WCF, as you probably know, can be a hugely flexible, but equally complicated beast. The domain knowledge stretches from the .NET stack to identity management, encryption and transport. “Out of the box”, it’s pretty straight forward, but the demos and examples often presented by Microsoft...
Working with web sites, web pages, web services and web clients has until recently been very much a synchronous operation, which is despite the very asynchronous nature of the web. Synchronous programming techniques are linear in operation in that process A cannot execute until process B has completed...
The last couple of days I've tried to see if it was possible to make use of standard http compression on WCF services as I had very good experiences with WSE and even asmx webservices that used http compression to save bandwidth - but more important - and have better response times for large xml...
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. I've seen Deepfish, a new browser by Microsoft...
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 or start of February. The classes will be the...
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 Silverlight tools for beta 2 http://www.microsoft...
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 WCF Web stuff, Alex is creating Linq to SQL/XML...