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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...
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...
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...
15 november 2008
Early thoughts on MEntity
Even though no details on MEntity have been revealed yet, here are my thoughts on MEntity and its place and purpose in the world of "Oslo". This current thinking has been fed by the discussions Paul Gielens and I had with Don Box. Here goes. A model and a DSL for the Entity Framework Don mentioned... Read More...
20 oktober 2008
Some notes on routing in classic ASP.NET web applications
Routing in .NET 3.5 SP1 differs from regular request handling in many ways. Here's a quick outline how routing works: Routes define some URL matching pattern and are configured/held in an ordered list accessible through RouteTable.Routes Incoming requests pass through the UrlRoutingModule that will... Read More...