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Wednesday, October 07, 2009 5:00 AM

PDC 2009 Plans

Several new PDC sessions were published recently including one session that I'll be delivering. Application Server Extensibility with Microsoft Project Code Name “Dublin” and Microsoft ASP.NET 4 by Nicholas Allen ASP.NET 4 and “Dublin” provide new application
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Wednesday, August 05, 2009 5:00 AM

Using Managed Services Engine for Virtualization

It’s been a year since I last talked about the Managed Services Engine, which is a prebuilt solution for virtualizing web services through metadata inspection and message routing. Since then they’ve released two more CTPs, the most recent one being the
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Monday, July 20, 2009 5:00 AM

Reading Configuration from a Repository

Can I use a centralized configuration repository in a distributed WCF application? Yes, configuration is something that’s abstracted from the service or client logic in WCF although replacing the implementation behind that abstraction can be quite a bit
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Wednesday, April 22, 2009 5:00 AM

Code or Config

How do I decide what parts of my service to specify in code? Should I support changing all of the settings in configuration? The split between code and configuration comes from a difference in roles and responsibility for a service. If your job is to
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Monday, March 30, 2009 5:00 AM

Building Cloud Services

Aaron Skonnard has an article in the April edition of MSDN Magazine on building applications with .Net Services . .Net Services are a service implementation for the Azure cloud platform that will be the most familiar to programmers who have built WCF
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Thursday, March 19, 2009 5:00 AM

Talking about Services

Joel Reyes is an evangelist on the public sector team that writes occasional articles covering different Microsoft services technologies. Here's a sample of some of them that you might enjoy. Building services using ASP.NET: Routing , MVC Building services
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Tuesday, February 03, 2009 5:00 AM

Stefan Tilkov on REST

Stefan is a skeptic about SOAP protocols and advocates REST as a way of reaching the goals of service-oriented application design. This conference presentation is Stefan talking about the principles of REST for an hour and the benefits of applying REST
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Wednesday, November 19, 2008 5:00 AM

Future of Correlation

One of the topics that you'll hear a lot about for asynchronous and decoupled programming in WCF 4.0 is correlation. Correlation is a relationship between one message and another message or one message and a piece of state. With synchronous programming,
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Tuesday, September 23, 2008 5:00 AM

Hosted Service Shutdown

I've talked a bit in the past about the tradeoffs of using IIS to host your service applications. In order to use IIS as a host, you must give up some level of control about how your application functions. This is similarly true with any other host you
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Tuesday, September 02, 2008 5:00 AM

Waiting for Ready Channels

When I create a channel to a service, how do I know when the service is ready to process the data for that channel? A channel doesn't really know what the service is doing. The service might be actively processing the data being sent over the channel.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2008 5:00 AM

Help with Security Programming

Security programming today tends to contain large amount of plumbing code to handle the modeling, management, and evaluation of identities. An identity is the basis of many common security operations, such as authentication, personalization, authorization,
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Monday, July 14, 2008 5:00 AM

Architect Insight Conference Talks

Slide decks are available from the Architect Insight Conference 2008 held in the UK at the end of April. These talks are fluffier than ones that I normally point to and since you only have the slides and not the audio, I recommend picking a few based
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Friday, July 11, 2008 5:00 AM

Naming Contracts for Versioning

Some tips for building support for versioning into the naming of data contracts. First, the primary route for versioning should be through the namespace part of the contract rather than the member name part of the contract. Versioning the contract through
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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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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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