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05 December 2008
Enable .NET 3.5 goodies in IIS vdir
Some of you may be oddballs like me: you like .NET, you program in .NET, but you don't always use Visual Studio. You hand-code everything for some applications. You often open up a text editor and just start writing a source module, with no wizards, no Read More...
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07 November 2008
Geneva supports OASIS WS-Trust, SAML
Last week at the PDC 2008, Microsoft released the public beta of “Geneva”. “Geneva” is three things: Geneva Server. This is a security token service (STS), as defined in the OASIS WS-Trust specification. This thing issues and transforms claims, manages Read More...
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04 November 2008
REST in WCF: Varying response content type based on HTTP Request Headers
Damian Mehers made a comment on my blog post from April , but I felt it was worth a full reblog. Damian's used the same WCF extensibility points I used to produce some boilerplate that varies the response content type from JSON to XML, based on the Accept Read More...
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29 October 2008
It just got easier to build REST apps in .NET
The REST starter kit that we launched at PDC is now live! :: http://www.msdn.com/wcf/rest . The WCF REST Starter Kit is a set of features, Visual Studio templates, samples and guidance that help people build REST apps using WCF. WCF, part of the .NET Read More...
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26 September 2008
Interop sessions at Oracle Open World
Jesus and my collegue Kent Brown both spoke at Oracle Open World recently, on interop between WCF and WebLogic. http://weblogs.asp.net/gsusx/archive/2008/09/19/speaking-at-oracle-open-world.aspx But I found out after the fact! nice! Read More...
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25 September 2008
WSDL-First in WCF, versus WSDL-First in ASMX
I wanted to point something out regarding the WSDL-First item I posted yesterday . This is a look at the interface generated by the SvcUtil.exe tool for WCF. [System.CodeDom.Compiler.GeneratedCodeAttribute( "System.ServiceModel" , "3.0.0.0" )] [System.ServiceModel.ServiceContractAttribute(Namespace= Read More...
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24 September 2008
WSDL-First development with WCF
A couple weeks ago I mentioned that you could do WSDL-First development with WCF, but I didn't go into detail as to how that would work. Somebody asked, so I guess I'll describe the specific steps. I want to use a real scenario, so for a WSDL, I will Read More...
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23 September 2008
Flatten your WSDL with this Custom ServiceHost for WCF
Yesterday I mentioned using a custom service host to flatten the WSDL that is generated by a WCF service. This is something Christian showed us all how to do a long while ago, to improve interoperability between WCF-implemented services and consumers Read More...
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22 September 2008
Custom Config file for a WCF Service hosted in IIS
I am constantly developing new WCF services to try out various techniques, ideas, scenarios. Many times for these quickie WCF applications I will just use a text editor to write the code. As you know there are multiple options for hosting your WCF services Read More...
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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...
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10 July 2008
Facebook Thrift, Google ProtoBufs, and Interop
Dare had an en-pointe analysis of the emergence of various new non-standarcd communications protocols, such as Facebook Thrift and Google Protocol buffers , and how they compare to the standards-based comms protocols like RSS, ATOM or even WS-*. Dare Read More...
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07 July 2008
New WCF + WF blog: Endpoint
A New Blog started last week, aggregating WCF and WF topics. If you're like me you have really good intentions about reading blogs, you have your subscriptions all organized, you download the content through outlook daily... but then when it comes down Read More...
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03 April 2008
Varying Content-Type according to the URL in a WCF REST Service
My buddy Justin wrote about how to set the Content-Type headers in a WebGet method in a WCF REST app. Doing this would allow each WebGet method to specify its own Content-Type at runtime. After I summarized how to build a WCF REST app in a post a couple Read More...
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