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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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Wednesday, April 30, 2008 5:00 AM

Messaging Additions in Orcas, Part 3

Now that I've covered several of the new feature additions in Orcas I also want to include mention of some of the fixes done to improve interoperability with other platforms. Allowing an empty SOAPAction. Previously we required that the HTTP SOAPAction
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Friday, April 25, 2008 5:00 AM

Messaging Additions in Orcas

I've had scattered posts in the past talking about the messaging features and enhancements in Orcas. Over the next few days I'm going to be doing a bit of consolidating to organize that information into a few listings of the top changes using reasonably
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Wednesday, April 23, 2008 5:00 AM

Manual Context Management

How do I manually manage the context when sharing a client object? The default mode when using a context binding is for the context to be managed internally by the context channel underneath the client proxy. This is similar to how by default cookies
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Thursday, April 17, 2008 5:00 AM

Why Dual is Reliable

You may have noticed that bindings use two different classes for configuring reliability: ReliableSession and OptionalReliableSession. The only difference between the two is that OptionalReliableSession has an Enabled property that allows the reliable
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Tuesday, March 04, 2008 5:00 AM

20 Years of Content Types

An invention that now seems to be ubiquitous turns out to only be 20 years old. RFC 1049 introduced the notion of a standardized Content-type field that message processors could use to automatically identify the type of a structured message and interpret
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Friday, February 29, 2008 5:00 AM

Runtime Limits in IIS

Does the IIS HTTP runtime configuration affect a WCF application? Yes, when the application is using IIS to host its HTTP endpoints. A WCF application that lives in IIS is an IIS application as well, even if you aren't explicitly using ASP.NET compatibility
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Tuesday, February 05, 2008 5:00 AM

Building on Custom Cookie Handling

By request I expanded the code in the earlier article on custom cookie handling to show a more interesting sample. This time I illustrated making the initial request and capturing a cookie rather than echoing a cookie that the client already had. This
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Friday, February 01, 2008 5:00 AM

Programming for the Web in Orcas

Steve Maine has put together an index of documentation for all of the new WCF web programming features in Orcas. This includes the support for: JSON RSS and Atom syndication feeds URI templates HTTP enhancements As well as features that web developers
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Thursday, January 17, 2008 5:00 AM

Custom Cookie Handling

Cookies are the de facto correlation protocol for web applications, which means HTTP applications rather than SOAP. Most uses of cookies in web services are quite simplistic with the standard cookie container behavior sufficiently up to the task of handling
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Monday, January 14, 2008 5:00 AM

Custom Password Validation for HTTP

Phil Henning has written about creating a custom username/password validator for HTTP , which is another new feature in Orcas. Like getting access to client IP addresses , creating a custom password validator is a feature added as a result of direct customer
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Friday, January 04, 2008 5:00 AM

Accessing the Query String

How do I get access to the query string of an HTTP request when processing a message? The query string isn't one of the properties available on the new WebOperationContext but you can still get access to it through the HTTP request message property. MessageProperties
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Monday, December 31, 2007 5:00 AM

Mapping Credentials to Authentication Schemes

You may have noticed that an HTTP binding is configured with an HttpClientCredentialType whereas an HTTP binding element is configured with an AuthenticationScheme. How are these two settings related? If you want to switch between a custom binding and
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Friday, December 28, 2007 5:00 AM

Controlling HTTP Connection Limits

I need to make many simultaneous HTTP calls to the same service from my client application. How do I increase the limit on the number of HTTP connections? This setting isn't available on any of the bindings or binding elements but the default limit can
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Thursday, October 18, 2007 5:00 AM

Controlling HTTP Caching

Is HttpResponse.Cache the preferred way to control caching? HttpResponse is only available in ASP.NET compatibility mode. No, you don't need ASP.NET compatibility mode to set cache headers. In fact, almost everything from HttpResponse can be done by attaching
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