Thom Robbins .NET Weblog

As we have seen in previous articles . Creating a Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) service begins with annotating the class with a <ServiceContract> attribute and an <OperationContract> for each exposed operation. The design of WCF uses...

The Root Namespace property sets the base namespace for all files in the project. If you want to set the the root namespace of a Windows Form project it is done through the following steps. 1. Select My Project 2. Within the application tab...

Very cool looking little tool that I am downloading now to check out. This download will enable you to send SMS text messages through most Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) mobile phones connected to your PC using Microsoft Office Outlook...

Since my move out here things have been a bit hectic. Between the move here, the great Washington’s blizzard, a bizarre wind storm and various other things. I am a bit behind. One of the new things for me is having an office. Having worked out my home...

In case you haven’t heard Seattle and the outlying areas had a huge wind storm late last week. Coming from New England I have to say it was pretty incredible and was a lot like the infamous Nor’easters. The unfortunate part was that this resulted in some...

An excellent read and congratulations to Doug for putting this together. The Advantages of Running Applications on Windows Vista Details improvements in the Windows operating system with the release of Windows Vista, and describes new features in...

Visual Studio 2005 represents one of the most significant developer tools releases since the introduction of Visual Studio nearly a decade ago. It offers all types of developers a wider spectrum of development possibilities and a greatly advanced design...

Thanks to everyone that attended yesterdays Webcast on Real World SOA. As promised you can find the slides here . Also as we talked about take a look at the recently updated Microsoft SOA site for some additional resources available here .

Windows XP introduces a new look and feel to the Windows user interface. This new interface provided controls that have rounded corners and that change colors when you pause your mouse over them. By default Windows based applications created with Visual...

In case you haven’t seen it. The MSDN library has recently made available a Community Content feature for the Visual Studio 2005 documentation and the .NET 3.0 Class Library on MSDN Online. This feature is designed to allow the community of developers...

Via Brian I got an email yesterday from Takeshi over at DiscountASP and they just launched free IIS7 Beta hosting for all customers who are interested. You can get all the details at http://www.discountasp.net/sp_iis7hosting.aspx This is a great...

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Assembly information is an important part of building an application. This is what gets generated to the executable during compilation. How can you see where this data gets published? Within in a Windows application select the project properties ...

A very useful environment enumeration is SpecialFolder. This provides an enumeration to special folders like My Pictures or the Startup menu. These folders are set by default by the system, or explicitly by the user. For example, ever try to get at a...

I am betting that you have at least one if not more ASMX services available today within your applications. So how do you get going with Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and maintain that existing code? In this article we will look at an example...

Paul has a nice list of the WF samples available for VB developers here .

I just saw this beta and installed it. Very cool! More information and download for your mobile device is here .

Join me for a Webcast In this webcast, we discuss the Microsoft vision for service-oriented architecture and show how Microsoft supports this vision by way of an integrated platform. Learn how you can use your existing systems, line-of-business (LOB...

Pretty nice set of snippets This download includes snippets for use when customizing Microsoft Office Excel 2007, Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007, and Microsoft Office Word 2007. Download and install these snippets to your Visual Studio code snippet...

Attend three webcasts and get a free copy. Definitely not a bad deal! http://www.powertogether.com/