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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 ...

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 ...

I'm back from Holiday and getting going into the new year. For those of you .Net developers considering Microsoft certification exams, the following may be of interest: Exam 70-502 Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 - Windows Presentation Foundation. Expected to be released in February 2008. http://www.microsoft.com/learning/exams/70-502.mspx Exam ...

Message ordering is a key concept in a service orientated architecture. It is a key concept, because one of the core tenets of SOA is that a service must remain autonomous. In remaining autonomous, a service must be able to deal with any unexpected circumstance of messages sent to it, including the possibility of messages being received out of ...

WCF System.Net.WebException: The underlying connection was closed: The connection was closed unexpectedlyIf you get the above error when trying to return large numbers of items in a List<T> from a WCF service, then ensure you have set the following behaviour for the dataContractSerializer in both your client and service configuration ...

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 ...

I have been looking at the training materials for exam 70-529: Distributed Application Development with .net 2.0. However Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) in .net 3.0 is in use now, I wondered if a replacement exam on this is forthcoming. The answer seems to be "yes". This post indicates that a WFC Qualification was in the ...