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Network Monitor 3.3 Beta
A new beta release of Network Monitor is available on Connect. Network Monitor is a tool for tracing...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 03/16/2009
The ASP.NET MVC Tutorial
Scott Guthrie has been working overtime to create the last ASP.NET MVC tutorial you'll ever need....
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 03/13/2009
Callback Behaviors
How do I apply behaviors to the callback portion of a callback contract? If you were going to apply...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 03/12/2009
SAML Client Credentials
Dominick Baier put up an article yesterday showing how to use client generated SAML tokens for...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 03/11/2009
Kerberos Kernel Authentication Hotfix
After talking about Kerberos kernel authentication earlier I noticed that there was a hotfix...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 03/10/2009
Silverlight Spy for Inspecting Applications
Silverlight Spy is a development tool that allows you to poke around inside a running Silverlight 2...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 03/09/2009
Default Content Type
Why doesn't WCF recognize a request without a Content-Type header? An HTTP message that contains a...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 03/06/2009
ASP.NET MVC Release Candidate Update and More Book Chapters
ASP.NET MVC has an updated release candidate that is built on Orcas SP1. There are minimal other...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 03/05/2009
Memory Impact of Quotas
Will setting the receive quotas to large values cause my service to run out of memory? It depends on...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 03/03/2009
MTOM Boundary Markers
What is the string "--uuid:…" doing embedded in MTOM messages? That string is a boundary marker that...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 03/02/2009
Eight Hundred and First Post
Continuing the series of milestones, Thursday marked the 800th post. As expected, that works out to...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 02/27/2009
Improving Hosted HTTP Request Scaling
A few months ago Wenlong Dong announced an improvement to HTTP request scalability when WCF is...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 02/26/2009
February Free Book Offer
The February edition of the free Microsoft book of the month includes a downloadable version of the...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 02/24/2009
Experimenting with Modeling in Oslo
Stephen Forte has a series of articles on getting started trying out the modeling capabilities of...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 02/23/2009
Kerberos Kernel Authentication Issues
Why does IIS7 with Kerberos use the server machine's credentials to decrypt the ticket rather than...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 02/20/2009
SVC Script Maps
What registration in IIS is responsible for processing SVC files? There are two parts to the...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 02/19/2009
Small Post
This small post is about Scott Hanselman's small site for grabbing a small .Net framework install....
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 02/18/2009
Understanding Installation Failures
More good articles on framework installation issues by Aaron Stebner are available than the ones...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 02/17/2009
Moonlight Released
Moonlight 1.0, which is the open source implementation of Silverlight 1.0 for Linux, officially...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 02/16/2009
Developing with Domain Specific Languages
Shawn Wildermuth is writing a series of articles on building and using domain specific languages for...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 02/13/2009
Scott Guthrie Talks about MIX and Silverlight
This Channel 9 interview with Scott Guthrie covers a variety of topics ranging from the upcoming...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 02/12/2009
Framework Install Verification and Cleanup
Last time I mentioned Aaron Stebner's sample programs for testing the registry for framework...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 02/11/2009
Checking for Framework Installs
How can a program check whether WCF is installed? The installation status of WCF can be quickly...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 02/10/2009
ASP.NET MVC Book Preview
Stephen Walther is publishing rough drafts of chapters for an upcoming book on the ASP.NET MVC...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 02/09/2009
Message Framing, Part 7
The almost last article in the series is a bit of data and roundup to catch a few miscellaneous...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 02/06/2009
Looking into Windows Web Services
I mentioned Windows Web Services, a native code implementation of a subset of WCF, a few weeks ago...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 02/05/2009
Oslo SDK CTP
At the end of last week a new CTP release of Oslo was made available for download. Oslo is an...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 02/04/2009
Stefan Tilkov on REST
Stefan is a skeptic about SOAP protocols and advocates REST as a way of reaching the goals of...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 02/03/2009
Message Framing, Part 6
Past entries that you should have read by now: Next Week, a Series Message Framing, Part 1 Message...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 02/02/2009
ASP.NET MVC Release Candidate
MVC is a model-view-controller framework for building ASP.NET applications, particularly...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 01/30/2009
Managed Extensibility Framework 4
The fourth preview release of the Managed Extensibility Framework is available on CodePlex. MEF is a...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 01/29/2009
Message Framing, Part 5
Past entries that you should have read by now: Next Week, a Series Message Framing, Part 1 Message...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 01/28/2009
WCF in F#
Ted Neward is writing a series illustrating the tricks and pitfalls of translating a basic WCF...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 01/27/2009
Message Framing, Part 4
Past entries that you should have read by now: Next Week, a Series Message Framing, Part 1 Message...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 01/26/2009
SOA Samples at Apache
The Stonehenge incubation project at Apache has started collecting together different...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 01/23/2009
Message Framing, Part 3
Past entries that you should have read by now: Next Week, a Series Message Framing, Part 1 Message...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 01/22/2009
Message Framing, Part 2
Although there are a several different legal sequences of records in the framing format, the first...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 01/21/2009
Further Adventures of Aaron Skonnard Screencasts
Since the last update I did Aaron has put up six more screencasts for you to enjoy. Configuring WAS...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 01/20/2009
Message Framing, Part 1
Message framing is the breaking up of a stream of data into demarcated units called messages. Some...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 01/19/2009
Next Week, a Series
Next week I'll be starting a series talking about the .Net Message Framing protocol. First, some...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 01/16/2009
Using Proxies to Debug HTTP Requests
When working with a WCF application that has an HTTP binding, it's often useful to be able to see...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 01/15/2009
StackOverflow Working Better than Expected
StackOverflow is a programming question and answer site that Joel Spolsky and Jeff Atwood started a...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 01/14/2009
.Net Services White Papers
The .Net Services Team has released a set of white papers describing new versions of their online...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 01/13/2009
Windows 7 Beta
The Windows 7 beta should be available later today if you're interested in trying it out. Since this...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 01/09/2009
Forwarding Service, Part 2
The primary advantage of having a forwarding service that comes with WCF is that it enables you to...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 01/08/2009
Updates to Reliable, Secure, and Transacted Standards Close to Approval
Updated versions of the standards for reliable message, message security, and distributed...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 01/07/2009
Extend Your PDC Life
The product installs in the VPC images of WCF 4 and Dublin should be expiring around now if you've...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 01/06/2009