Suman Chakrabarti - SharePoint and ASP.NET blog : WCF

Working on my first WPF/WCF app for a customer...

Suman Chakrabarti — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 04:48:00 GMT

This is the first app that I get to work on for a customer that uses WPF and WCF. I'm finding the XML to be a bit cumbersome. Although the tools do help you get things right with WPF, I think the WCF tools are complicated.

I believe the next steps for these tools should be some updated tools for network monitoring, client and server certificate management, and some authentication test tools. It seems like every time I build a WCF app, I get stuck trying to figure out why the connection isn't authenticating properly...eh, probably lack of experience.

Anyways, What I've found in addition to it is an API for DirectShow for .NET. This API enables my .NET app to get video from the computer's camera and capture an image.

Ahh, after quite a few months on a tough project, It's great to write a technical blog again...

Presentation at CodeCamp Pittsburgh

Suman Chakrabarti — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 18:47:48 GMT

I presented a Silverlight 1.0/2.0 demonstration yesterday at CodeCamp and it went quite well. Most importantly, it compiled; hey, that's half the battle.

The talk started out about how POX is not truly a ReST service because POX services are not usually provided as post-able services that control and manage information processing. With POX services, the idea is really to share the information with the user interface. So, I put together a service that provided customer order information from the AdventureWorks catalog. The information was provided in JSON format to the front end Silverlight 1.0 and 2.0 interface.

The Silverlight 1.0 portion of the demo went really fast, mainly because I kept the JavaScript in code snippets so I wouldn't end up debugging any of it. The Silverlight 2.0 piece took some time because I had to write all the code from scratch because I forgot to save the code in snippets. It did look like I knew what I was doing, though.

Anyways, thanks to Mike Snell, Craig Oaks, and Dave Hoerster for hosting CodeCamp! It was a fun time and I got to eat burritos.

Presenting at Pittsburgh Code Camp - WCF POX/ReST Services with Silverlight 1.0 and 2.0

Suman Chakrabarti — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:37:00 GMT

I'm speaking at Pittsburgh's Code Camp on April 12th located at University of Pittsburgh's Sennott Square. I'll be presenting POX services using WCF and ReST (although many will agree that POX is not truly ReST) to supply data to a Silverlight 1.0 application and I will use the same services with a Silverlight 2.0 application.