augustus 2009 - Posts

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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...