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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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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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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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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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Wednesday, April 09, 2008 5:00 AM

Writing Smart Clients and Peer to Peer Programming

I don't recall seeing these before but I noticed that there were two new articles on WCF up on the .NET Framework Developer Center. The first article is by Juval Lowy on Writing Smart Clients . Juval talks about concurrency and synchronization issues
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Thursday, March 27, 2008 5:00 AM

WCF and WF in the Framework Training Kit

I hadn't seen this before, but the training kit for Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 was updated a few weeks ago. This kit includes demos, presentations, and labs to go through self-directed and at your own pace. If you've got a copy of Visual
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Monday, February 11, 2008 5:00 AM

Windows Server 2008 (and Orcas) SDK Released

Last week the final version of the Windows Server 2008 SDK went online. If you've been using the beta SDK releases for Orcas samples or tools, then this is the version of the SDK that you'll want to install. Here are the links to the download materials:
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