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05 September 2008
Using the WSDL-First design approach with WCF services
Couple of helpful posts from the archives for you. If you are care about interop, then you probably want to use a contract-first or WSDL-first design for your web services. In other words, you will not simply decorate server-side code annotations (in Read More...
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04 September 2008
Web services interop with WCF - Relevant Forum Questions
I was just browsing the WCF forum on MSDN. Here's a summary of the recent interesting threads dealing with interop: How to map complex data types exposed by a J2EE web services, into a WCF client? How to use connect from an AXIS 2 client to a WCF service Read More...
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22 August 2008
How to Build REST apps on .NET using WCF
There's a new screencast series on building services using the WCF part of .NET. The first few are already available. The first one is the basic "Hello World" example, the next couple cover REST: How to build a WCF Service using Visual Studio 2008, and Read More...
28 March 2008
Content-Type negotiation and REST (and how WCF fits in)
Just had a comment-exchange on my prior post on How to build a REST app in WCF . I thought I would reproduce and elaborate on it a bit here, in a post. Kyle Beyer asked how to make WCF honor a content-type header (Accept header) in the request, and then Read More...
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20 March 2008
How to Build a REST app in .NET (with WCF)
My prior post talked about how NOT to write a REST app in .NET. I mentioned WCF as the preferred option. In this post, I'll describe the steps for how you should do it. Some background First up, you should use WCF to build your REST app. WCF is the Windows Read More...
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18 March 2008
How to build a REST app in .NET (not)
This post by Jack Altiere describes how to build a REST API in .NET. This spurred a respose... Firstly, I think really he is talking about a REST interface, not an API. REST is all about the interface. Maybe I am splitting hairs here, but I think it is Read More...
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17 March 2008
Get Smart on WCF
Joe Stagner posted a good list o links for learning WCF. A good first stop on your journey. http://www.joeon.net/post/2008/03/windows-communication-foundation---65-links-to-make-you-an-expert!.aspx Read More...
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17 March 2008
SAP Enterprise Services Explorer for .NET (Visual Studio) does WCF
via http://dedjo.blogspot.com/2008/03/localization-fix-for-sap-esa-explorer.html SAP just released a sneak preview of an add-in for Visual Studio 2005 that they call "SAP Enterprise Services Explorer for Microsoft .NET ". It feels like a misnomer to me, Read More...
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05 February 2008
Another SOAP and REST discussion, Same Result
Catching up with some reading, I was looking through the SDTimes issue from January 1st (yes, I know, it is now February. Cut me some slack!). In it, Sanjiva Weerawarana, CEO of WS02, has a guest editorial column about your favorite subject and mine: Read More...
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13 November 2007
SOAP? REST? Whichever you choose, WCF is the right framework
There's a new paper by David Chappell that is worth checking out. Entitled "Dealing with Diversity: Understanding WCF Communication Options in the .NET Framework 3.5", it discusses WCF and its applicability to REST as well as WS-* style communications. Read More...
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11 October 2007
Introduction to WCF - Article on TechTarget
Last week, TechTarget published an article I wrote providing a brief introduction to WCF. If you haven't had a chance to look at WCF, it may be worth a look. It's about 2 printed pages (not that you or I would print it out, because we are both so environmentally Read More...
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09 October 2007
Benchmarks and Interop: IBM responds to StockTrader
Just saw comments by Andrew Spyker of IBM on the StockTrader demonstration and benchmark that my buddy and esteemed colleague Greg Leake put together. IBM's Trade 6.1 benchmark application is a sample and performance testing application published by IBM, Read More...
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09 October 2007
WCF and Apache AXIS interop
I'm getting back to building and publishing working examples. My latest is a working example of a WCF client communicating with an Apache AXIS 1.4 server, using web services. You can find it here . There's full source code available. This one shows complex Read More...
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21 September 2007
WCF and interop with Javascript
Check out this short post from Livz.org on WCF interop with Javascript. Read More...
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17 September 2007
SCA is an endorsement of WCF?
huh? SCA is an endorsement of WCF ? Seriously? I posted earlier in the summer about SCA and made a statement to that effect. That post just got a comment questioning my sanity or intelligence or both (the comment asked if I was in marketing. Can you believe Read More...
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