Mahjayar's WebLog.
Visual Studio 2005 SP1 Released
Update: Turns out this SP was only for the Visual Studio tools part and not for the framework. Which...
Author: mjayaram Date: 12/17/2006
WCF Channels AutoOpen vs Open Semantics
Wanted to write up a post on whats the difference between "auto" opening a WCF Channel and...
Author: mjayaram Date: 11/19/2006
Photosynth preview. Wow
First VirtualEarth 3D and now PhotoSynth.No words to describe it. Check it out for yourself (esp the...
Author: mjayaram Date: 11/09/2006
WinFx 3.0 has RTM'd
Sometime last Friday, admist cheers and high fives, our lead PM resolved the last bug that stopped...
Author: mjayaram Date: 11/07/2006
What happens when InstanceContext.Release/GetServiceInstance() is called on a Singleton
InstanceContext has two methods, ReleaseServiceInstance and GetServiceInstance, that can be used by...
Author: mjayaram Date: 10/24/2006
IInstanceContextProvider threading model
IInstanceContextProvider is the extension used by WCF runtime to associate/create InstanceContexts...
Author: mjayaram Date: 10/19/2006
Is Live search usage increasing
Robert Scoble has a post where he feels that Live search is getting better. I have been using Live...
Author: mjayaram Date: 10/14/2006
Debugging Whidbey Remoting AccessViolation Problem
There has been some cases where users have reported an AccessViolation when upgrading their Remoting...
Author: mjayaram Date: 10/14/2006
WCF June/July CTP: QnA
We have an internal alias where people developing apps on WCF post questions. Generally we see some...
Author: mjayaram Date: 07/26/2006
Usage pattern for IInstanceContextInitializer vs IInstanceContextProvider
I mentioned in my previous post that June CTP introduces a new extension to enable sharing. One...
Author: mjayaram Date: 07/17/2006
Configuring Kerberos delegation in Remoting
One of the common question we have in remoting forums is how to configure Kerberos delegation with...
Author: mjayaram Date: 07/11/2006
WinFx June CTP: ServiceThrottle changes
Users will find 2 changes in ServiceThrottle and ServiceThrottlingBehavior classes in WinFx's...
Author: mjayaram Date: 07/08/2006
Winfx June CTP: What happened to InstanceContextMode.Shareable
The June CTP of WinFx introduces some breaking changes and the detailed API changes can be...
Author: mjayaram Date: 07/08/2006
Announcing availability of WinFx (.Net Framework 3.0) June CTP
Winfx's (renamed to .Net Framework 3.0) June CTP is available here. I know its been a while since I...
Author: mjayaram Date: 06/23/2006
Announcing the .Net Remoting team blog
I am also part of the team that supports all versions of .Net Remoting. We found that lot of...
Author: mjayaram Date: 04/07/2006
WCF Feb CTP: Multiple ServiceEndpoints sharing a common Uri to listen for messages.
With the feb CTP release we added the ability for multiple ServiceEndpoint's on a service to share a...
Author: mjayaram Date: 03/02/2006
IEndpointBehavior vs IServiceBehavior
Why should this be a post topic? From the naming, its clear that one is for extending the "Service"...
Author: mjayaram Date: 02/27/2006
What happened to IChannelBehavior?
With the WCF Feb CTP release the IChannelBehavior interface has been removed. In previous CTP's this...
Author: mjayaram Date: 02/27/2006
WCF Feb CTP namespace changes
I wanted to talk a little bit about the namespace changes in the Feb CTP of WCP (Indigo). With the...
Author: mjayaram Date: 02/22/2006
WinFx Feb CTP online!!
We just released the Feb CTP of Winfx and it can be downloaded here. With this you will find a ton...
Author: mjayaram Date: 02/22/2006
GoLive license for WCF
How confident are we of the Windows Communication Foundation beta: confident enough to issue GoLive...
Author: mjayaram Date: 01/18/2006
Msn Messenger 8.0 Beta invites.
I just checked and saw that I had 15 invitations to MSN messenger 8.0 beta. If anyone needs an...
Author: mjayaram Date: 01/09/2006
From NCL to WCF
With Whidbey shipping, I made a career choice to move over to a SDE role working with the Indigo...
Author: mjayaram Date: 12/29/2005
Whidbey shipped
This morning .Net framework 2.0 final version was shipped out to MSDN subscribers. It was great...
Author: mjayaram Date: 10/27/2005
One more System.Net tester starts to blog
One more tester from System.Net test team Jon cole has started blogging. He starts with a good post...
Author: mjayaram Date: 09/08/2005
Face of System.Net
We recently had a team photo shoot of the native Winsock and the System.Net team. Thought it would...
Author: mjayaram Date: 08/04/2005
MSDN article on AutoProxy support in Whidbey
Common customer feedback with the 1.1 Framework was support for reading autproxy settings configured...
Author: mjayaram Date: 08/04/2005
.NET Smtp Client implementation and Gmail - Customer feedback Bug
As I had mentioned in my earlier post, we have set up a forum for answering customer issues and...
Author: mjayaram Date: 06/29/2005
Newsgroup for System.NET Whidbey questions
We have a newsgroup that has been specifically opened for System.Net questions for Whidbey Beta2 of...
Author: mjayaram Date: 04/28/2005
New/Improved System.Net features in Whidbey Beta 2
Well now that Whidbey beta2 has been released, I wanted to mention some of the new features that...
Author: mjayaram Date: 04/18/2005
Coming Soon
Hi I had not posted at all this year as we were busy getting Whidbey Beta2 ready for public release....
Author: mjayaram Date: 03/30/2005
MSN Beta Desktop Search Revealed
As most of the WWW now knows, Microsoft had announced it would release a Desktop Search tool. The...
Author: mjayaram Date: 12/13/2004
HttpListener - User scenarios
I have been interested in finding out from customers how they are using/plan to use the new...
Author: mjayaram Date: 12/12/2004
GUI Tool for using Httpcfg.exe to configure SSL on a given port
In my previous posts I had metioned on how to get SSL working with the new HttpListener class in...
Author: mjayaram Date: 11/30/2004
Good article on hosting ASPX pages using System.Web.Hosting api's
With .NET 1.1, a hosting api was shipped under System.Web.Hosting namespace that let users execute...
Author: mjayaram Date: 11/23/2004
Programatically configure SMTP service on IIS to route mails to a domain
Ever wondered how to programatically configure SMTP service on IIS to route mails to a particular...
Author: mjayaram Date: 11/08/2004
Intro
I am an SDET with the Network class libraries (System.Net) part of the .Net platform. I shall use...
Author: mjayaram Date: 09/13/2004