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Thursday, August 14, 2008 5:00 AM

Orcas Screencasts

One last bit of Orcas news for this week. PluralSight will be providing a weekly screencast throughout the year on using WF and WCF. They're focusing on the capabilities of Orcas but will be starting from the basics so you don't need to have any background
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Tuesday, August 12, 2008 5:00 AM

Orcas SP1 Released

The first service pack for .NET Framework 3.5 came out yesterday, primarily focusing on fixing bugs and performance issues. There are some new features, notably around improving the support for REST based services and around serialization. Microsoft .NET
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Wednesday, August 06, 2008 5:00 AM

WCF Security Guide Released

If you've been following along, I have mentioned the WCF security guide project being worked on in the patterns and practices team a few times now. After months of drafts and betas, the complete guide is now ready for official release. The WCF security
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Thursday, July 31, 2008 5:00 AM

StockTrader 2.0 Sample

The .NET StockTrader was an end-to-end sample application released last year to demonstrate WCF and web service programming. A new version of StockTrader has been released to update the application with some of the new features in Orcas and Windows Server
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Monday, July 28, 2008 5:00 AM

WCF Debugger Visualization

A few weeks ago Eyal Vardi left a comment on an article about tools mentioning his WCF debugger visualizers. A debugger visualizer is an extension to Visual Studio that drops in a custom user interface for visualizing types. These custom interfaces can
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Tuesday, July 01, 2008 5:00 AM

Web Service Webcasts in July

Four more webcasts are coming this month to talk about some of the new web service features in Orcas. Each webcast is aimed at developers and lasts 60-90 minutes. Transactional Windows Communication Foundation Services with Juval Lowy (Level 200) Monday,
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Wednesday, June 11, 2008 5:00 AM

Web Service Webcasts in June

Five webcasts are coming this month to talk about some of the new web service features in Orcas. Each webcast is aimed at developers and lasts 60-90 minutes. Beyond the Endpoints with Windows Communication Foundation with Juval Lowy (Level 100) Wednesday,
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Monday, June 09, 2008 5:00 AM

Silverlight 2 Beta 2

A promised Beta 2 was released later last week. In this case, later meant Friday after everyone went home so I updated the original article with a link to the download over the weekend. That means this doesn't count as the post for today. Scott Guthrie
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Thursday, June 05, 2008 5:00 AM

Improving Web Services Security Beta Guide

The WCF Security Guide content that I've mentioned a few times before is now done with early drafts and has been rolled up into a beta release of the full book. There's a ton of content in the real thing on top of what you've been seeing in the drafts.
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Wednesday, June 04, 2008 5:00 AM

Silverlight 2 Beta 2 Coming

At TechEd yesterday the next beta release of Silverlight 2 was announced to come out later this week. In Beta 2 you'll be much closer to seeing the complete subset of WCF that has been ported to the Silverlight platform. In particular, the work we've
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Monday, June 02, 2008 5:00 AM

Managed Services Engine June CTP

I'm a big fan of using service virtualization to solve a variety of problems with developing and managing web services. The Managed Services Engine is a solution built on top of WCF to supply a repository-based runtime and management tool for service
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Tuesday, May 13, 2008 5:00 AM

Orcas SP1 Beta Released

Yesterday, a beta version of the first service pack for .Net Framework 3.5 was released including fixes and new features for WCF. The new features are primarily around serialization and tooling although there are enhancements scattered throughout many
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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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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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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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