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ASP.NET MVC 2 Release Candidate
Last week also delivered onto us a release candidate for ASP.NET MVC 2. MVC is a...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 12/22/2009
Identity and Federation Services Releases
Windows Identity Foundation is an add-on for .Net 3.5 that provides support for building...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 12/21/2009
Mono 2.6 and Moonlight 2 Released
Earlier this week marked the releases of Mono 2.6, an open source implementation of C# and the...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 12/18/2009
Dynamic Routing Updates
Can I modify the message filters used by a routing service after the service is started? No, the...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 12/17/2009
Where UDDI Went
UDDI is a standardized enterprise repository for cataloging web services and other modules according...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 12/16/2009
Fall Training Kit Collection
A few weeks ago I wrote about the October update to the training kit for Visual Studio 2010 and .Net...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 12/15/2009
Web Security Interviews
The folks at .Net Rocks have been doing a number of interviews over the past few months on web...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 12/14/2009
How to Configure MSMQ Activation for Workflow Services
Our customer experience team has published a new article describing how to configure MSMQ activation...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 12/11/2009
MIX 2010 Registration and Session Submission Open
The next iteration of MIX is coming March 15-17th, 2010. MIX is the conference in Las Vegas for...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 12/10/2009
An XML Standard and Three Last Calls
It's been a while since I last did a trip around the work being done by the standards organizations...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 12/09/2009
Virtual Labs for AppFabric and .Net 4
Ten labs for AppFabric and .Net 4 are available on MSDN virtual labs. Virtual labs allow you to...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 12/08/2009
Customizing Parameter Names
Why does changing the name of a parameter in a service contract break compatibility with existing...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 12/07/2009
Don't Check What Doesn't Have to be Correct
I'm trying to validate the structure of messages against schema but there are SOAP headers that I...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 12/04/2009
Managed Extensibility Preview and in Silverlight
It's been a while since I've talked about the Managed Extensibility Framework, but there were two...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 12/03/2009
Double Fixing
Now that Windows 7 is starting to see a lot of usage, I've had a few questions about installing...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 12/02/2009
Silverlight 4 Out of Browser
Silverlight 3 introduced an out of browser mode that provided a standalone experience for running...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 12/01/2009
AppFabric Talks and Slides
Windows Server AppFabric is a set of integrated technologies that make it easier to build, scale,...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 11/30/2009
Data Services Joins the WCF Family
As announced at PDC, along with RIA Services, ADO.NET Data Services are also joining in the WCF...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 11/27/2009
Holiday Technology Update
Today is a light day because of the holiday but I did want to put out this note that the technology...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 11/26/2009
ASP.NET MVC 2 Beta
And finally, one last PDC keynote announcement from the first day was the beta release of ASP.NET...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 11/25/2009
WCF RIA Services Beta
Also during the second PDC keynote came the announcement of the previously announced RIA Services...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 11/24/2009
Silverlight 4 Developer Beta
During the second PDC keynote came the announcement of a beta release for Silverlight 4. Silverlight...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 11/23/2009
Watch the PDC 2009 Keynotes
The keynote videos from day 1 and day 2 of PDC 2009 are now available. The day 1 keynote features...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 11/20/2009
More PDC Announcements: Azure Turning On, Azure AppFabric, and Dallas
On the cloud side there were also a variety of announcements coming from PDC as to future products...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 11/19/2009
PDC Day 1 Announcement: AppFabric
One of the first day announcements at the PDC 2009 keynote was the unveiling of Windows Server...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 11/18/2009
Future of Moonlight
Taking a quick break from PDC, this prerecorded message is about Miguel de Icaza's comments last...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 11/17/2009
Related PDC Sessions for WCF and Workflow
Four talks each for WCF and WF, only one pair of which have conflicting times. Here are the WCF...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 11/16/2009
PDC 2009 Logistics
Here is how next week is going to work for articles while PDC is going on. I will try to continue to...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 11/13/2009
Bob Muglia Talks Distributed Systems and Silverlight
TechCrunch talked to Bob Muglia a few months ago covering cloud computing, distributed systems, and...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 11/12/2009
Interfaces Lack Data
Why does having two known types blow up for being conflicting data contract types if the types are...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 11/11/2009
Another .Net 4 Survey: Documentation
If you enjoy being surveyed (and who doesn't?), then the developer documentation teams would like to...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 11/10/2009
One Week to PDC 2009
With one week to go before PDC starts, the times and rooms for all of the sessions are now...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 11/09/2009
.Net Services November 2009 CTP
The .Net Services team has made a November 2009 CTP release of the SDK for their portion of the...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 11/06/2009
Windows Web Services Samples
The Windows Web Services API is a native-code implementation of a subset of the SOAP web services...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 11/05/2009
Breaking Changes for WCF in .Net 4 Beta 2
Available for download is the list of breaking changes between beta 1 and beta 2 for WCF and WF. To...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 11/04/2009
Visual Studio and .Net 4 Beta 2 Survey
The Visual Studio team has set up a survey to collect additional feedback about the Beta 2 release....
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 11/03/2009
Replacing Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 with Beta 2
I recently helped someone out with replacing Visual Studio 2010 and .Net 4 Beta 1 with the newer...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 11/02/2009
Building a Data Contract Serializer Behavior
In configuration there's a DataContractSerializer behavior that I can add to my service, but the...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 10/30/2009
Federating from Silverlight
I've had a few people ask whether the WCF subset in Silverlight supports message-level security. The...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 10/29/2009
Ten More PDC 2009 Talks for Web Service Developers
I covered earlier the WCF and WF PDC talks that the team is doing, but there are many other groups...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 10/28/2009
Finding CLR Types from Schema
How can I found out what CLR type a particular XML schema definition will map to when using data...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 10/27/2009
Application Auto Start in IIS
Application auto start is the ability for an application to be automatically started up before...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 10/26/2009
WCF Samples for .Net 4 Beta 2
The Windows SDK samples for WCF and WF are now available updated for .Net 4 Beta 2. These are only...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 10/23/2009
.Net 4 Beta 2 Really Released
Although available for download by subscribers the last few days, the second beta release of .Net 4...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 10/22/2009
Visual Studio and .Net 4 Training Kit October Update
The training kit of materials for Visual Studio 2010 and .Net 4 has now been updated with the latest...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 10/21/2009
ASP.NET MVC 1 Scripts on AJAX Delivery Network
Last week the AJAX script files included for ASP.NET MVC applications were added to the AJAX content...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 10/20/2009
Order Best Practices
Why is setting the Order property on data members recommended when adding fields in a new version of...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 10/19/2009
Four Weeks between Now and PDC 2009
There are four more weeks between now and the start of PDC the week of November 16th. Registration...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 10/16/2009
Transfer Modes and Buffer Sizes
Why do only some of the bindings allow setting a MaxBufferSize? The maximum buffer size and the...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 10/15/2009
WCF Case Studies Year 3
Two and a half years ago I put together an initial list of case studies involving WCF from the...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 10/14/2009