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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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23 maart 2009
SDN Event 30th March 2009 in Driebergen
Next Monday, 30th of March there will be an SDN event in Driebergen, The Netherlands. The central theme of the event is Testing in software. I will be there talking about two test-related topics (descriptions in Dutch): Make your software more testable with Unity : ” Software schijnt beter testbaar... Read More...
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18 maart 2009
Disappearing testrunconfig dialog for Code Coverage
Ever had this happen: Whenever you need to make changes to the code coverage settings of a Visual Studio 2008 solution, the “testrunconfig” dialog simply disappears before you get a chance to edit any setting. I’m talking about this dialog: an clicking the item highlighted with the yellow marker. Martin... Read More...
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16 februari 2009
Quick tip on Visual Studio 2008 and UAC
On a Windows Vista (and presumably Windows Server 2008) that has User Account Control (UAC) enabled you are no longer able to drag and drop files from Windows Explorer into your VS solution. I always used this to quickly add files to a project. What a bummer. There are 2 workarounds: Copy or move the... Read More...
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28 augustus 2008
Workaround for missing "Edit WCF Configuration" menu option in Visual Studio
Sometimes when you have a clean install of Visual Studio 2005 or 2008 the context menu item "Edit WCF Configuration" for a app.config or web.config will not show. The picture above does show the menu item I'm talking about, but you may find that it is not there. Help is at hand: there is... Read More...
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17 juni 2007
Developer Days 2007: a blast
It took a couple of days to wind down again. The 2007 edition of the Dutch Developer Days were exciting and excellent. It was real nice to meet nearly everybody (or so it feels). I did get around to do both presentations on Linq and robotics. The Microsoft Robotics session was scheduled after all. So... Read More...
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22 april 2007
WPF Designer "Cider" in Visual Studio Orcas Beta 1
Visual Studio "Orcas" will have a new and improved WPF designer, codenamed "Cider ". I've been using the November 2006 CTP of Cider in Visual Studio 2005 up until now, which is adequate, but not feature complete by far. Furthermoew, development on the WPF extensions for Visual Studio 2005 is not continued... Read More...
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11 april 2007
More on Orcas+1 release
Just got some extra information about the plans for WCF and WF after the post Silver (which is in the Orcas timeframe) release. Here are two extra ideas that I picked up at the WCF+WF Orcas training. The other ones are mentioned in a previous post . Currently WF does not have a clear model on which data... Read More...
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11 april 2007
New things for WCF and WF and plans for after Orcas
Before we get to the point that WCF+WF Orcas (Silver) is released, some other WCF and WF related releases might see the day of light. There is the WCF LOB Adapter SDK, allowing you to speed up your development on custom channels, such as to a SAP server. I found that Sonu Arora has an entire blog full... Read More...
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11 april 2007
Workflow Foundation Rules in Orcas
Again, some background on where we are with rules in WF version 1 (in .NET FX 3.0): The Rules framework in WF allow you to define discrete and atomic rules using simple semantics. This makes it very approachable. WF Rules distinguish conditions (boolean evaluations) and rules (if-then-else semantics... Read More...
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11 april 2007
Going forward from WCF and WF version 1: Silver
Let's set the stage. Where are we now with .NET Framework 3.0 , and WCF and WF in particular? WCF in version 1 brought us a programming model and runtime, consisting of a Service model: the endpoints, bindings and contracts. This is where most of your code goes. Channel layer: does the messaging part... Read More...
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08 april 2007
Off to Redmond: WCF+WF in Orcas Deep Dive training
Tomorrow I'll leave for Microsoft, Redmond for an in-depth training on WCF and WF in Orcas training event. Paul Andrew blogged with an invitation to come join the Deep Dive training in Redmond. I applied and got invited. The training will focus on a lot of the new stuff in .NET FX 3.5, and will cover... Read More...
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05 maart 2007
SendActivity in Windows Workflow 3.5
.NET 3.5 might come with some new items for Windows Workflow. In the March 2007 CTP two new Activities make their appearance: SendActivity and ReceiveActivity. This blog post is about the SendActivity. The SendActivity is used to send and receive a message to a WCF endpoint. It's usage is fairly straightforward... Read More...
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04 maart 2007
WCF Library projects
Visual Studio Orcas changes the way WCF projects are organized. They are located under a different folder for project types: Windows Communications Foundation (yep, spelled out in full). It is still only one project template, still called WCF Service Library. If you think polar bears are cool, wait till... Read More...
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27 februari 2007
Linq support in Compact Framework 3.5
Tonight I did some more browsing through the January 2007 CTP version of Visual Studio "Orcas" and stumbled upon the .NET Compact Framework 3.5 . The .NET Compact FX 3.5 is first included in this CTP version. To my great surprise I discovered a System.Core.dll assembly was the one new assembly in the... Read More...
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