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So how far has Microsoft reached with its Oslo vision and what is the future of BizTalk? This was a common question amongst various people I met during Tech-Ed 2k8 in Florida a couple of weeks ago. I tried to extract as much as I could from Microsoft around this topic. Oliver Sharp (general manager, connected systems division) and David Chappell ...

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. ...

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 ...