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Saturday, May 31, 2008 1:15 PM

WCF Best Practices

In our conversations with customers and partners, questions related to the design and development best practices are quite common and WCF is not an exception. Some of these questions are very specific to a customer scenario but most of them are generic...
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Tuesday, May 27, 2008 1:12 PM

How can I disable WcfSvcHost?

When we create a WCF application using some of the built-in WCF project templates (such as WCF Service Library) in Visual Studio 2008, a project type Guid ( 3D9AD99F-2412-4246-B90B-4EAA41C64699 ) is added to the PropertyTypeGuids element in the project...
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Sunday, April 20, 2008 9:11 PM

WPF (70-502), WCF (70-503) and WF (70-504) Exams

As Gerry mentioned in his blog, WPF , WCF and WF exams went live on Monday last week. As you may already know, these are Technical Specialist (TS) level exams so they are added to your MCTS credentials. This is how the MCTS logo looks like when you add...
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Thursday, March 27, 2008 2:48 PM

NetNamedPipeBinding, Named Pipes and Cross-Machine Communication

In the WCF workshops and conversations we have with our customers, I have been asked a number of times whether NetNamedPipeBinding can be used for cross-machine communication. Although the WCF documentation says you can use NetNamedPipeBinding only for...
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Thursday, February 14, 2008 12:18 PM

WCF Exam 70-503

The WCF exam ( TS: Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 - Windows Communication Foundation [70-503] ) is getting closer to its release date as the exam development team and the subject matter experts are working on the final stages of the exam development. As...
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Saturday, January 26, 2008 8:55 AM

WCF Load Test Tool Published

Project Description from the project home page on CodePlex : "This tool takes a WCF trace file and a WCF client proxy, or a WCF interface contract, and generates a unit test that replays the same sequence of calls found in the trace file. The code generated...
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Friday, November 09, 2007 5:10 AM

DataContract Constructors in WCF

When svcutil.exe is used to generate the proxy for a WCF service, it creates a copy of the service contract (interface) and the data contracts used by that service contract. If you use the DataContractSerializer on the service (the default option), you...
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Tuesday, October 30, 2007 7:29 PM

Oslo: Practical Software Plus Services and SOA

Oslo is the code name for a set of technical investments from Microsoft that will help customers and developers in realising the full potential of SOA and software plus services. Oslo is not a single product. It is a multiprodct and multiyear effort and...
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Saturday, October 20, 2007 10:22 PM

Slides and Source Code for "Practical WCF Revisited"

As I wrote earlier , VBUG had their annual conference earlier this week where I presented the "Practical WCF Revisited" session. The content in this presentation was related to but not the same as the one I delivered earlier this year at the...
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Thursday, October 04, 2007 3:20 PM

VBUG Annual Conference 2007

VBUG are holding their annual conference on 17th and 18th of October at Microsoft Campus in Thames Valley Park . Various topics will be covered in the sessions but majority of the sessions are related to .NET Framework (2.0, 3.0, 3.5) and SQL Server 2005...
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