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Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for 2010

Yesterday I received mail from Toby Richards with the title “Congratulations 2010 Microsoft MVP!”. This means that Microsoft grants me this title as a Microsoft community contributor for another year. The mail is pretty flattering: “ This award is given...

Posted to Alex Thissen Weblog Build 1.15.10.1971 by Alex Thissen on 07-02-2010

Extracting files from an MSI package

Reminder to self, as I have searched for this too many times: How to extract files from an MSI file without actually installing it: msiexec /a c:\downloads\WCFRestStarterKit.msi /qb TARGETDIR=c:\RESTStarterKit Run this from an elevated command prompt...

Posted to Alex Thissen Weblog Build 1.15.10.1971 by Alex Thissen on 06-17-2010

Filed under: Windows OS, Tools and Utilities

WCF Extensibility part 5: Make your endpoints behave

In the previous post we looked at an operation behavior that applied the operation formatter to a particular operation description. Because this is default behavior for all operations in the interface defined, we will make life a little easier on us to...

Posted to Alex Thissen Weblog Build 1.15.10.1971 by Alex Thissen on 08-25-2009

Filed under: Gaming, Protocols, .NET FX 3.5 SP1, WCF

WCF Extensibility part 4: Applying formatting to operations

In the previous part we inspected the way you can influence the transition from a service operation to a WCF Message object. This was accomplished with an implementation of the IClientMessageFormatter interface, in our case the SourceRconOperationFormatter...

Posted to Alex Thissen Weblog Build 1.15.10.1971 by Alex Thissen on 08-21-2009

WCF Extensibility part 3: Formatting operations

Time to get serious and drill down into the first area of the big picture. We are going to take a look at “operation formatting”, which is roughly located in the highlighted area. One of the crucial parts of the WCF channel layer is the way...

Posted to Alex Thissen Weblog Build 1.15.10.1971 by Alex Thissen on 08-21-2009

Filed under: Gaming, Protocols, .NET FX 3.5 SP1, WCF

WCF Extensibility part 2: The big picture

Before I drill down into each of the smaller parts of the client-side channel stack implementation, I want to sketch out an overview of some of the moving parts of the channel layer. This picture is by no means complete, and I will probably revisit it...

Posted to Alex Thissen Weblog Build 1.15.10.1971 by Alex Thissen on 08-20-2009

Filed under: Gaming, Protocols, .NET FX 3.5 SP1, WCF

WCF Extensibility part 1: background on game server protocols

Talking to game servers There are various kinds of multiplayer games that allow you to battle against other gamers. I’ll focus on the First Person Shooters (FPS) and Real Time Strategy (RTS) games and skip the (Massive Multiplayer Online) Role Playing...

Posted to Alex Thissen Weblog Build 1.15.10.1971 by Alex Thissen on 08-17-2009

Filed under: Visual Studio 2008, .NET FX 3.5 SP1, WCF

Windows Communication Foundation extensibility to the max

Last week I visited Microsoft at the Redmond campus and spent the larger part of the week with the Windows Communication Foundation and Workflow Foundation team. I spoke with a lot of the team members and managed to get good insights into the things to...

Posted to Alex Thissen Weblog Build 1.15.10.1971 by Alex Thissen on 08-17-2009

Filed under: Protocols, .NET FX 3.5 SP1, WCF

StackOverflow DevDays 2009

Most of you must know the community site StackOverflow.com . But did you know that StackOverflow is also organizing the StackOverflow DevDays ? “A full day of inspiration and learning for developers brought to you by the team behind StackOverflow.com...

Posted to Alex Thissen Weblog Build 1.15.10.1971 by Alex Thissen on 08-06-2009

Catching the .NET Service Bus part 1: Exposing a service on the bus

The last couple of evenings I spent some time getting familiar with the .NET Services and the Service Bus in particular. Here is a story of how I got my sample service to be available on the .NET Service Bus. I assume that you are familiar with the .NET...

Posted to Alex Thissen Weblog Build 1.15.10.1971 by Alex Thissen on 07-21-2009

Filed under: .NET FX 3.5 SP1, .NET Services, WCF

Another year of MVP

Thanks to the community for appreciating my efforts enough to have Microsoft let me be Most Valuable Professional for another year. A bit late in reporting this. I guess my new job was keeping me occupied. Hopefully lots of articles and conference talks...

Posted to Alex Thissen Weblog Build 1.15.10.1971 by Alex Thissen on 07-10-2009

Bye Class-A, hello Achmea

Today was my last day as an employee of Class-A . Some two months ago I started talking with Achmea about a position there. We were both convinced that there would be real nice opportunities. I have decided to take them up on the offer and will be joining...

Posted to Alex Thissen Weblog Build 1.15.10.1971 by Alex Thissen on 06-30-2009

Filed under: Personal

Developer Days 2009

Last week Microsoft The Netherlands held another great edition of the Developer Days. With a fantastic line-up of speakers and a smooth organization I guess everyone must have enjoyed it. I know I had a good time and hope you did as well. Thanks to those...

Posted to Alex Thissen Weblog Build 1.15.10.1971 by Alex Thissen on 06-02-2009

Filed under: Conferences, ASP.NET 2.0, .NET FX 2.0, Tools and Utilities, Community, Debugging, Oslo

Do you have an ASP.NET production problem?

At the end of the month I will present at the Developer Days . One of my sessions is about ASP.NET debugging in production(-like) situations. To demonstrate several tools and techniques I have prepared some cases that I encountered at various companies...

Posted to Alex Thissen Weblog Build 1.15.10.1971 by Alex Thissen on 05-07-2009

Using Unity to do poor man’s tracing

For this post I will assume you are familiar with Dependency Injection, Inversion of Control and Unity. There are a couple of tutorials out there that show you the basics of all of these. OK, say you have got a class Widget that others depend upon, and...

Posted to Alex Thissen Weblog Build 1.15.10.1971 by Alex Thissen on 03-25-2009

Filed under: C# 3.0, Unity, Enterprise Library

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