Here’s a new video I’m in from App Fabric TV doing a demo of the Express Interop Bindings. The wizard and bindings are available for download here: http://wcf.codeplex.com/releases/view/68276 And all those great interop resources...

Hurry over to http://portal.appfabriclabs.com/ to sign up, space is limited. This release showcases the new container, management and tooling for creating reliable, scalable applications in Windows Azure.  A complete introduction to all of the features...

When configuring web services you have a lot of choices.  You have security algorithms, token types, encodings, reliability and many other settings to worry about.  Now when your clients and services are written using different stacks the challenge...

For the most part setting the encoding (UTF-8, UTF-16, etc.) on a WCF service is pretty simple:  set textEncoding on basicHttpBinding / wsHttpBinding or encoding on a textMessageEncoding in a customBinding .  It works in almost all cases, but...

Recently working with a partner I came across a solution for a limitation in WCF error handling.  The root of the issue is a difference between SOAP 1.1 and SOAP 1.2 in the allowed HTTP status codes when a SOAP fault is returned.  For SOAP 1...

TestApi is a collection of test and utility API's written to make testing WPF, WinForms, .NET, and Win32 applications easy. I made some contributions to last week's release (combinatorial variation generation). Also new is a fault injection engine. Previous...

If you're interested in what XAML can do for you today and what tooling is available, check out XAMLFest . There's a whole series of web seminars on WPF, Silverlight, Blend, and Visual Studio.

There's a whole new XAML stack in the recently released beta 1 (download here ) with a bunch of exciting new features making XAML even more expressive. You can check out Rob's blog and Channel 9 for an overview. I thought I'd discuss some new features...

A new developer center just for WCF REST is now live at MSDN: http://msdn.microsoft.com/wcf/rest . Plus the WCF REST Starter kit with oodles of goodies is available at Codeplex: http://www.codeplex.com/aspnet/Wiki/View.aspx?title=WCF%20REST . There...

Uncloaking after a long absence, here's some of what is new and exciting for the next release of WCF and WF: everything can be done in XAML. http://blogs.windowsclient.net/rob_relyea/archive/2008/09/30/pdc08-xaml-talk.aspx http://channel9.msdn.com...

When developing a WCF service using the new web programming features, it's natural to make sure all the basics are taken care of by entering the service address into a browser. When the service is running correctly, this page is returned: This indicates...

Using WCF in web programming scenarios is much simplified in Orcas beta 2 (see http://hyperthink.net/blog/CategoryView,category,indigo.aspx and scroll down for more discussions). Maybe you want to write an app that searches Flickr, how can you use WCF...

Here's a great site with a bunch of samples if you've said to yourself "I'm pretty sure I can do this with LINQ, but I'm not quite sure how." 101 LINQ Samples

First the good news, WCF clients should just work with ASMX services that use custom SOAP headers. Now the not so good news, ASMX clients will work with WCF services that use headers, but the object model is pretty funky. Say you want to do something...

First the good news, WCF clients should just work with Java services that use custom SOAP headers. Now the not so good news, Java proxies generated from the default WCF WSDL won't include the SOAP headers in the object model. The root problem is most...

Often when consuming data from a web site, it will represent time with a UNIX timestamp. This is the number of seconds since January 1, 1970. It would be nice to turn this into a System.DateTime, but how? DateTime FromUnixTime( Int64 unixTime) ...

I have done much posting in more or less forever, but I have some new stuff on deck. In the meantime, check out the recent posts at Steve Maine's blog for some of the stuff I've been working on.

There's no original content in this post, but here's what people are saying about WCF and ASMX interoperability in the Microsoft forums and other blogs over the last month or so: ASMX WCF method returning a strongly typed collection to a .NET 2...

WCF and the other goodies are available for download here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=10CC340B-F857-4A14-83F5-25634C3BF043&displaylang=en

eBay provides a very rich, though very complicated, SOAP API . It is possible to use WCF with eBay, but it takes a few tricks. First read this article. I'll wait. Ok, since that didn't scare you away I'll continue. Everything there is still necessary...

Let's take the scenario of a WCF client and a WSE service using MTOM either with or without security, here's some of the settings that help make this possible. I'm going to focus mostly on code, but almost all or all of these are available via config...

If you haven't seen it, Pablo Cibraro has a lot of informative posts about WSE (and WCF). These include implementations of WS-Federation and WS-Polling among a great number of others, just keep scrolling. Julie Lerman points out the number #1 cause...

The February CTP for WinFX is now available for download. Breaking changes are here .

Aaron Skonnard has a new Service Station column all about the new web services features in .NET 2.0 (ASMX 2.0 and WSE 3.0) and how they fit with the impending release of WCF. Kirk Evans has a great post about using WSE 3.0's policy framework to get...

Yasser Shohoud has a great post up about moving large amounts of data with WCF. The solutions are WCF-specific but the discussion of the problems (bandwidth utilization, memory utilization, and error recovery) is general to any system using web services...