Craig McMurtry's WebLog
Announcing the Windows Communication Foundation Live Service Trace Viewer
by Craig McMurtry and Vittorio Bertocci Announcing the ... Windows Communication Foundation Live...
Author: Craig McMurtry Date: 09/19/2006
Goodies from TechReady 3 CON312 talk on extensibility
Thanks for coming to the talk. This link should take you to a zip with the presentation, the C#...
Author: Craig McMurtry Date: 07/27/2006
Opening your existing Windows Presentation Foundation (Avalon) projects in the new July CTP
I'm very, very surprised that you can't find this documented in the blogs of anyone one the Windows...
Author: Craig McMurtry Date: 07/24/2006
Versioning Windows Communication Foundation Services
To show how to properly deal with versioning, I’ve created a versioning decision tree. It...
Author: Craig McMurtry Date: 07/23/2006
Windows Communication Foundation Hands-On! All the June CTP updates in one download
You can retrieve all of the June CTP updates for Microsoft Windows Communication Foundation:...
Author: Craig McMurtry Date: 07/17/2006
Check out this wicked FREE book of Visual Studio Tips n' Tricks!
Maybe there is a free lunch after all! A book that I always have at arms reach on my desk is the C#...
Author: Craig McMurtry Date: 07/13/2006
Fix for Intellisense and Refactoring for users of the LINQ May CTP
Users of the LINQ May CTP will know that while LINQ is positively awesome, it knocks Visual Studio's...
Author: Craig McMurtry Date: 07/12/2006
What's new in the June CTP/RC1 release of the Windows Communication Foundation? -Reprise
Awesome Ed Pinto has just published the official list of changes: The breaking changes document:...
Author: Craig McMurtry Date: 07/07/2006
Dramatically reducing the latency of your initial call to a Windows Communication Foundation Service
Newcomers to the Windows Communication Foundation often observe that, when they are making several...
Author: Craig McMurtry Date: 07/07/2006
What's new in the June CTP/RC1 release of the Windows Communication Foundation?
Well, for one thing, it is not accompanied by the handy list of breaking changes to which we have...
Author: Craig McMurtry Date: 07/06/2006
Windows Communication Foundation Hands-On June 2006 CTP/RC1 Updates: Chapter Ten
The code to accompany chapter ten of Microsoft Windows Communication Foundation-Hands On!, updated...
Author: Craig McMurtry Date: 07/06/2006
Windows Communication Foundation Hands-On June 2006 CTP/RC1 Updates: Chapter Eleven
The code to accompany chapter eleven of Microsoft Windows Communication Foundation-Hands On!,...
Author: Craig McMurtry Date: 07/06/2006
Windows Communication Foundation Hands-On June 2006 CTP/RC1 Updates: Chapter Nine
Although I didn't actually write chapter nine, a few readers have asked for updated code for that...
Author: Craig McMurtry Date: 07/06/2006
Windows Communication Foundation Hands-On June 2006 CTP/RC1 Updates: Chapter Thirteen
New code to accompany chapter thirteen of Microsoft Windows Communication Foundation-Hands On!,...
Author: Craig McMurtry Date: 07/06/2006
Here, belatedly, are the slides on building manageable applications with the Windows Communication Foundation
The slides from my Tech-Ed Boston 2006 talk and my presentation to the Seattle .NET users' group are...
Author: Craig McMurtry Date: 06/30/2006
Windows Communication Foundation Hands-On June 2006 CTP/RC1 Updates: Chapter Eight
New code to accompany chapter eight of Microsoft Windows Communication Foundation-Hands On!,...
Author: Craig McMurtry Date: 06/30/2006
Windows Communication Foundation Hands-On June 2006 CTP/RC1 Updates: Chapter Four
The code to accompany chapter four of Microsoft Windows Communication Foundation-Hands On!, updated...
Author: Craig McMurtry Date: 06/25/2006
Windows Communication Foundation Hands-On June 2006 CTP/RC1 Updates: Chapter Three
The code to accompany chapter three of Microsoft Windows Communication Foundation-Hands On!, updated...
Author: Craig McMurtry Date: 06/24/2006
Windows Communication Foundation Hands-On June 2006 CTP/RC1 Updates: Chapter Two
The code to accompany chapter two of Microsoft Windows Communication Foundation-Hands On!, updated...
Author: Craig McMurtry Date: 06/24/2006
Windows Communication Foundation Extensibility Points
If you are interested in the Windows Communication Foundation, then you really should follow Ralph...
Author: Craig McMurtry Date: 05/19/2006
Xbox 360 Retail Store Inventory Tracker - Interlude
Today, I was demonstrating the Xbox 360 Retail Store Inventory Tracker to the Longhorn Server Ascend...
Author: Craig McMurtry Date: 03/08/2006
The Economy of Identity
Canadian writer, William Gibson, is one of the most important science fiction authors of recent...
Author: Craig McMurtry Date: 03/06/2006
Contract-First Development and Diagnosable Mental Disorders
Data sent from Windows Communication Foundation clients to Windows Communication Foundation Services...
Author: Craig McMurtry Date: 02/01/2006
Windows Communication Foundation Hands-on!
The book is on its way: I finished my last chapter this past Wednesday, and I believe Marc was up...
Author: Craig McMurtry Date: 01/29/2006
PDC 2005: Building Manageable Applications with the Windows Communication Foundation I
This is the first in a series of posts to document Amazing Alex Weinert's COM308 talk on building...
Author: Craig McMurtry Date: 09/15/2005
If you are a software vendor interested in adopting Indigo/the Windows Communication Foundation
... then you may like to participate in our Ascend Readiness program that offers extensive hands-on...
Author: Craig McMurtry Date: 09/13/2005
The Three Things to Do at PDC 2005
If I only got to do three things at PDC 2005, these are what they would be: Attend Alex Weinert's...
Author: Craig McMurtry Date: 09/08/2005
State of Washington finally ships Indigo!
... or, more precisely, IndyGo, so that my steed can finally have its proper name. What? You were...
Author: Craig McMurtry Date: 08/28/2005
New Research into Marketing Names
Today's Seattle Times reprints a very well-written article by Richard Morin of the Washington Post...
Author: Craig McMurtry Date: 08/16/2005
The "Windows Communication Foundation" Name
The official name for the technology formerly code-named "Indigo," which is the "Windows...
Author: Craig McMurtry Date: 08/15/2005
The Official Name for the Technology Code-Named "Indigo" ...
... is the Windows Communication Foundation.
Author: Craig McMurtry Date: 07/28/2005
Preparing for Indigo ... the complete essay
Preparing for Indigo Indigo is the code-name for a framework for communication among software...
Author: Craig McMurtry Date: 07/23/2005
What technology should I use today anticipating Indigo tomorrow?
I am spending this afternoon preparing a paper for a colleague to use that addresses the question of...
Author: Craig McMurtry Date: 07/23/2005
Indigo and Jini
Some folk who read David Chappell's excellent article on Indigo found Indigo to be reminiscent of...
Author: Craig McMurtry Date: 04/26/2005
ASP.NET 2.0 #10: Top Five Reasons to Adore ASP.NET 2.0
First, ASP.NET’s themes and master pages facilities make it possible for to build Web applications...
Author: Craig McMurtry Date: 03/04/2005
ASP.NET 2.0 #9: SQLCacheDependency
Here is the code for a user control that displays a report: the control only goes through the...
Author: Craig McMurtry Date: 03/04/2005
ASP.NET 2.0 #8: WebPart Page Sample
<%@ Page Language="C#" MasterPageFile="~/Masters/Interior.master" CompileWith="Dashboard.aspx.cs"...
Author: Craig McMurtry Date: 03/04/2005
ASP.NET 2.0 #7: Data Access
Given the monumental success of Dan Brown’s novel, The Da Vinci Code, I must assume that many of you...
Author: Craig McMurtry Date: 03/04/2005
ASP.NET 2.0 #6: Personalization
Here's the code by which one authorized user can access another's personalization data: branch =...
Author: Craig McMurtry Date: 03/04/2005
ASP.NET 2.0 #5: Security II: Windows Server 2003 Authorization Manager Role Provider
Here's my custom Windows Server 2003 Authorization Manager Role Provider: using System;using...
Author: Craig McMurtry Date: 03/04/2005
ASP.NET 2.0 #4: Security I: AD/AM Membership Provider
Here is my repaired version of Jit Ghosh's AD/AM Membership Provider: using System;using...
Author: Craig McMurtry Date: 03/04/2005
ASP.NET 2.0 #3: Navigation
Let's say that you have to, as I did once, develop a menu like the one illustrated here: As users...
Author: Craig McMurtry Date: 03/04/2005
ASP.NET 2.0 #2: Master Pages
A realistic starting point for the coding on many Web projects is static mock-ups provided by a...
Author: Craig McMurtry Date: 03/04/2005
ASP.NET 2.0 #1: Themes and Skins Sample
The skin of a graphical user interface is the element that determines how that interface looks, or,...
Author: Craig McMurtry Date: 03/04/2005
Read about 64-bit Windows from the 64-bit Windows team!!!
The Windows Server division team is blogging on the wonders of x64: visit their blogs here:...
Author: Craig McMurtry Date: 02/14/2005