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It's been a long time since I last wrote a blog post; around six months to be exact. It's not that I have not been busy writing though. In April I began embarking on one of the hardest things I've ever done; writing a book with my co-author John Shaw. And now for a brief advertisement; the book is called ''Pro ADO.NET Data Services : Working ...

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. ...