August 2007 - Posts

old Schema designer and data grid editor
24 August 07 04:39 PM | Lifeng Lu | 0 Comments   

Two old designers in VS 2005 have been removed from Orcas product. There are several reasons why they are removed: 1, there will be a brand new schema designer built into VS. However, because of schedule issues, it is not in Orcas, but will be released Read More...

Side by side comparsion between svcutil and the service reference in VS
13 August 07 04:47 PM | Lifeng Lu | 0 Comments   

The Service Reference is new feature added into VS Orcas, so we don't have to use svcutil when using VS IDE. Here is the side by side comparsion table between svcutil and the service reference in Orcas: Svcutil command line VS service reference (.svcmap) Read More...

Filed under: WCF, .svcmap

How to generate Begin/End invocation pattern methods in web service proxies in VS 8+
08 August 07 04:47 PM | Lifeng Lu | 0 Comments   

It is a problem asked by some customers. They were using Begin/End invocation pattern to call web service asynchronously. Those async methods were generated in web proxies in Visual Studio 7.x, and when they are using wsdl.exe tool, but were gone when Read More...

Filed under: Async, ASMX

WCF tool extensiblity samples have shipped
02 August 07 11:35 AM | Lifeng Lu | 3 Comments   

The WCF tool in the Visual Studio exposes several layers of extensibility APIs. Those were built into the product to make a third party could extend the feature to make it easy to use in their special environment, or make the feature work in a third party Read More...

Passing DataTable across web/wcf services
01 August 07 01:46 PM | Lifeng Lu | 1 Comments   

Passing DataTable (without embeded into a dataset) across web services is supported in .Net 2.0 framework. However we found a bug in this area, which might affect using this feature with strong typed dataTable. For example, when a web service function Read More...

Filed under: WCF, ASMX