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"Add service reference" is disabled
In Visual Studio 2008 you can right-click a project and choose for "Add service reference" to create a proxy class for your web service. WCF preferred, of course. But for some reason, the Visual Studio team disabled it when you're in debug...
Posted: Mar 28 2008, 09:14 PM by Dennis van der Stelt | with 2 comment(s)
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Hosting a WCF service in a Windows Service
In my last post I explained how you could use WCF and MSMQ to respond to messages asynchronously. We've setup a class library with our service, a console application for our host and a console application for our client. In this post I'll explain...
Posted: Feb 28 2008, 09:52 AM by Dennis van der Stelt | with 3 comment(s)
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WCF and MSMQ
It's been a while since I blogged about one of my favorite topics, Windows Communication Foundation. In this article I'll explain how you can use MSMQ with WCF to really process messages asynchronously. It's unbelievable how easy this is....
Posted: Feb 28 2008, 09:52 AM by Dennis van der Stelt | with 7 comment(s)
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Mobile development
Two weeks ago Mike Schroepfer, a Mozilla developer, announced that they'll launch a version of Firefox that can be run mobile devices. If you own a Windows Mobile device, you're probably craving for a better browsing experience, just like I am...
Posted: Oct 24 2007, 12:13 PM by Dennis van der Stelt | with no comments
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Class-A Summer Classes become Winter Classes
As I really enjoyed giving the Summer Classes a few weeks ago, the first ever real .NET 3.5 class world wide, I'm really pleased to announce the Winter Classes. Although the date hasn't even been set, we're planning it around the end of January...
Posted: Oct 04 2007, 09:08 AM by Dennis van der Stelt | with 2 comment(s)
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WCF serving AJAX troubleshooting
I hope in the RTM you'll get more help solving your WCF Ajax problems then I currently get, because I'm getting mad from time to time. In my quest for getting things to work, I learned some stuff I wanted to share. Read: have a checklist for myself...
Posted: Aug 14 2007, 03:15 PM by Dennis van der Stelt | with no comments
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Just to late: WF & WCF beta 2 samples
Arrgh, these come out just a day or two too late. But that's life when you're always one step ahead. ;) WF & WCF samples http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=2611a6ff-fd2d-4f5b-a672-c002f1c09ccd&displaylang=en&tm...
Posted: Aug 11 2007, 07:16 PM by Dennis van der Stelt | with 1 comment(s)
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Summer Class .NET 3.5, preparation
As said before , we're currently on location at the "middle of nowhere", creating material for the upcoming .NET 3.5 Summer Class . We're having a blast, creating slides and hands on labs until way past midnight. I'm busy with the...
Posted: Aug 07 2007, 11:58 PM by Dennis van der Stelt | with 1 comment(s)
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WCF Test Client
Two things that should've been there since WCF v1. My colleague Alex Thissen already blogged about the WCF Library projects and the service host that comes with it. In beta 2 there's a new test client that'll connect to your service and will...
Posted: Aug 07 2007, 02:48 PM by Dennis van der Stelt | with 10 comment(s)
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WCF Simple Example
On my WCF Introduction post I received a trackback to an example that should be really simple to start WCF with. I'm not here to judge the post (although I could ;-), but it got me thinking. Although I created some small posts on how WCF works, together...
Posted: Apr 20 2007, 03:47 PM by Dennis van der Stelt | with 34 comment(s)
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WCF Part 7 : Bindings
As I've been pretty busy, it's been a while since my last post in the WCF series. But let's have a look at bindings now. A binding will tell a client what's necessary to connect to the service. In other words, how we connect is described by the binding...
Posted: Jan 05 2007, 10:40 PM by Dennis van der Stelt | with 1 comment(s)
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WCF Binding decision chart
A while ago I saw this decision chart to help choose a WCF default binding. Unfortunately I cannot remember where it came from. The problem I had with it was that you could only reach wsHttpBinding if you had to use interop. But you might need to use...
Posted: Dec 01 2006, 11:02 PM by Dennis van der Stelt | with 7 comment(s)
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WCF Part 6 : Address
We'll return once again to the WCF ABC and in this part we'll examine what we can do with the address of our service. There are many options on how to specify the address of your service, especially when you start combining options. But I'll discuss the...
Posted: Nov 29 2006, 03:33 PM by Dennis van der Stelt | with 2 comment(s)
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Display WCF host details; code snippet
Because I'm doing presentations, demos and the WCF article series , I host a lot of WCF services inside a console application. Console applications are great for demonstrating something really quickly. When hosting a WCF service in a console application...
Posted: Nov 28 2006, 02:31 PM by Dennis van der Stelt | with no comments
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WCF Part 5 : Consuming the service
Last time we generated the client and configuration file. Whereas in the asmx world we had a proxy class, the WCF team renamed this in the June CTP to client. For us to use the generated files, we need a new console application and add the files. Don...
Posted: Nov 16 2006, 11:10 PM by Dennis van der Stelt | with 1 comment(s)
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