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Wednesday, July 08, 2009 5:00 AM

Contract First Development Tool

A beta release of the Web Services Contract First tool is available on CodePlex. This is a Visual Studio 2008 add-in targetting WCF made by the same group in the web services community that did a tool of the same name for ASMX (to tell the two apart,
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Tuesday, July 07, 2009 5:00 AM

DinnerNow Sample 3.0

DinnerNow is a sample restaurant marketplace application that demonstrates many different Microsoft web service technologies. You may have seen the application distributed as a standalone sample as well as appearing in many hands-on labs and booth demos
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Monday, July 06, 2009 5:00 AM

Environment Independent Versions

In the recommendation for designing versionable contract names , there was no mention of the deployment environment of the service. Should this be included by, for example, having different namespaces for development and production deployments of the
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Thursday, July 02, 2009 5:00 AM

The Development Server is Not for Production

After creating a WCF service application in Visual Studio you might have noticed that the project configuration has three choices of web servers for testing the application: Use Visual Studio Development Server Use Local IIS Web Server Use Custom Web
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Wednesday, July 01, 2009 5:00 AM

Binary Http Binding

Do I need IIS7 to use binary with HTTP for WCF? No, all you need is a custom binding because we don’t include a standard binding with that configuration out of the box. Here’s a quick example of putting binary and HTTP together with either code or configuration:
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Tuesday, June 30, 2009 5:00 AM

Michele’s Norwegian Developers Conference Slides

Michele Bustamante has published the slides and demos from her talks at the recent Norwegian Developers Conference. Michele has some great variety in material covering WCF, Azure services, and security. You can get the complete set of slides which includes:
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Friday, June 26, 2009 5:00 AM

Via on Demand

How do I specify a delivery address for messages from a proxy that are different from the service address? Two different addresses are sometimes both referred to as the address for sending messages. There is a logical address, called the To address, that
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Thursday, June 25, 2009 5:00 AM

WCF Load Test Tool 3.0 Beta

Rob Jarratt has updated the community-driven WCF load test tool with a new beta release. The test tool uses a trace captured from a previous run of a WCF service to automatically generate a test case that performs the same sequence of operations. This
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Monday, June 22, 2009 5:00 AM

Serialization Methods for Collections

What methods do I need to implement to have data serialized and deserialized for a collection? Serialization considers there to be three primary types of collections: dictionary-based collections, list-based collections, and plain old collections (everything
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Wednesday, June 17, 2009 5:00 AM

Platform Changes in 4.0: Security

The beta 1 release of .Net 4.0 has some big differences compared to previous releases for dealing with code security. If you’ve used the CAS (code access security) model then you might know it’s a fairly complicated set of policies and assertions for
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Monday, June 15, 2009 5:00 AM

Collection Name Generation

Last time we were looking at how to replace the default names used for serializing collections , such as ArrayOfKeyValueOfstringArrayOfstringty7Ep6D1, with more intelligible names. However, where did that funny looking name come from in the first place?
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Thursday, June 11, 2009 5:00 AM

Naming Collection Items

How do I replace the names of entries in a collection? By default the names inside of a collection are based on the type or role of the entry. < CheeseMap > < KeyValueOfstringCheeseListLjh4bohd > < Key > Sweden </ Key > < Value
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Wednesday, June 10, 2009 5:00 AM

Metadata Client Behaviors

Can I apply client behaviors to a MetadataExchangeClient to change how it retrieves metadata? Once a MetadataExchangeClient is built, you don’t have access to its internals to poke around at the description tree. You need to have set things up ahead of
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Tuesday, June 09, 2009 5:00 AM

Required Framework Versions

What framework versions do I need to have installed to use WCF? There have been five framework versions released plus various service packs for each version. .Net framework 1.0 (up to SP3) .Net framework 1.1 (up to SP1) .Net Framework 2.0 (up to SP2)
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Thursday, June 04, 2009 5:00 AM

Understanding Address Filtering

Ordinarily a message is delivered to an endpoint on the basis of the message's delivery address being equal to the endpoint's listening address. If there's no endpoint listening at that address then you get an EndpointNotFoundException and the message
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