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Jon Flanders and I coauthored an article on BizTalk Services that just went live on the MSDN Magazine web site . We begin the article by discussing ESB's and the trends towards SaaS, and then we describe how BizTalk Services embodies the best of these different worlds through what Microsoft likes to...
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One of the many new WCF features in Visual Studio 2008 SP1 is a mechanism to control whether the built-in WCF test host application (WcfSvcHost.exe) should automatically launch when debugging other projects in a solution. Prior to this release, there was no way to control this without disabling WcfSvcHost...
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My latest Service Station column is now online -- it's called WCF Addressing In-Depth . It starts out by reviewing WCF addressing fundamentals and then it quickly dives into IIS addressing considerations, multiple endpoints, unique vs. shared addresses, logical vs. physical addresses, addressing headers...
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One of the most common questions I get while teaching WCF is "how does WCF stack-up against the existing distributed technology stacks (ASMX, WSE, COM+, .NET Remoting) in terms of performance and throughput?" This whitepaper , written by Saurabh Gupta, offers some answers. [Via Paul Andrew ] I love the...
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My latest Service Station column recently hit the Web on the MSDN Magazine site -- it's called WCF Messaging Fundamentals -- it covers the ins-and-outs of lower-level WCF message processing. It starts by explaining the .NET 3.0 updates to System.Xml that allow for multiple byte-level representations...
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Make sure you check out Kenny's post here . He discusses an issue with the base MessageEncodingBindingElement and provides the boilerplate code that you must write any time you write a subclass. And this issue may not be possible to fix in the next release.
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One of the articles I mentioned here just shipped in the December issue of MSDN Magazine (see the Service Station column) and it's now online for public consumption. Enjoy. I wrote a sequel to this piece that specifically covers the WCF guidance package in more detail -- it should hit the site in the...
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.NET Framework version 3.0 officially shipped last week. You can download the RTM bits here . You can see the WCF team is a somewhat insane with happiness over on Channel 9 . ;-) Congrats to the team for shipping a great product.
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Pluralsight is holding a special event -- Building Connected Systems with BizTalk Server 2006 R2 -- on December 4-8 in Kirkland, WA focused on the next release of BizTalk Server, which brings some compelling new features to Connected Systems development. It seems so much is happening in the Connected...
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Next time you stop by the Service Station , you'll find my latest column . It's titled Serialization in Windows Communication Foundation . It compares the ins-and-outs of the three supported WCF serializers --XmlSerializer, DataContractSerializer, and NetDataContractSerializer -- including the differences...
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I will be speaking at VSLive! Las Vegas next week on Wednesday, June 21st. I'll be delivering the pre-conference workshop on Programming Windows Communication Foundation . Both Keith and Fritz are also on the speaker roster for this event -- should be fun!
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You can download the WCF extensibility demos I walked through during today's Webcast from here .
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Kirk has organized a suite of Web Services Webcasts that will be delivered this month on MSDN . You'll find sessions on ASMX 2.0, WSE 3.0, and a bunch on WCF scheduled throughout June. I'll be giving my Webcast on Extending WCF tomorrow morning at 8:00am PST. See you there !
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I'm going to be speaking at Microsoft Architect Connections next Tuesday at the Omni Los Angeles California Plaza. It's a *free* single day event focused on "Enabling the Service Oriented Enterprise". Kirk Allen Evans and Wolf Gilbert organized the event, and they've rounded up an interesting speaker...
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I recently wrote an article on the various serialization options in WCF (which will soon be published in MSDN Magazine ). It focuses on the differences between XmlSerializer, DataContractSerializer (DCS), and NetDataContractSerializer, their programming models, tool support, and when to use one vs. the...
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