Silverlight Web Services Team
Everything about WCF and web services support in Silverlight
Known issues with RIA Services V1 SP2 on Visual Studio 11 Beta
RIA Services V1 SP2 works great with With Visual Studio 11 Beta. There are a few small issues to be...
Date: 03/05/2012
RIA Services SP2 RTW released
Please check out my blog post with release details.
Date: 12/09/2011
Slightly fake active federation with WCF and WIF
Just blogged how to implement an active federation flow from Silverlight using WS-Trust and WIF....
Date: 10/06/2011
Some notes on PollingDuplex callback management
Our cutomer Chris Bardon just published his thoughts on how to simplify callback management in...
Date: 08/29/2011
Extensibility interfaces for Windows Phone 7 and Silverlight 3
The extensibility interfaces (IClientMessageFormatter, IClientMessageInspector, IParameterInspector)...
Date: 06/28/2011
Custom serialization in Silverlight
Unlike in the desktop framework, Silverlight doesn't have a good extensibility point for replacing...
Date: 06/07/2011
Hosting WCF NetTcp services in Azure with a Silverlight client
Just published a blog post on how to host WCF NetTcp services in Windows Azure and use them from a...
Date: 05/16/2011
Active Federation using RIA Services and WIF
You may have built a federated auth app with RIA Services, but it always required cumbersome browser...
Date: 05/12/2011
RIA Services T4 template to copy comments from server to client
Just posted a sample about how to use the T4 code-generation template support in RIA Services V1 SP1...
Date: 04/05/2011
Accessing SharePoint UserProfileService from Windows Phone 7
A while ago we shared a workaround for accessing some ASMX services (including SharePoint's...
Date: 03/07/2011
PollingDuplex using MultipleMessagesPerPoll issue in latest SL4 GDRs
Some customers are reporting on the Silverlight forums that they are unable to have a functional...
Date: 12/15/2010
Silverlight Firestarter
Thanks to everyone who joined us for the WCF and WCF RIA Services talks today at the Silverlight...
Date: 12/02/2010
WCF Web APIs on wcf.codeplex.com
Today we are announcing the first release of WCF Web APIs on wcf.codeplex.com, just in time for PDC...
Date: 10/29/2010
Getting the WebOperationContext of a HTTP response in Silverlight
Here is a little code snippet that shows how to work with WebOperationContext for HTTP responses in...
Date: 10/20/2010
Debugging WCF services in Silverlight
Hi folks – check out this new SilverlightTV video, going over some of the common errors you may...
Date: 09/23/2010
Integrating WCF RIA Services with WCF Routing
If any of you have used RIA Services and tried to get that to work with the WCF router, you probably...
Date: 08/24/2010
Silverlight HTML5 WebSocket client with an HTML bridge to Ajax/JavaScript
As part of our ongoing experimentation with the HTML5 WebSocket proposed standard for duplex...
Date: 07/26/2010
Cross-domain file for self-hosted TCP services
With the new transport (TCP) added in SL4, and a few people started asking how to serve the...
Date: 07/24/2010
Fixed a problem with comments
It appears that MSDN’s new blog engine has started more aggressively marking comments for...
Date: 07/19/2010
PollingDuplex multiple mode timeouts demystified
The new MultipleMessagesPerPoll mode added to PollingDuplex in Silverlight 4, comes with some new...
Date: 07/16/2010
Streamed Silverlight file downloads using WCF
Carlos, one of my teammates responsible for WCF support in Silverlight, just posted a code sample...
Date: 07/16/2010
Laharsub: HTTP REST pub/sub service for AJAX and Silverlight web clients
I would like to invite you to review, download, use, tweak, and provide feedback for an experimental...
Date: 07/13/2010
How can we make WCF support in Silverlight better?
Sometimes as a team we get carried away trying to add new features to the product, when we should...
Date: 06/29/2010
HTTP duplex messaging improvements in Silverlight 4
One of the new features in the WCF stack in Silverlight 4 is an improvement of our PollingDuplex...
Date: 06/25/2010
Duplex communication with WCF on Silverlight TV
Silverlight TV episode about Duplex communication with WCF in Silverlight is beginning to air today....
Date: 06/24/2010
Workaround for accessing some ASMX services from Silverlight 4
On this blog we normally talk about building and accessing WCF services, since that is the...
Date: 05/26/2010
Fiddler inspector for WCF Silverlight Polling Duplex and WCF RIA
Fiddler is a wild popular tool for web development debugging. It enables user to look at the http...
Date: 05/10/2010
The case of null httpcontext.current.session
Because of un-addressable client in SL, we introduced Polling Duplex channel to support callback in...
Date: 05/05/2010
Workaround for StackOverflowException when using SlSvcUtil.exe
Some developers reported to us they were experiencing StackOverflowException when using...
Date: 04/30/2010
Consuming REST/POX and REST/JSON services in Silverlight 4
A new feature in Silverlight 4 is the ability to consume REST/POX (XML) services in a strongly-typed...
Date: 04/29/2010
Dealing with those pesky WCF CommunicationException “NotFound” errors in Silverlight
We have blogged and written about this before, but it keeps coming back as a major pain point when...
Date: 04/15/2010
Policy file for NetTcp
As part of Silverlight 4, developers can now use the NetTcp framing protocol for their web services....
Date: 04/09/2010
Tracing PollingDuplex in Silverlight 4
Did you know it is now easier to debug the server side PollingDuplex in Silverlight 4? With the...
Date: 04/09/2010
Dynamically updating proxy address for staging/production
I’ve been meaning to blog this for a while, but Tim Heuer beat me to it. His post shows how to...
Date: 04/05/2010
Some known WCF issues in Silverlight 4
When shipping a product, there are always a handful of painful issues that we unfortunately cannot...
Date: 04/04/2010
MIX 2010 talk: what’s new in WCF in Silverlight 4
I just realized I never got around to posting this. Here is a link to our presentation at MIX 2010....
Date: 04/04/2010
Comparison of HTTP polling duplex and net.tcp performance in Silverlight 4 RC
One of the new features added in Silverlight 4 RC that shipped at MIX 2010 is a new mode of the HTTP...
Date: 03/27/2010
Two samples from today's MIX talk
Thanks to the folks who attended my talk at MIX 2010 today. As promised, I'm posting the two samples...
Date: 03/17/2010
Making slsvcutil behave like “Add Service Reference”
Just a quick note to clarify a subject where we get a lot of questions. By default, running Add...
Date: 03/03/2010
PDC presentation and demo
Here is my presentation at last week’s PDC conference about what’s new in networking and web...
Date: 12/18/2009
PollingDuplex scaling in Windows Azure
One of the great sessions at this year’s PDC talked about a collaboration between Invensys and...
Date: 11/24/2009
WCF net.tcp protocol in Silverlight 4 Beta
Support for the WCF net.tcp protocol is the key feature addition in the core of WCF offering in...
Date: 11/18/2009
New Web Services Features in Silverlight 4 Beta
This morning at PDC ’09 ScottGu just announced the availability of Silverlight 4 Beta. Later on...
Date: 11/18/2009
Adoption of Silverlight serialization and communication technologies in web applications – October 2009
We have repeated the research of the adoption of communication and serialization technologies in...
Date: 10/16/2009
Having a PollingDuplex service and any other WCF service in the same website causes Silverlight calls to be slow
After polling duplex support for WCF was released in Silverlight 2...
Date: 09/30/2009
Scale-out of Silverlight HTTP polling duplex WCF service in a web farm scenario
The recent post about performance of Silverlight HTTP polling duplex protocol pointed out...
Date: 09/16/2009
Channel9 WCF duplex demo
Recently I spent some time with Robert Hess over at Channel9 discussing Silverlight 3 and giving a...
Date: 08/27/2009
Using web service faults with the new SL3 client HTTP stack
Carlos, one of our team members, has posted an quick blog post on how to use SOAP faults with the...
Date: 08/17/2009
AJAX client for HTTP polling duplex WCF channel in Microsoft Silverlight 3
If you are interested in coding an AJAX client application that consumes asynchronous data...
Date: 08/05/2009
Pub/sub sample using HTTP polling duplex WCF channel in Microsoft Silverlight 3
We now have a sample implementation of a pub/sub scenario that uses the HTTP polling duplex WCF...
Date: 07/24/2009