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Tuesday, September 08, 2009 5:00 AM

Some History of the Named Pipe, Part 4

Here are the past articles in the series to get up to date: Some History of the Named Pipe, Part 1 (Unix pipes) Some History of the Named Pipe, Part 2 (Unix fifo) Some History of the Named Pipe, Part 3 (Windows named pipe) The last part in this series
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Monday, August 31, 2009 5:00 AM

Some History of the Named Pipe, Part 3

Some History of the Named Pipe, Part 1 (Unix pipes) Some History of the Named Pipe, Part 2 (Unix fifo) Some History of the Named Pipe, Part 3 (Windows named pipe) Some History of the Named Pipe, Part 4 (WCF named pipe) In earlier parts we looked at the
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Thursday, August 27, 2009 5:00 AM

Some History of the Named Pipe, Part 2

Some History of the Named Pipe, Part 1 (Unix pipes) Some History of the Named Pipe, Part 2 (Unix fifo) Some History of the Named Pipe, Part 3 (Windows named pipe) Some History of the Named Pipe, Part 4 (WCF named pipe) The anonymous pipes that I talked
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Wednesday, August 26, 2009 5:00 AM

Some History of the Named Pipe, Part 1

Some History of the Named Pipe, Part 1 (Unix pipes) Some History of the Named Pipe, Part 2 (Unix fifo) Some History of the Named Pipe, Part 3 (Windows named pipe) Some History of the Named Pipe, Part 4 (WCF named pipe) Let’s start with the more ancient
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Monday, August 10, 2009 5:00 AM

Windows API Code Pack V1 Released

Going along with Windows 7, the final version of the Windows API Code Pack was released last week. The code pack is a way to provide access to Windows features that lack a managed interface in the framework today, primarily for things added in Windows
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Monday, July 27, 2009 5:00 AM

What Will Be New in Networking for Beta 2

The NCL team has released their list of new networking features for .Net framework 4 beta 2 . A partial summary of the features is: Opening socket connections using the DNS name of the machine Opening socket connections for IPv4 and IPv6 simultaneously
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Friday, July 24, 2009 5:00 AM

Finding Free Ports, Part 2

Yesterday I talked about the algorithm the TCP transport uses to reserve a unique port when listening on both IPv4 and IPv6 addreses is enabled for a service. Why are the random port numbers drawn from the range 49152-65535? Because that’s the range the
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Thursday, July 23, 2009 5:00 AM

Finding Free Ports

One of the options for the listen URI for the TCP transport is to let the transport make the address unique by filling in details such as the port number. The socket API allows specifying a wildcard port but at the time WCF was written the wildcard port
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Friday, May 08, 2009 5:00 AM

Advanced Debugging for Network Development

Two new screencast videos on Channel 9 come from the Windows Protocol team demonstrating Network Monitor and other debugging tools. The videos are of sessions at an event for Windows protocol licensees a few weeks ago so the intended audience is primarily
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Thursday, April 23, 2009 5:00 AM

Network Monitor 3.3 Released

A new release of the Network Monitor tool for capturing and analyzing network traffic is available. Added features include improved support for running inside virtualized environments and a plugin system for installing analysis modules that filter and
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Wednesday, April 08, 2009 5:00 AM

40 Years of RFC

Yesterday marked the 40th anniversary of RFC 1 published by Steve Crocker at UCLA and covering host software for processing messages. The contents are forgettable but signify the start of an initiative that has broadly impacted how network standards are
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Friday, April 03, 2009 5:00 AM

Guests Not Welcome

I recently encountered an annoyance while trying to build a low-privileged web service client: calling IPAddress.Parse with a low-privileged account (for example, a guest account) blows up. This is because the Parse function unconditionally initializes
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Monday, March 16, 2009 5:00 AM

Network Monitor 3.3 Beta

A new beta release of Network Monitor is available on Connect. Network Monitor is a tool for tracing and analyzing network traffic that's particularly useful at capturing wire data for WCF applications. You can get details about the new features in Network
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Wednesday, February 25, 2009 5:00 AM

Introduction to Ad Hoc Discovery

Jesus Rodriguez has a description of WS-Discovery that covers examples in WCF 4.0 for ad hoc discovery networks. Ad hoc discovery is the approach that uses broadcast messages to publish and discover resources on the network. The other approach, managed
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Tuesday, February 24, 2009 5:00 AM

February Free Book Offer

The February edition of the free Microsoft book of the month includes a downloadable version of the Windows Vista Resource Kit , which you might find interesting if you're looking for details about the new features in Windows Vista. There's no reason
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