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Wednesday, October 14, 2009 5:00 AM

WCF Case Studies Year 3

Two and a half years ago I put together an initial list of case studies involving WCF from the Microsoft case study site. Yesterday I covered the year past the initial list and this time I'll go one year farther. Today's list covers roughly a year starting
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Tuesday, October 13, 2009 5:00 AM

WCF Case Studies Year 2

Two and a half years ago I put together an initial list of case studies involving WCF from the Microsoft case study site. I thought I'd give an update to gather together a list of case studies published since then. Today's list covers roughly a year stretching
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Thursday, September 24, 2009 5:00 AM

Guide to the WCF REST Starter Kit Preview

We've got a new article up on MSDN by Aaron Skonnard that covers the most recent preview release of the WCF REST Starter Kit. The download for REST expands on the capabilities we added in Orcas for building web services with REST protocols with features
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Friday, August 07, 2009 5:00 AM

Windows 7 (and Orcas SP1) SDK Released

The final version of the Windows 7 SDK is now available. If you've been using the beta SDK releases for samples or tools, then this is the version of the SDK that you'll want to install. Here are the links to download: Microsoft Windows SDK for Windows
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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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Tuesday, June 16, 2009 5:00 AM

Managed API for Windows Features

The Windows API Code Pack put out a new update recently (version 0.90) that adds new supported APIs to the set of managed wrappers around native Windows features. The code pack is a way to provide access to Windows features that lack an existing managed
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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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Wednesday, May 27, 2009 5:00 AM

Windows Vista SP2 Released

The second service pack for Windows Vista has been published, along with a direct installation through Windows Update. Automated Windows Update delivery installation should be expected in the future. For WCF users, installing Windows Vista SP2 means rolling
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Wednesday, May 06, 2009 5:00 AM

WCF at VSLive 2009 V2

The June edition of VSLive 2009 is next month June 8th through 10th in Las Vegas. If you're interested in attending to hear about WCF, there's a dedicated track on the first day as well as some related sessions on the third day. VM3 Understanding Transactions
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Wednesday, April 29, 2009 5:00 AM

WCF at TechEd 2009

TechEd 2009 is just a few weeks away now May 11th through 15th in Los Angeles. Here's what's on tap at the conference covering WCF. SOA201 A First Look at WCF and WF in the Microsoft .NET Framework 4 by Aaron Skonnard Programs coordinate work. The code
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Monday, April 27, 2009 5:00 AM

Trapping Template Errors

When using a typed contract with URI templates, how do I catch any type conversion errors? The WebGet and WebInvoke attributes allow you to specify a URI template that maps components of the request address to operation parameters. For example, the URI
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Monday, April 20, 2009 5:00 AM

Presentations from the SOA Business Process Conference

I noticed recently that videos and slides were available for the presentations at the 2009 SOA Business Process Conference held here at Microsoft in the end of January. Here's a few of the presentations that you might be interested in. .NET Fx, BizTalk,
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Thursday, February 26, 2009 5:00 AM

Improving Hosted HTTP Request Scaling

A few months ago Wenlong Dong announced an improvement to HTTP request scalability when WCF is hosted in IIS. In order to take advantage of the improvement you need the combination of IIS7 or later and Orcas SP1 installed. Since this isn't the ubiquitous
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Tuesday, February 17, 2009 5:00 AM

Understanding Installation Failures

More good articles on framework installation issues by Aaron Stebner are available than the ones related to the verification and cleanup tools I posted about last week. Here's a quick selection of a few of the articles about WCF. The first article covers
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Friday, December 19, 2008 5:00 AM

Orcas SP1 Update

An update to Orcas SP1 is being rolled out that will be available through Windows Update. The update contains application compatibility fixes for the .NET Framework following the Orcas SP1 release. If for some reason you need to install it directly, the
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