January 2008 - Posts

MySpace does WCF
31 January 08 08:12 PM | justinjsmith | 2 Comments   

My friend Vittorio has posted that MySpace will be talking about WCF at Mix 2008 ( see it here ). This promises to be a good session! Read More...

Filed under: Syndication, WCF, .NET Framework 3.5, REST, Web Programming with WCF

Life of a WCF Demo, Part 1
22 January 08 03:24 PM | justinjsmith | 3 Comments   

I thought it might be mildly interesting to document the lifecycle of a demo. Over the next week or so I have to design, build, and deploy a demo that shows off some of the web-centric features of WCF in the .NET Framework 3.5. First, let me state the Read More...

Filed under: Orcas, Syndication, WCF, .NET Framework 3.5, REST, Web Programming with WCF, JSON, "ASP.NET AJAX Integration"

PictureServices and BizTalk Services
18 January 08 04:47 PM | justinjsmith | 2 Comments   

Previous posts have talked a bit about PictureServices. Now I'd like to run through what it took to bring PictureServices to the BizTalk Services. I've talked a bit in other posts about BizTalk Services, but it has some interesting and very useful messaging Read More...

Filed under: Orcas, Syndication, WCF, Services in the Cloud, BizTalk Services, REST, Web Programming with WCF, BizTalk.NET Services

XML namespace declarations in SyndicationFeed objects
16 January 08 01:12 AM | justinjsmith | 2 Comments   

Following on the heels of Steve Maine's post about namespaces in Syndication objects (Feeds, items, etc.), I thought it wise to plug the new stuff in PictureServices . At the moment, PictureServices implements SLE (Simple List Extensions), and does a Read More...

Filed under: Syndication, WCF, .NET Framework 3.5, REST, Web Programming with WCF

PictureServices updated to VS 2008 RTM
14 January 08 07:18 PM | justinjsmith | 4 Comments   

Today I updated PictureServices to work with the RTM release of Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5 (what a mouthful). My testing rigor for this release was less than perfect. Please let me know if you find any bugs. For what it's worth, the Read More...

Filed under: Orcas, Syndication, WCF, .NET Framework 3.5, REST, Web Programming with WCF

PictureServices status update
14 January 08 09:13 AM | justinjsmith | 1 Comments   

I've received several mails about PictureServices and RTM. As some of you know, the Syndication API changed before RTM. The were subtle, but they did have an impact on the Picture Services project. Specifically, the simple list extensions part of Picture Read More...

Filed under: Orcas, WCF, .NET Framework 3.5, REST, Web Programming with WCF

Random Post: Search Server Express
08 January 08 11:10 AM | justinjsmith | 1 Comments   

This isn't my normal area of interest, but I found this page on microsoft.com fairly interesting. It's a free search server (sort of like basic sharepoint is free) http://www.microsoft.com/enterprisesearch/serverproducts/searchserverexpress/default.asp Read More...

Filed under: Search