Franci Penov

IServiceProvider vs. IServiceProvider

Franci Penov — Tue, 20 May 2008 10:18:00 GMT

I've been using the COM IServiceProvider interface for a while now, mostly through extensions to the ATL's IServiceProviderImpl and BEGIN_SERVICE_MAP. Last week, I've been writing some managed code where I wanted to use the same pattern based on the System.IServiceProvider...(read more)

Sky's the limit...

Franci Penov — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 19:42:00 GMT

...or rather, 5GB is the limit on SkyDrive. :-) Plus, it's now available in 38 markets. Oh, and I should probably mention it's not a Beta anymore. For more details, head on the the SkyDrive team blog ....(read more)

Enablilng dragging in Canvas, v3.5 edition

Franci Penov — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 05:21:00 GMT

About a year ago I posted a class implemented couple of dependency properties you could attach to a Canvas and it's children and allowed dragging. The DPs were working quite well with any visual element inside the Canvas, including the standard controls...(read more)

Yahoo! Mail Web Service - interesting business model

Franci Penov — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 07:15:00 GMT

Dare posted some thoughts on the limitations of the new Yahoo! Mail Web Service . One thing he missed to mention though, is how that Web Service ties into Yahoo! Mail subscription model: "Yahoo! Mail offers an incentive for developers to build applications...(read more)

IObjectWithBrowserSiteImpl - base template for IE BHO or toolbars

Franci Penov — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 04:55:00 GMT

If you want to extend IE with a browser helper object or a toolbar , you need to implement IObjectWithSite interface. ATL has a basic IObjectWithSiteImpl<> template that helps a bit. Most BHOs and toolbars also subscribe to the browser events. ATL...(read more)

Enabling dragging in Canvas, part 2

Franci Penov — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 23:36:00 GMT

Update: There were some bugs in the code, which caused funny behavior with elements that have a render transform applied to them. I've updated the code below to fix these. In part 1 we covered how the dragging behavior will be attached to the Canvas object....(read more)

Incoming posts

Franci Penov — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 06:27:00 GMT

Here's short list of topics I am planning to write about in the next month after I finsh the CanvasDragHelper (and if I can find the time). I am going to use this post as a simple survey to see what people would like to see first. Of course, I might not...(read more)

Enabling dragging in canvas

Franci Penov — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 09:20:00 GMT

When developing UI, most of the time we want the controls nicely sized, ordered and aligned automatically. But sometimes it's just fun to put them free floating and be able to push them around. The Canvas panel allows for absolute positioning of the controls...(read more)

Windows Live Toolbar build 130

Franci Penov — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 08:08:00 GMT

We just released the latest build of Windows Live Toolbar. There are no new features in this release, it's fucosed mostly on stability and performance improvements. If you use the toolbar, I'd suggest you upgrade. And if you're not using WLT, well, be...(read more)

ASP.NET Ajax 1.0 RTW

Franci Penov — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 18:02:00 GMT

ASP.NET Ajax 1.0 (formerly "Atlas") has been released to the web. You can read more about the framework and the control toolkit at http://ajax.asp.net (including some really nice viedeo demos), or grab the bits from here and the toolkit from here ....(read more)

Goodbye, Max!

Franci Penov — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 12:16:00 GMT

This is a long overdue post. Couple of months ago Microsoft Max was closed. I was too busy with the transition to the new stuff I am working currently, though, so I neglected to post anything about this. The time I spent on Max was full of fun (great...(read more)

Windows Live Writer Beta announced

Franci Penov — Sun, 13 Aug 2006 18:19:00 GMT

Grab the bits from here . For more details go to Writer Zone . Posted using Windows Live Writer (Beta)...(read more)

Goodbye, Indigo! Hello, Max!

Franci Penov — Wed, 04 Jan 2006 20:24:00 GMT

The three years I worked on WCF were a fun ride, but it's time for me to move on to other challenges. Starting tomorrow I am leaving the Indigo team and moving on to the Max team as a dev.

Endpoints configuration

Franci Penov — Fri, 18 Mar 2005 23:20:00 GMT

When you write self-hosted Indigo application, you need to define your endpoints yourself. You can do this through your code; however, every time you decide to change your binding or add new endpoint, you'll have to recompile your application. Or you can do it through your config file.

Here's a sample self-hosted Indigo application. To keep the post shorter, I skipped over the service contract and the service implementation.

ServiceHost<TestService> testService = null;
testService = new ServiceHost<TestService>();
testService.BaseAddresses.Add(new Uri("http://localhost/TestService"));
testService.BaseAddresses.Add(new Uri("net.tcp://localhost/TestService"));
testService.Open();

Note that I add two base addresses for my service host. This is not necessary to get your endpoints to work, so forget about these for now. Here's how to define your endpoint in the config file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<configuration>
<system.serviceModel>
    <services>
      <service serviceType="TestService">
        <endpoint address="http://localhost/Test/Service" bindingSectionName="basicProfileBinding" contractType="ITestService" />
      </service>
    </services>
</system.serviceModel>
</configuration>

This will add one endpoint to your service listening at http://localhost/Test/Service using the BP 1.0 binding. If you want to add different bindings, you can add more endpoints:

<endpoint address="WSProfile" bindingSectionName="wsProfileBinding" contractType="ITestService" />
<endpoint address="TCPTransport" bindingSectionName="netProfileTcpBinding" contractType="ITestService" />

Now your service will listen on multiple endpoints with different bindings for each of them.

Notice that for the last two endpoints, I didn't specify full address. Instead, I specified relative address. Indigo will match the transport defined by the endpoint binding to the base addresses I added in the code that use the same protocol scheme. Thus, the WSProfile endpoint will listen at http://locahost/TestService/WSProfile address and the TCPTransport endpoint will listen at net.tcp://localhost/TestService/TCPTransport address.

That's enough for this post. Go ahead and experiment with your endpoint config. And in the next post I'll show you how to configure your service behavior through config.

Indigo CTP is out there!

Franci Penov — Wed, 16 Mar 2005 21:37:00 GMT

Indigo CTP is out there! Well, at least for the MSDN subscribers. Go grab the bits from http://msdn.microsoft.com/subscriptions/default.aspx. If you also want documentation and samples, you'll need the WinFX SDK - http://winfx.msdn.microsoft.com/ as well.

Go play with your new toys and don't forget to tell us what you do like, what you don't like and what plain sucks.