF RIA Services Release Candidate. 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...

At the MIX10 conference last week was the announcement that the Silverlight 4 Release Candidate was now available for download. You'll need Visual Studio 2010 to use the developer tools for Silverlight 4. Silverlight 4 Windows Runtime Silverlight...

As far as I can tell there has never been a description of what the mysterious LegacyExtendedProtectionPolicy property is for that appeared on the HTTP and TCP transports and is now slowly in the process of disappearing. In the small number of places...

I've sufficiently recovered from running the last week-long series covering fixes for WCF to do another one. This week I'll again be covering fixes for WCF that may be hard to find and explaining the details behind each problem. When using the WebScriptEnablingBehavior...

I've sufficiently recovered from running the last week-long series covering fixes for WCF to do another one. This week I'll again be covering fixes for WCF that may be hard to find and explaining the details behind each problem. A primary token provides...

I've sufficiently recovered from running the last week-long series covering fixes for WCF to do another one. This week I'll again be covering fixes for WCF that may be hard to find and explaining the details behind each problem. This is another fix...

I've sufficiently recovered from running the last week-long series covering fixes for WCF to do another one. This week I'll again be covering fixes for WCF that may be hard to find and explaining the details behind each problem. The first fix is a...

Ok, a release of ASP.NET MVC 2 coming soon turned out to mean coming extremely soon. I had been holding off talking about the ASP.NET MVC 1 to ASP.NET MVC 2 migration tool until it was done and that ended up being much closer to the release than I expected...

Eilon Lipton has posted a migration tool for converting ASP.NET MVC 1 application projects to the soon to be released ASP.NET MVC 2. The tool takes in a Visual Studio 2008 project for ASP.NET MVC 1 and spits out a Visual Studio 2008 project for ASP.NET...

Although I didn't include it in the release candidate announcement, the online documentation collection for WCF has also been updated. While you can navigate between the different framework versions for the reference documentation, some people seem to...

Two fixes were published over the last few days to address issues reported with the Visual Studio 2010 release candidate. The first fix resolves a crash that can sometimes occur when hovering over an identifier to bring up a tooltip information display...

The patterns and practices group at Microsoft has released an online guide to claims-based identity and access control. The guide is targeted at developers and architects of web services on Windows that require user-identity information. Windows Identity...