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Self hosting an ADO.NET data service

All the samples I’ve seen for ADO.NET Data Services show hosting the service in IIS.  This is a natural choice, especially considering the rich hosting environment IIS provides and the tooling support provided by Visual Studio.  However, it Read More...
Posted Monday, August 31, 2009 5:23 PM by rickrain | 0 Comments

ASP.NET Web Services to WCF services: Answering the question - Why?

Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is the platform for building distributed applications. Developers are usually eager to adopt the latest of any technology because, well, it’s the latest. There’s an element of coolness associated with building systems Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 15, 2009 12:31 PM by rickrain | 0 Comments
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WCF Instancing, Concurrency, and Throttling – Part 3

In part 1 and 2 , I talked about instancing and concurrency. In this post, the 3 rd and final post on this subject, I’m going to show an example of how you can use throttling to achieve optimal throughput for a service. But first… What is throttling? Read More...
Posted Friday, June 26, 2009 2:06 PM by rickrain | 0 Comments
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WCF Instancing, Concurrency, and Throttling – Part 2

From a developers perspective, code is either thread-safe or it is not. WCF will assume your service is not thread-safe unless you tell it otherwise by applying the ConcurrencyMode behavior. Your options for concurrency are Single (default), Multiple, Read More...
Posted Wednesday, June 17, 2009 9:19 AM by rickrain | 1 Comments
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WCF Instancing, Concurrency, and Throttling – Part 1

Building distributed systems using WCF has so many advantages. One of the things I hear consistently from customers is that it allows them to focus their development efforts on writing business logic code and less on having to write “plumbing” code. Still, Read More...
Posted Monday, June 15, 2009 4:30 PM by rickrain | 1 Comments
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Making asynchronous service calls from a WinForm client

It’s well known that long blocking calls in the main user interface (UI) thread of a WinForm client application should be avoided. As users, we certainly get annoyed when the application stops responding. Yet, even today, we see this over-and-over again Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 18, 2009 11:35 AM by rickrain | 0 Comments
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Base addresses and IIS/WAS hosted services

If you have ever hosted a WCF service in IIS/WAS then you know that the .svc file for your service is the base address.  For example, if you create a web site project called MyService using the WCF Service template, then your base address for that Read More...
Posted Saturday, August 23, 2008 1:37 AM by rickrain | 1 Comments
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Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1

Now available here . My installation took about 2 hours and 15 minutes to download and install.  Make sure you set aside some time for updating your development machine. In this post, I am going to talk about some (not all) of the features I particularly Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 14, 2008 9:42 AM by rickrain | 1 Comments
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Preventing the WCF Service Host from launching in Visual Studio 2008

One of the great new features of Visual Studio 2008 is the new tools for WCF developers.   No longer is it necessary to code up your own test host and test client applications to test your service.   This functionality is provided for you automatically Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 14, 2008 7:47 PM by rickrain | 1 Comments
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