For IIS/WAS hosted services backed by a physical .SVC file (WCF 3.0/3.5) you can specify a custom ServiceHostFactory in the .svc file as part of service specification . There is no such declaration for XAMLX files and instead you can use config-based...

Recently I've spoken with a few customers that have asked what a Lambda Expression is, which surprised me. It seems that a second wave of developers are now starting to use Lambdas (i.e. those that didn't adopt C# 3.0 immediately) and need some pointers...

I was onsite today with a customer who was having problems getting WCF to work, and after much wailing and gnashing we finally arrived at a solution so I thought I would blog it. We were getting an EndpointNotFoundException with the error message “There...

Recently I've been coordinating and authoring some JavaScript best practice documentation, and one area that came up which I thought was interesting was the reason for using prototypes instead of constructors to define JavaScript class members. Thanks...

I usually receive a very common question when customers jump into the WinDbg adventure, and is related to the loading of SOS when the version of the .NET mismatches the version installed on their system. The scenario is quite common, you have a customer...

This week I hosted an interactive session at the Architect Insight Conference with my colleague Josh Twist ... if you were there thanks for being so interactive! We really enjoyed it and found it useful so I hope you did too. One concept that I mentioned...

This is part of a mini-series: Part 1 – Define the problem & give a workaround Part 2 – Show an alternative workaround Part 3 – Show a reusable, simple solution This is the third part in a mini-series and so far I’ve presented the problem...

This is part of a mini-series: Part 1 – Define the problem & give a workaround Part 2 – Show an alternative workaround Part 3 – Show a reusable, simple solution Last time I outlined a problem that I was having with rendering a collection...

This is part of a mini-series: Part 1 – Define the problem & give a workaround Part 2 – Show an alternative workaround Part 3 – Show a reusable, simple solution I’ve been spending quite a lot of time with ASP.NET MVC 2 recently, talking...