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Monday, March 31, 2008 2:39 PM

WCF Security Guidance

If you're looking for pragmatic guidace for securing your WCF services, look no further. The WCF Security project has been posting how-to documents and videos on its community site . Now is the perfect time to give the team feedback. They aren't done
Posted by donsmith | 0 Comments
Monday, March 10, 2008 7:10 PM

Using MessageContracts and DataContracts

Users of the Service Factory often ask about the rationale behind the required use of MessageContracts even though the use of MessageContracts aren't mandated by WCF. I've answered this question in other venues, but it seemed like a good thing to put
Posted by donsmith | 2 Comments
Friday, April 06, 2007 11:28 PM

First Service Factory v3 Community Drop

Okay, we're off and running now. Earlier today I posted the first of many community drops for Service Factory v3 - don't let "build 19" fool you - this is the first one. It took us longer than expected to get this one out the door, but we're all set now.
Posted by donsmith | 26 Comments
Thursday, January 11, 2007 3:04 AM

Now Available: Aaron's new Service Factory article on MSDN

Steven just told me that Aaron Skonnard's latest Service Factory article about the December release was just published through his Service Station column in the MSDN Magazine . Talk about timing ... sweet. Even though it was written and finished before
Posted by donsmith | 8 Comments
Tuesday, January 09, 2007 11:30 PM

... come and get yer Service Factory!

That's right ladies and gentlemen, the December release of the Web Service Software Factory and a VB.NET version is now available for your consumption, modification, and production pleasures :) Okay, I'm just going to do 3 things in this post since I
Posted by donsmith | 24 Comments
Tuesday, January 09, 2007 9:35 PM

Emerging Guidance

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Posted by donsmith | 9 Comments
Friday, October 06, 2006 3:30 AM

Handcrafting WCF-friendly WSDLs

It's 10:15 pm and I'm still in the office, but I really think I should get this entry posted before I head home - or it won't ever get posted. I was supposed to be working on my demo for my Service Factory session at the SOA Conference tomorrow, but I
Posted by donsmith | 13 Comments
Sunday, July 30, 2006 3:54 PM

Service Factory now available for download!

Before I get ahead of myself, which comes pretty easy for me J , here’s the link to learn more about and download the Service Factory . Wow, I’ve been waiting 8 months to write this blog entry. After months of planning, arguing, development, sleep deprivation,
Posted by donsmith | 11 Comments
Sunday, July 30, 2006 2:38 PM

Just Published: Service Factory ARCast

Ron Jacobs did a load of ARCasts at Tech-Ed in Boston this year. One of them was with Shy Cohen and I about the Service Factory . Well, I just got an email from Ron that he's gotten around to publishing it on Skyscrapr . I can't imagine how many of these
Posted by donsmith | 1 Comments
Friday, July 21, 2006 12:56 AM

Service Architecture Concept Model

I'm posting this because I'm interested in your thoughts about it. IMPORTANT: This is just a concept illustration. I'm not encouraging anyone to accept and begin using the nomenclature used. This is just the result of a conversation Tom and Ed and I had
Posted by donsmith | 9 Comments
Attachment(s): http://dev4net.members.winisp.net/images/conceptmodel.png
Monday, July 17, 2006 2:35 PM

How Teams Build Services

With all this talk of software factories, it's important that we understand the different ways teams will use them to build services. I talk to a lot of customers and, of course, there are several different approaches a team might choose. I hope this
Posted by donsmith | 2 Comments
Friday, April 28, 2006 4:41 PM

Service Factory: Entity Translation

For the third installment I've decided to talk about the entity translation (mapping) capability of the guidance package. Specifically, this is mapping between the entities that are [de]serialized to/from the wire representation and the entities that
Posted by donsmith | 10 Comments
Attachment(s): http://dev4net.members.winisp.net/blogcasts/ServiceFactory-Mapping.wmv
Thursday, April 20, 2006 4:54 AM

Service Factory: Contracts

Here's the second installment of my blogcast series on Service Factory. In this one I show how to create WCF data contracts and service contracts. It's a little bigger and longer than I would have preferred, but since I was building the project (a wine
Posted by donsmith | 14 Comments
Thursday, April 20, 2006 3:53 AM

Service Factory: A Brief Introduction

Here is the first installment of a series of blogcasts I hope to continue that are focused on the project I'm working on. This is just a quick 11 slide PowerPoint presentation that gives you the rationale and scope of the project. It's really the best
Posted by donsmith | 8 Comments
Tuesday, January 31, 2006 3:59 AM

[Web] Service Versioning Guidance

Oh man, I have waited years to be able to post this blog entry. I am finally in a position to release real pragmatic guidance on how to version your services based on your particular scenario. Just last week we kicked off a project that is part of a much
Posted by donsmith | 13 Comments
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