Do you happen to see any of the following errors when you upgrade your machine to .Net 45? System.Configuration.ConfigurationErrorsException: An extension of name ' udpTransport ' already appears in extension collection. Extension names must be unique...

While working with Azure Service Bus, either with the queue or with the topic/subscription, you need to explicitly write code to pull messages from the queue or from the subscription. A typical pattern looks like the following: Code Snippet // Create...

Alright then – lets move the WCF service to the cloud! Scenario – This is another take on my “Sunny or Cloudy” metro application we developed in my first post . We will make it visually appealing! And how do I plan to do that? Have you noticed how in...

So you have developed your WCF service to be consumed by your Metro client application – you would likely have done the development on your local machine. What is the next step [before we move to Azure ] ? You will probably take your service and deploy...

So continuing on my WCF 4.5 posts - and expanding on the configuration simplicity theme - I'll dedicate this one to the simplification efforts we have done to ease configuring WCF services. Tooltips support and extended IntelliSense Many folks have a...

I wanted to do this quick post to outline the supported functionality in terms of commonly used APIs for WCF in Metro apps. I am not listing each and every included API in this post but just listing the top level ones which are commonly used to give you...

[Updated for Win8/Dev11 Beta] This is an extension to my earlier post - http://blogs.msdn.com/b/piyushjo/archive/2011/10/10/calling-a-wcf-service-from-a-metro-application.aspx where I did a walkthrough of calling a WCF service hosted locally on the...

[Updated for Win8/Dev11 Beta] In this post, we will do a walkthrough of creating a metro application calling a WCF service hosted locally on the same machine. Note that this is an application development/debug scenario only before you deploy your service...

One of our primary focuses this release was to simplify working with WCF. Configuration simplicity was right at the top since we know most of you find configuration hard and confusing. We will talk about the configuration improvements in separate detailed...

As I promised – I’ll be blogging about the new features introduced in WCF 4.5 here. Before getting into big features, lets start with a few small gems. The first one is the support for Flat WSDL! Interoperability with non-.NET stacks has...

So I have been playing with Azure Service Bus lately. I have created an Azure AppFabric Labs account for myself and this allows me to easily get started with and try Azure AppFabric services like Service Bus, Access Control Service and Cache for my sample...

[Updated for Win8/Dev11 Beta] Hi all, With Windows 8 metro styled applications getting a great buzz - I thought this was a perfect time to introduce the WCF support for Metro applications. We provide support for WCF client inside a Metro application with...

Hi everyone, As you all know that we announced Visual Studio 2011 and the next framework version v4.5 at BUILD conference last week. Please note that we are using the combined forum here - http://forums.asp.net/1239.aspx/1?ASP+NET+4+5+Developer...