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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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Monday, May 12, 2008 5:00 AM

Disabling the Visual Studio Service Host

When debugging a WCF project in Visual Studio the WCF Service Host starts up to host my service. How do I stop this from happening so that I can use my own service host? One of the new tools in Orcas is the WCF Service Host that allows you to automatically
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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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Tuesday, April 29, 2008 5:00 AM

Messaging Additions in Orcas, Part 2

Continuing on with the theme of messaging additions in Orcas, today I'll look at some more of the protocols and community-driven features that were added. WS Atomic Transaction 1.1 . Transactions tie together multiple participants in a distributed application.
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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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Monday, April 21, 2008 5:00 AM

Context Channel Shapes

What channels can be used in a context binding? The primary limitation for building a context binding is that the channel stack has to have the right shape. The context exchange protocol used by a context binding requires that the first invoked operation
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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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Thursday, March 13, 2008 5:00 AM

Partial Trust Binding Black List

Partial trust support in WCF is an Orcas feature that allows clients and services to be run in an environment with restricted permissions. WCF is part of a fully trusted installation, so by default partially trusted callers are not allowed to call into
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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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