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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...
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The new XML API that comes with Linq to XML has some peculiar ways of handling the XML declaration (aka the XML prolog). Take a look at this sample: Process [] processes = Process .GetProcesses(); XDocument document = new XDocument ( new XDeclaration ( "1.0" , "utf-8" , "true"...
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The WCF "Orcas" release (the WCF from .NET Framework 3.5 aka WCF 2.0) makes it so much easier to use your WCF service in conjunction with ASP.NET AJAX (formerly known as 'Atlas'). Before Orcas you would build a AJAX enabled (web) service by adding the [ScriptService] attribute to the service...
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A couple of weeks ago I was invited to participate in the IT-Boxing event that took place last thursday, March 6th in Sofia, Bulgaria. The IT-Boxing event is a one-night competition, organized by the Bulgarian Association of Software Developers (BASD), in which a couple of teams battle to be the best...
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Syndication Syndication is becoming more and more popular. In essence, it is just some form of representation of data, and not only applicable to weblogs and news items. The .NET Framework 3.5 (WCF in particular) comes with a syndication API that allows providing and constructing new RSS or ATOM feeds...
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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...
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On June 13th and 14th I will be speaking at the Developer Days 2007 in Amsterdam, together with a lot of renowned national and international speakers . My talk is entitled " Applied Linq " and will cover Linq beyond the basics and give an impression of how Linq can be applied in "everyday" situations...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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.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...
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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...
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The .NET Framework 3.5 build 3.5.20209 was released earlier this morning as part of the Visual Studio Orcas March 2007 CTP. Find the downloads here: Visual Studio Code Name "Orcas" March 2007 CTP (Self-extracting Install) Visual Studio Code Name "Orcas" March 2007 CTP Team Foundation Server (Self-extracting...