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WFC is well known to be brilliant at SOAP, and fans of WCF may be aware that in version 3.5 may be aware of the cool new features. But the rest of us (the REST of us, haha, I'm so funny)  may not know that it addresses in a simple and flexible way other scenarios- that is, serving XML or JSON data off simple Urls in a REST ...

I never really got that excited about Silverlight 1.0, mainly because whilst it had a great core graphics engine and did video streaming very well, it's feature set was just not rich enough to make it really useful to applications that demanded deep functionality. One of the features that was clearly lacking was connectivity; you could not ...

There are several blog posts out there that cover the subject of how to consume JSON enabled services from Javascript using ASP.net AJAX. Having scouted around the usual suspects, I think the best article is by Fritz Onion here: http://www.pluralsight.com/blogs/fritz/archive/2008/01/31/50121.aspx That said, I haven't found it all plain ...

This is really a note to self, as I have a habit of forgetting the numerous issues I have overcome and feel my blog can be a great repository for such information, as it may also assist someone else out there. I haven't been as rigorous with this as I should have recently. Well, for a long time actually! Anyway, quite a simple one really, but ...

Overview of WCF architecture Figure 1 illustrates the generic architecture WCF employs for all services. Figure 1 - General WCF Architecture The outer service represents the AppDomain of the service. A WCF service consists of contracts (data, fault and service contracts), a service instance (implementation) which is the implementation of a ...

By default, Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) uses the DataContractSerializer to serialize and deserialize XML in a service, but this serialization mechanism can be replaced to use the XmlSerializer. The following article on MSDN covers this in more detail: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms733901.aspx Whilst using the Data ...

Here at Conchango we have community days every six weeks where we get together to discuss common work interests. As a .Net Architect, one of the core communities I participate in is the .Net community. At our last community day, I presented on Windows Communication Foundation, a technology I have been working with in anger now for over a year. ...

A couple of weeks ago I pinged Paulo for some help about a WCF service I was writing – he solved the problem I was having and replied that he liked the unit testing pattern I was using for starting the WCF service and couldn't believe he didn't think of it. So I thought I'd blog it, just in case anyone else was interested. ...

When I first gained knowledge that Microsoft were developing "Indigo" well over two years ago, I must confess, I missed the point. I first saw demos of WCF at a conference around that time, and my initial reaction was "show me something I can't do already". And yet three months into developing with WCF and I can't stop ...

IntroductionLast June, my collegue Howard van Rooijen blogged on the need for continuous education in the .Net development world.This blog points out one very true fact in the Microsoft development space right now; technologies are diverging and becoming more and more specialized to meet specific needs. As Howard points out, this means as ...