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Dustin Metzgar and Sajay Antony, our performance developers, have all started up their blogs on...
Date: 01/05/2011
For quite a few times, I heard customers would hit this issue after installing .Net 3.5 patches or...
Date: 11/23/2010
We have just published the performance whitepaper for WF 4 at the following location:...
Date: 11/10/2010
This is not a new topic. But interestingly I could not find a good example on the web while I wanted...
Date: 02/20/2010
Customers reported the following WCF performance issue recently: · A WCF service over TCP or Named...
Date: 02/11/2010
Customers reported the following WCF performance issue recently: · A WCF client sends 10 requests...
Date: 02/10/2010
Recently I helped a customer with a few friends to debug a TimeoutException issue happened in their...
Date: 09/06/2009
It has been quite a while that I did not write anything. This is because I was fully focusing on WCF...
Date: 07/26/2009
WCF is a framework that is asynchronous inside out. Internally, asynchronous patterns are used to...
Date: 02/09/2009
This is not a new topic in the world of traditional web service usage. But I was still asked by...
Date: 02/08/2009
There are still 21 days to go until the PDC. Are you excited to attend those fascinating technical...
Date: 10/06/2008
Lately I have been quite busy working on .NET 4.0 which will be the next major side-by-side release...
Date: 09/07/2008
Introduction As mentioned in my last blog entry, for IIS-hosted WCF services, WCF holds the worker...
Date: 08/13/2008
Two Threads per Request In .NET 3.0 and 3.5, there is a special behavior that you would observe for...
Date: 04/21/2008
Here is some good news for people who are looking for WCF Security guidance. The Microsoft Patterns...
Date: 03/27/2008
In .NET 3.0, you would handle two different timeouts: · Binding.SendTimeout This is the timeout that...
Date: 03/10/2008
There are tons of good articles and blogs out there regarding how to use Visual Studio Team System...
Date: 12/04/2007
Kenny wrote an excellent blog entry to compare the three WCF encoders (Binary, MTOM, and Text) from...
Date: 11/14/2007
Introduction Ideally we should not need to pool WCF client proxies as I mentioned in my previous...
Date: 11/14/2007
In .NET 3.5, a new type WorkflowServiceHost is introduced to provide the integration of WF and WCF....
Date: 11/07/2007
Do you want to work on Microsoft's next generation of the distributed application framework? Do you...
Date: 11/07/2007
Introduction In .NET 3.0 SP1, which will be shipped together with .NET 3.5, there is significant...
Date: 10/26/2007
In order to provide symmetric programming model for the client-side as for the server-side, WCF...
Date: 10/25/2007
Sometimes you want to redirect users request to a different one when you want to retire old ones but...
Date: 09/18/2007
For backward compatibility, WCF supports easy server-side migration from ASMX to WCF. This is good...
Date: 09/17/2007
There are many ways to diagnose the performance of WCF applications. Here is a simple one that uses...
Date: 09/06/2007
I feel that it’s pretty handy to have a simple config-less IIS-hosted WCF service when I want to...
Date: 08/17/2007
When you are developing a WCF service with an HTTPS endpoint (i.e., you enabled Transport security),...
Date: 08/16/2007
Microsoft designed WCF seriously with all major basics taken into account: performance, security,...
Date: 08/10/2007
Kenny has a very good blog entry on this topic. I want to add some more points to this from...
Date: 08/10/2007
If you have a web-hosted service “simple.svc” under the virtual application “/simple”, you would...
Date: 08/01/2007
As promised, here I attach the sample code for the “SimpleStateMachineWorkflow” performance test. It...
Date: 07/06/2007
As promised, here I attach the sample code for the “EmptyWorkflow” performance test. It is not the...
Date: 07/06/2007
Saurabh Gupta, our performance Program Manager, published a white paper a few months ago. It...
Date: 05/11/2007
There are two different levels of security that you can use for WCF services: Message level and...
Date: 11/30/2006
People are always confused by these two IIS concepts, especially for the new IIS7/WAS. These are not...
Date: 11/22/2006
IIS7 has a modular design which allows you to selectively install components that are needed. This...
Date: 11/22/2006
What is IIS7? What is the difference between IIS6 and IIS7? Here are the simple answers: § IIS7 is a...
Date: 11/22/2006
Finally, we made it! .NET Framework 3.0 (was called "WinFX") is shipped today. Here is the download...
Date: 11/07/2006
On Windows XP, Internet Information Service (IIS) does not use HTTP.sys which is the HTTP driver...
Date: 10/19/2006
Question After upgrading WCF (or NetFx-3.0) from an older beta version to RC1, I get “Page Not...
Date: 09/09/2006
In my blog entry “ASP.NET Compatibility Mode”, I showed how to perform impersonation with ASP.NET....
Date: 05/18/2006
In Dmitry’s blog, he mentioned about how to write ASP.NET async pages with ASP.NET 2.0. Basically,...
Date: 05/07/2006
GREAT NEWS! The WinFX February CTP has just been released today and can be downloaded from here....
Date: 02/22/2006
Last week, there were some exciting announcements for WCF customers: 1) WCF Go Live release:...
Date: 01/22/2006
There are different mechanisms to perform custom initialization for hosted WCF services in an...
Date: 01/11/2006
Page Not Found (404) Error for WCF Service Hosted in IIS On Windows 2003 Server, after installing...
Date: 12/15/2005
Table of Contents: Introduction Hosting Environments · ASMX Services · WCF Services · Different...
Date: 11/14/2005