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• Using WCF in the MessengerService

  I reworked the MessengerService to use WCF instead of hosting its own web services. The resulting code is a lot simpler and more powerful, thanks to the WCF library. Read More... Posted 07 November 2006 11:04 by john.rayner | 1 Comments Filed under: C# 2.0, WCF, .Net 3.0, Messenger, MSN Messenger Attachment(s): MessengerService2.1.zip

• Reflection on Generic Types (part 2)

  A while ago I posted a question about generic interfaces that ramined unanswered until Anthony supplied a neat solution. This got me thinking a bit further about reflection on generic types. Read More... Posted 02 November 2006 09:59 by john.rayner | 0 Comments Filed under: C# 2.0, CLR 2.0, Generics, Reflection

• WCF: Sending Collections Over the Wire

  Recently I needed to send a custom collection class as a response to a WCF call. I duly added the normal [DataContract] attribute and was rewarded with the following WCF error: Type 'MyCollection' is an invalid collection type since it has DataContractAttribute Read More... Posted 24 October 2006 10:00 by john.rayner | 2 Comments Filed under: C# 2.0, WCF, .Net 3.0

• Returning a DataTable over SqlContext.Pipe

  I was writing a SQLCLR C# stored proc and wanted to return some results which were held in a DataTable. Inconveniently, there is no built-in way of translating from System.Data class to Microsoft.SqlServer.Server classes. So I wrote something which does Read More... Posted 13 September 2006 17:43 by john.rayner | 4 Comments Filed under: C# 2.0, CLR 2.0, SQL Server 2005, SQLCLR Attachment(s): SqlPipeUtil.zip

• Reflection on Generic Types

  I really love Generics in .Net 2.0 - I think they're great. They remove a lot of that nasty casting to objects which we had to do in .Net 1.x and they generally improve type-safety. However, I recently hit a problem when trying to do some reflection against Read More... Posted 07 August 2006 18:04 by john.rayner | 2 Comments Filed under: C# 2.0, CLR 2.0