Geeks Bearing Gifts

Windows Phone 7 & Azure Service Bus REST Authentication and Messaging

Prathul Prabhakar - MSFT — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 05:18:00 GMT

Important: In this sample the secret key is present on the client (Phone) itself. SInce a secret key can never be stored safely on phone, on a production system, the users should be authenticated using a identity provider to get a user token that can...(read more)

Pex Issue : "Delete Generated Unit Tests in Class" or Using existing test projects

Prathul Prabhakar - MSFT — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 05:01:00 GMT

To give a brief overview of what Pex is, Microsoft Pex is a Visual Studio add-in that provides runtime code analysis for .NET code. With just a few mouse clicks, you can explore code-under-test to understand input/output behavior in the code, save...(read more)

FIX: WCF Metadata not published

Prathul Prabhakar - MSFT — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 08:56:28 GMT

Ever faced this problem? No matter whatever you try, your WCF service metadata just wouldn’t get exposed. The basic steps (which you must have already tried) is to enable mex end point, <endpoint address="mex" binding="mexHttpBinding" contract...(read more)

Now Available : Appfabric 1.1 Caching GUI Administrator

Prathul Prabhakar - MSFT — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 07:08:20 GMT

Finally, I have published the graphical untility to administer and configure Appfabric 1.1 caching. This utility will make your life easier when configuring the read-through, write behind provider. I plan to make changes to this as and when required with...(read more)

Windows Phone users! Forget 'Siri'; Ask Ziggy

Prathul Prabhakar - MSFT — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 06:32:00 GMT

Wish you a very happy new year!!! May this year be filled with success and fabulous joys! :) Nothing technical today. Just came across an app for Windows Phone which brings Siri functionality to your Windows Phone. The best part is that the app is...(read more)

Architecture: Solving a resequencing problem

Prathul Prabhakar - MSFT — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 13:14:00 GMT

Problem: Some systems, especially the financial ones require that the sequence of orders coming into the system be maintained after processing. This sounds like a simple problem to solve. But consider the same system in a scaled up scenario. There...(read more)

WCF - Windows Service Hosting Error Resolutions

Prathul Prabhakar - MSFT — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 17:01:36 GMT

Ever came across any of these errors while hosting WCF on windows service ? 1. The xxx service on Local Computer started and then stopped. Some services stop automatically if they are not in use by other services or programs. or 2. Service cannot...(read more)

A simple Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) application using ImportMany

Prathul Prabhakar - MSFT — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 12:28:00 GMT

Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) is a component of .NET Framework 4.0 for creating lightweight, extensible applications. Using this, you can discover and use extensions at run-time with no configuration required. Imagine adding a new functionality...(read more)

Windows Server Appfabric 1.1 RTM is now available: Whats new?

Prathul Prabhakar - MSFT — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 06:56:00 GMT

The much awaited Windows Server Appfabric 1.1 is now RTM and available for download. Windows Server Appfabric as we know includes the on premise caching and hosting service. The new features of 1.1 are: Read-Through/Write-Behind Graceful Shutdown...(read more)

Appfabric Cache: Read from & Write to Database (Read through - Write behind)

Prathul Prabhakar - MSFT — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 07:24:41 GMT

The Windows Server Appfabric 1.1 CTP has the much awaited Read-through and Write-through feature. Read through - If a requested item doesn't exist in the cache, the data can be loaded from backend store and then inserted into cache. With a read...(read more)

Hosting WCF NetTCP on IIS WAS

Prathul Prabhakar - MSFT — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 09:27:00 GMT

This post will walk you through setting up and running a WCF service using NetTcp binding on Windows Process Activation Service (WAS). WAS is a new feature of IIS 7.0 and makes it possible to host WCF services beyond HTTP and without installing the whole...(read more)