PDC Bloggers Christian Weyer

WSCF Tool For WCF on CodePlex

Christian Weyer — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 18:19:48 GMT

Christian Weyer writes "...we invite the community and everybody interested to participate in WSCF.blue development over at its new CodePlex home. Currently, there are three people trying to contribute to WSCF.blue..."

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InDepthTalk.net : Topics : Windows Communication Foundation

Cache as cache can! Velocity in da house

Christian Weyer — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 21:04:13 GMT

Christian Weyer writes "About time! Until now I have been using solutions like memcached and was quite comfortable with it. Now the big house itself offers the first CTP of a distrbuted cache engine code-named Velocity. This is surely high on my list as in the past years...we have learned that caching is one of the most important factors for effective distributed applications..."

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TechEdBloggers.net : Editors Picks
TechEdBloggers.net : TechEd2008 : Tracks : Database Platform

How to Access WCF Message

Christian Weyer — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 20:10:55 GMT

Christian Weyer writes "If you want to access the message from a WCF service operations then you need to distinguish two cases..."

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InDepthTalk.net : Topics : Windows Communication Foundation
InDepthTalk.net : Topics : TechTalk

Cache as cache can! Velocity in da house

Christian Weyer — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 18:50:51 GMT

Christian Weyer writes "About time! Until now I have been using solutions like memcached and was quite comfortable with it. Now the big house itself offers the first CTP of a distrbuted cache engine code-named Velocity....I can already see our WCF-based apps running with Velocity. Let's try it..."

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InDepthTalk.net : Topics : SQL Server

Better approach to the design of services

Christian Weyer — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 00:16:50 GMT

Christian Weyer writes "...My opinion in the past few years always has been that object-oriented thinking is way misleading, to say the least, when trying to grok services: we needs to switch our viewpoint, our thinking to be *service-oriented*...."

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InDepthTalk.net : Topics : NET Framework

Introducing Contract First

Christian Weyer — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 00:14:24 GMT

Christian Weyer writes "....I'll demonstrate how today's views about Web services are somewhat wrong and how to fix this situation. I'll show you a totally different approach to Web services design and implementation than what you've experienced in the past years implied by major tools and platform vendors. There is one fact you can be sure about: Web services' potential is much higher...."

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InDepthTalk.net : Topics : NET Framework

9 Fixes in .NET Framework 3.0 SP1

Christian Weyer — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 22:36:48 GMT

Christian Weyer writes "I had several people asking me for some details about what exactly is fixed in 3.0 SP1 - so here is some more information....."

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InDepthTalk.net : Topics : NET Framework

ADO.NET Data Services and Databases

Christian Weyer — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 15:49:10 GMT

Christian Weyer writes "ADO.NET Data Services (aka 'Astoria') is not tied to a database, not tied to relational data and surely not tied to the ADO.NET Entity Framework"

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InDepthTalk.net : Topics : NET Framework
TechEdBloggers.net : TechEd2007 : Tracks : Developer Tools and Technologies
TechEdBloggers.net : TechEd2008 : Tracks : Developer Tools and Languages

How to access ADO.NET Data Services

Christian Weyer — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 19:53:40 GMT

Christian Weyer writes "You can access the SSDL...of your Astoria Data Service by appending $metadata to the base URL, like this....This metadata can e.g. be used to generate client-side code with the WebDataGen.exe tool"

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InDepthTalk.net : Topics : ASPNET AJAX
TechEdBloggers.net : TechEd2007 : Tracks : Developer Tools and Technologies
TechEdBloggers.net : TechEd2008 : Tracks : Developer Tools and Languages

ADO.NET Data Services InstanceContextMode

Christian Weyer — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 19:53:31 GMT

Christian Weyer writes "Astoria services are PerCall by default. A data service derives from WebDataService which looks like this:"

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InDepthTalk.net : Topics : ASPNET AJAX

Self-Hosting your ADO.NET Data Services

Christian Weyer — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 18:07:09 GMT

Christian Weyer writes "I managed to create a self-hosted Astoria service which (for this example) is hosted in a Console application....Easy! Now we have a self-hosted Astoria service."

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InDepthTalk.net : Topics : Visual Studio

Giving Birth to the WF MapperActivity

Christian Weyer — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 18:07:04 GMT

Christian Weyer writes "....had a lot fun building this baby: being able to have an activity to graphically map source and destination objects and properties and not having to resort to a CodeActivity. A little bit like the Biztalk Server mapping editor in a light version."

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InDepthTalk.net : Topics : Business Intelligence
TechEdBloggers.net : TechEd2007 : Tracks : Business Intelligence
TechEdBloggers.net : TechEd2008 : Tracks : Business Intelligence

Dealing with OS privilege issues in WCF Named Pipes scenarios

Christian Weyer — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 20:49:07 GMT

Christian Weyer writes "....Problems started to occur when I switched over the ASP.NET client application from Cassini....to running in IIS 7. The WCF Upload Service is still the same one, actually the process is still running. When hitting the UploadWeb with the browser and submitting data the ASP.NET app on the server side then tries to talk to the NP endpoint of my WCF service - but: bang!!!"

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TechEdBloggers.net : Editors Picks
InDepthTalk.net : Topics : Windows Communication Foundation
TechEdBloggers.net : TechEd2007 : Tracks : SOA and Web Services
TechEdBloggers.net : TechEd2008 : Tracks : SOA and Business Processes

New Features and Fixes for WCF in .NET 3.5

Christian Weyer — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 05:59:31 GMT

Christian Weyer writes "WCF in .NET 3.5 contains a new serializer for handling with JSON-based data. With the so called DataContractJsonSerializer we can serialize and deserialize JSON packets based on DataContract descriptions....I have come up with a simple sample. This is a DataContract of Google's SearchMash R&D site JSON format"

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InDepthTalk.net : Editors Picks
InDepthTalk.net : Topics : Windows Communication Foundation

Features and Fixes for WCF in .NET 3.5 - Expanded WS

Christian Weyer — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 00:09:08 GMT

Christian Weyer writes "....The WS-Policy version is controlled by a separate knob on the MEX behavior. For the sake of completeness, the full list of protocols for ws2007HttpBinding is listed below. Support in wsFederationHttpBinding is exactly the same but it uses WSS SAML Token Profile 1.1 for the IssuedToken."

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InDepthTalk.net : Topics : Windows Communication Foundation

Extending WCF Services Beyond HTTP with WAS

Christian Weyer — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 18:12:00 GMT

Christian Weyer writes "....If you want to provide robust WCF services through IIS 7.0, it is essential that you understand a new IIS feature called the Windows Process Activation Service (WAS). WAS is a fundamental underlying component of IIS 7.0 that makes it possible to host WCF services beyond HTTP and without having to install the whole IIS package...."

Bloggers : Christian Weyer
InDepthTalk.net : Topics : Windows Communication Foundation

Work Around for Problem with svcutil.exe in Orcas Beta 2

Christian Weyer — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 21:04:23 GMT

Christian Weyer writes "Looks like svcutil.exe in Orcas Beta 2 is not signed. To use it...."

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InDepthTalk.net : Topics : Visual Studio

WCF Interoperability: Flattening your WSDL

Christian Weyer — Sat, 12 May 2007 14:02:19 GMT

Christian Weyer writes "WCF is extremely extensible - and this extensibility has helped me out already several dozens of times. But then, WCF also makes the life of the common developer not always easier when caompared to the 'outdated' stacks - in fact, in some very popular situations and scenarios it may be a bit of a pain. You just need to know how to fix it. "

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InDepthTalk.net : Topics : Windows Communication Foundation

Let me save you time: powerful OperationContext object

Christian Weyer — Wed, 02 May 2007 17:15:44 GMT

Christian Weyer writes "In WCF, the powerful OperationContext.Current static property lives in thread-local storage. It gets pinned to the current thread before WCF dispatches to the user code. If code for a service operation - for whatever reasons - is spawning new threads"

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InDepthTalk.net : Topics : ASPNET

WCF Duplex Callbacks through NATs and Firewalls

Christian Weyer — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 14:26:13 GMT

Christian Weyer writes "...what can we do when we want to build a distributed solution based on Windows, based on .NET, based on WCF?....WCF has this neat feature of duplex channels and callback contracts. You can do duplex messaging in WCF over different transports, like TCP, Named Pipes and even HTTP."

Bloggers : Christian Weyer
InDepthTalk.net : Topics : Windows Communication Foundation