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Check out Kirk Allen Evans posting about how to create a Twitter client using its RESTful API and WCF. I'm a sucker for simplicity and this hits the spot. Read More...

Now that Essential WCF is out, we're seeing interest from many places. Rich, Chris and I were contacted by InformIT to do an interview and talk about the book. Separately , I'm hearing from readers looking to do big and small things with the technology. Read More...

Deploying a SOA requires a good registry for services, if not supporting repository. Microsoft has big plans for both and other vendors, like SOA Software and AmberPoint , have products in the market today. If you're game for building your own, there Read More...

The SyndicationFeed class from System.ServiceModel.Syndicatation makes it easy to work with feeds and extensions. The code below uses an RSS feed from space.live.com to show photo albums on a page. Of course there are many ways to consume RSS with and Read More...

I’ve been experimenting with the consumer Web API (Amazon, flickr, Google, facebook, Virtual Earth) and WOW is it easy! Takes just a few hours to learn an API, register for dev keys and start building apps. Samples at steveres.com . Funny how easy things Read More...

Curious about Microsoft’s strategy of Software Plus Services (S+S)? The S+S Strategy moniker actually refers to local + cloud-based software, but S+S sounds much better. For a simple example of S+S, look no further than the new Zune. The devices are cool, Read More...