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Monday, May 12, 2008 5:00 AM

Disabling the Visual Studio Service Host

When debugging a WCF project in Visual Studio the WCF Service Host starts up to host my service. How do I stop this from happening so that I can use my own service host? One of the new tools in Orcas is the WCF Service Host that allows you to automatically
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Friday, May 09, 2008 5:00 AM

Setting the Configuration Name

What's the difference between the Name and ConfigurationName on service contracts and behaviors? The Name property sets the name of the service in metadata while the ConfigurationName property sets the name of the service in configuration. Metadata is
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Thursday, May 08, 2008 5:00 AM

WCF Silverlight Blog

I haven't had nearly as much time as I wanted to write about our efforts porting WCF to the Silverlight platform or tell you about what we've managed to build. I'm still planning to do feature highlight posts along the way but your best source of day-to-day
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Wednesday, May 07, 2008 5:00 AM

Generating Types with Lists

I have a data contract that contains a collection type but the generated proxy appears as an array. How can I make the proxy use a collection type as well? I've talked in the past about how the representation of a type in metadata is decoupled from the
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Tuesday, May 06, 2008 5:00 AM

Updates to WCF Security Guidance

After the first announcement for the WCF Security Guidance Project , the amount of content has grown tremendously. Here's a summary of what's new over the last month. Seven new application scenarios: Intranet - Web to Remote WCF Using Transport Security
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Monday, May 05, 2008 5:00 AM

Private Data Members

Why does a data contract with private or internal members generate a proxy with public fields? The obvious answer is that the representation for data contracts doesn't contain information about member visibility but that just leads to the question of
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Friday, May 02, 2008 5:00 AM

Messaging Additions in Orcas, Part 4

Today wraps up the series on detailed messaging changes in Orcas. You can get the whole series here as well as the previous high-level overview of new Orcas features I did. Messaging Additions in Orcas Messaging Additions in Orcas, Part 2 Messaging Additions
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Thursday, May 01, 2008 5:00 AM

TIBCO Announces WCF Integration

At their user conference in San Francisco yesterday, TIBCO announced two integration initiatives to bring the TIBCO and Microsoft platforms closer together. TIBCO is developing a TIBCO EMS transport channel for WCF. Although Microsoft doesn't have a formal
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