Gerben van Loon

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IBM WMQ WCF Transport channel issues
There are some known nasty issues that my colleagues discovered while using the IBM WMQ WCF Transport channel. These where discovered with client version 7.0.1.3. The service will hit the faulted state and will not pick up further messages when: - A wrong...
Posted: Mon, Dec 20 2010 3:51 PM by Gerben van Loon | with 2 comment(s)
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IBM WebSphere MQ WCF Channels updated
Some updates to my original post since Microsoft Host Integration Server 2010 is released. My comparison now looks like this: IBM HIS2009 HIS2010 Fire-and-forget (oneway) client + + + Fire-and-forget (oneway) service + + + Request-reply client + - + Request...
Posted: Mon, Dec 20 2010 2:58 PM by Gerben van Loon | with 5 comment(s)
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IBM WMQ WCF Transport channel tips and tricks
Working with this transport channel now for a while, and discovered some interesting things which I’d like to share. With the transport channel I mean the “IBM.XMS.WCF.SoapJmsIbmTransportChannel” which you can find in the IBM.XMS.WCF...
Updated my IBM WebSphere MQ WCF post again
Updated the post again: http://bloggingabout.net/blogs/gerben/archive/2010/02/25/ibm-websphere-mq-wcf-channels.aspx . Now a clearer overview with a feature comparison.
Posted: Tue, Jul 20 2010 3:51 PM by Gerben van Loon | with no comments
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BizTalk vs AppFabric
Lately I hear more and more people saying that BizTalk server has become obsolete. This because of the developments in the WCF4, WF4 and AppFabric space. While there is some truth in there, BizTalk server offers the following things today that makes it...
What's new in WCF4?
Not showing up on the first page if you search around, but I think it currently is the best article around that shows the new stuff: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee354381.aspx
Posted: Wed, Apr 21 2010 9:51 AM by Gerben van Loon | with no comments
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DevDays 2010 WCF Best Practices session slides
Wow, I was really surprised when starting my session. Had the last presentation slot at the last day so didn't expect a whole lot of people. But it turned out to be pretty different, there actually wasn't enough space for everybody, people had...
Posted: Tue, Apr 6 2010 9:19 AM by Gerben van Loon | with no comments
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Update IBM WebSphere MQ WCF post
Updated the post: http://bloggingabout.net/blogs/gerben/archive/2010/02/25/ibm-websphere-mq-wcf-channels.aspx New findings are that Microsoft is planning a WAS listener for IIS7 for their channel. Update for the IBM one is that they're relying on...
Posted: Fri, Mar 12 2010 5:32 PM by Gerben van Loon | with no comments
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Presenting at DevDays 2010
I'll be doing a session about... (not surprisingly)... "WCF Best Practices" at the Dutch DevDays 2010! Check out the DevDays website for more info: http://www.devdays.nl/Agenda.aspx?pid=66
Posted: Thu, Mar 11 2010 8:40 AM by Gerben van Loon | with no comments
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IBM WebSphere MQ WCF Channels
See some update here: http://bloggingabout.net/blogs/gerben/archive/2010/12/20/ibm-websphere-mq-wcf-channels-updated.aspx Windows Communication Foundation out of the box ships with quite some transport mechanisms. By default it comes with http, tcp, msmq...
WCF Best Practices series done!
Whooo... it's done! Had these articles in the pipeline for quite a while :-). They come from my years of WCF experience started around 2005 with the CTPs until now. Hope you find the posts usefull, let me know. Best place is to start is with the introduction...
Posted: Mon, Feb 1 2010 4:35 PM by Gerben van Loon | with 2 comment(s)
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WCF Best Practice #6: Know the limits of reliable Messaging with WCF
In addition to the WCF Best Practices that are already around. WCF Best Practice #6: Know the limits of reliable Messaging with WCF. WCF has an implementation of WS-ReliableMessaging. Due to its name it’s often thrown in as the solution to all reliability...
Posted: Mon, Feb 1 2010 4:21 PM by Gerben van Loon | with no comments
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WCF Best Practice #5: One-way is not always really one-way
In addition to the WCF Best Practices that are already around. WCF Best Practice #5: One-way is not always really one-way: Be aware that the client.Close() can block until the service operation is done. Yes you read it right even when oneway closing a...
Posted: Mon, Feb 1 2010 3:59 PM by Gerben van Loon | with 1 comment(s)
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WCF Best Practice #4: Know your tools
In addition to the WCF Best Practices that are already around. WCF Best Practice #4: know your tools: Tools from the SDK: The framework sdk comes with quite some tools that are essential for the WCF developer: They are listed here: http://msdn.microsoft...
Posted: Mon, Feb 1 2010 3:55 PM by Gerben van Loon | with 2 comment(s)
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WCF Best Practice #3: Contract first
In addition to the WCF Best Practices that are already around. WCF Best Practice #3: Contract first: Not really a best practices but still an important thing to know if you’re new to WCF. WCF isn’t very good at developing contract first. By...
Posted: Mon, Feb 1 2010 3:53 PM by Gerben van Loon | with 1 comment(s)
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