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What I've Been Up To

I've been away from blogging for a loong time so have some catching up to do. I spent most of last year building out the new Dallas Microsoft Technology Center while delivering customer engagements and working on a few side projects. The MTC build out
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Big week for Dallas MTC

This week is shaping up to be a big week for the Dallas MTC. Monday we have our official launch party where we expect 285 attendees from Micrsosoft and partners (we've been operational since 10/6 but we're now making it official). Then Tuesday thru Thursday
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Getting back into blogging

It's been over a year since I last blogged over on yassers.com. I'm trying to get back into it now and will move my blog back here to MSDN blogs. I know what you're thinking: "he moves around too much" and I agree with you :-) Not only am I moving my
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Blog moved

I've moved my web site and blog to yassers.com. The blog is at http://blog.yassers.com . Some of the more recent entries on this blog (the ones included in this blogs current RSS feed) are duplicated there as well.
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What Exactly Is BizTalk?

I now work as a Technology Architect at the Microsoft Technology Center in Austin which is part of the Microsoft Sales org. In this role I help customers understand how to architect solutions to their business problems/needs using Microsoft technologies.
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Living In Austin

On Saturday 6/17 I boarded a flight from Seattle to Austin and I didn't have a return ticket. You see, for family reasons I moved to Austin and joined the Microsoft Technology Center . The goal of the MTC is to help customers map their business problems
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More on the WCF RSS Sample

Last week we put up a sample named WCF RSS Toolkit on wcf.netfx3.com and I posted a sample service using it here . Since I wrote most of the toolkit’s code I thought I’d talk a bit about its goals, design and the future. There were two primary goals for
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WCF RSS Sample

Mark is looking for some sample code for the recently released WCF RSS Toolkit . I've put the readme up here . I won't repeat the whole readme here but here's a peek at the programming model. There are several shortcuts for feeds from databases and feeds
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WCF Custom Channel Ecosystem

Back in January, a few of us on the WCF team kicked off a side project dubbed "the channel ecosystem project". The goal is to create a community and an ecosystem around WCF custom channels. The first step was to make it easier for developers to build
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It's here

I came home today to find a large box waiting for me; it's my new iMac G5! This is the 20" intel dual core version and it's absolutely stunning. Now I must admit that this is my first Apple computer. My first computer was a Texas Instruments TI 99/4A
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Moving lots of data

Recently I've been getting lots of questions about moving large files (or lots of data) between a WCF service and client. The question comes in multiple forms, e.g. How do I send a file that's many GB in size from the service to the client? Should I use
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Meet the Channel Model: ICommunicationObject

A Common a State Machine Objects that deal with communication, e.g. sockets, usually present a state machine whose state transitions relate to allocating network resources, making or accepting connections, closing connections and aborting communication.
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WCF Architecture Overview

This is a document I wrote a while ago and has been sitting around waiting to be published. Well, it finally is! Enjoy.
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Looking for people who want to change the world

We have a few open positions on the Indigo (WCF) team for people who want to change the world. In this role, you would get the opportunity to really change how millions of developers write distributed applications (if you're a distributed app developer
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Meet the WCF Channel Model – Part 2

Most WCF developers won’t interact directly with channels or have to think about them much. The Service Model, WCF’s programming model, provides abstractions that layer on top of channels to give a “method and typed parameters” programming model. However,
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