I love ClickOnce, automated builds and a lot more Microsoft stuff. Unfortunately not for everything there is a simple solution. I ran into a new problem today. I was playing around with certificates, signed manifests and all of this in an automated build. I needed to make some application deployable...
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 how we can use the class library again for hosting...
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. Read my complete WCF series on how to set up your...
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 it might still be too much for people that...
Recently Anko Duizer started a discussion inside Class-A about Windows Workflow Foundation, specifically about state machine workflow vs. sequential workflow. One point of discussion was why in (almost) every presentation out there, the sequential workflow is being demonstrated. Sequential workflows...
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. As you can see in the image, this is composed from...
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 HTTP for a transport. Also the local option came too...
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 three main options. Don't be scared by the size...
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, you require a pause so that your client applications...
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't forget to add the System.ServiceModel reference...