02 juli 2010
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 to exceptional technical community leaders who... Read More...
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17 juni 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. The target directory does not have to be created... Read More...
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25 augustus 2009
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 have the operation behaviors applied automatically... Read More...
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21 augustus 2009
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 class. Now it’s time to look at how to... Read More...
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21 augustus 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 that method invocations get transformed into WCF... Read More...
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20 augustus 2009
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 several times over the next couple of posts. It should... Read More...
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17 augustus 2009
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 Games (MMORPG and RPG). Usually the FPS and... Read More...
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17 augustus 2009
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 come in WCF/WF 4.0. I got a chance to talk to Nicolas... Read More...
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06 augustus 2009
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 and FogBugz”. The day will feature speakers like Joel... Read More...
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21 juli 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 Service Bus already; otherwise you can read some... Read More...
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10 juli 2009
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 will come from all the new stuff I will encounter... Read More...
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30 juni 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 their ranks as an architect. This means that... Read More...
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02 juni 2009
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 of you who attended any of my sessions. I have... Read More...
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07 mei 2009
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 where I troubleshooted applications. I thought it... Read More...
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25 maart 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 that you have an interface IWidget to loosen the... Read More...
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