Much of the content and samples for AppFabric shows developing your web site and services in Visual Studio with the ASP.NET Development Server and then deploying the solution to IIS and AppFabric.  While this works great for many solutions, there...

While browsing through the bowels of MSDN I ran across this page that describes the NetDataContractSerializer .  I’ve never really thought much about it but it is useful to learn something new so I ran the sample code which serializes a person object...

So you like the new OData protocol and the implementation in WCF Data Services… but you hate having a “.SVC” extension in the URI? How do you get rid of the .svc extension with WCF Data Services? Simple… Just use the new ServiceRoute class. For this example...

If you are using Windows Server AppFabric in a development or testing environment you will find the need to quickly clear and reinitialize both the persistence and monitoring databases. Fortunately this is easy with the supplied PowerShell cmdlets...

After my previous post where I showed how you can eliminate the .SVC from your URI with WCF Data Services and System.Web.Routing I got a very good question “While this changes the root URI of the service that a user can browse to,does it also change the...

After my previous post where I showed you how you can eliminate the .SVC extension from your URI someone asked me another good question. When I add the route I can access the service from the route and the path to the SVC file.  Can I block the path...

The WCF Workflow Service template in Visual Studio 2010 creates a Workflow Service using a Sequence as the container. You might not be aware that you can create a Workflow Service using a Flowchart.  To create it do the following Create a Workflow...

Finally – I can use Visual Studio 2010 RTM with the new AppFabric Beta 2 Refresh release.  I installed it using the Web Platform Installer (still the best way on a dev box).   I couldn’t remember the particular cmdlet I was looking for so I...

For the last year I’ve had to say “Sorry we don’t have the State Machine in WF4.”  If you are a fan of the state machine I’ve got good news.  Today the team is releasing the first CTP of a couple Activity Packs on CodePlex.  To give them...

I like to do TDD whenever I can.  So today I was writing some code that would be using the distributed cache features of Windows Server AppFabric and I decided to write unit tests first and then implement my code. Writing code that uses an external...

The emails are rolling in…  Usually they say something like this. Hi Ron - I installed VS2010 and the .NET 4.0 Framework RTM versions yesterday. I then went to re-install Windows Server AppFabric from the Web Platform Installer, but it has a dependency...

To those nearly 5000 people who tried to watch this video today… sorry.  I forgot to publish the video correctly for Channel 9 and didn’t realize it until a couple of hour ago. As I mentioned previously in my post on Developing Services with IIS...

Surprise!  another change hit me this morning.  Previously my config files contained this   1: < dataCacheClient > 2: < hosts > 3: < host name ="localhost" cachePort ="22233" /> 4: <...

Our latest release of the Visual Studio 2010 Training Kit just went live.  The link on the download center is still stale but it should update over the next hour or so.  In the meantime you can download the release directly from here .  ...

I’ll be heading down to my old home in Silicon Valley to present to the Silicon Valley SQL Server User Group about Windows Server AppFabric Caching on April 20th.  I thought it was interesting that this group wanted to hear from me.  After all...

AppFabric has this great new Dashboard that gives you insight into what is happening with your services and workflows. In this video, Senior Programming Writer Michael McKeown shows you what the Dashboard can do for you. Watch it now on endpoint.tv For...