James Osborne's Blog
2 auth modes on 1 endpoint - Using Multiple Authentication Schemes with ServiceAuthorizationManager
Here’s the general idea: I want a single service endpoint with 2 operations: one can be...
Date: 11/04/2011
Multithreaded Testing...
On multiple occasions, I've found myself in need of a design pattern to allow a single thread to do...
Date: 08/08/2011
Streaming with WCF - Sidebar: What is really going on with my stream?
Streaming with WCF Sidebar - What is really going on with my stream? This posting might not directly...
Date: 06/17/2011
Streaming with WCF - Part 2: Plugging a custom stream into a WCF service
Last time, I introduced this topic and gave an example of a custom stream implementation. This...
Date: 06/17/2011
Streaming with WCF - Part 1: Custom Stream Implementation
Somewhat recently, I've been adding some tests that use streaming with WCF. I'm not going to get...
Date: 06/10/2011
Writing bytes to the wire
As a tester in .NET (more specifically, WCF), every now and then, I end up defining a test...
Date: 04/01/2011
Webhosting a WCF service over Https (with your own Certificates)
Disclaimer: The information contained in this posting is not intended for production environments....
Date: 02/25/2011
WebMatrix Visual Studio Integration
Today, I just installed the release of WebMatrix, along with the Beta version of SP1 for Visual...
Date: 01/13/2011
Tracing and Message Logging in WebMatrix
In Beta3, there was an issue where WCF trace logs would be truncated after closing WebMatrix. See...
Date: 01/13/2011
Mismatching Auth Schemes
Recently, I've come across an interesting exception message in one of my Ad-Hoc WCF projects using...
Date: 01/07/2011
Selfhosting a WCF service over Https
Something as simple as ad-hoc selfhosting a WCF service can be fairly difficult if you need to use...
Date: 12/10/2010
Hosting in IIS using NetTcpBinding
I've recently run across several non-intuitive steps when trying to host a simple Hello-World WCF...
Date: 12/07/2010
Tracing and Message Logging in WebMatrix (IISExpress) Beta3
If you set up a WCF service in WebMatrix or in Visual Studio with IISExpress as the Local IIS Web...
Date: 12/06/2010
WebMatrix Beta3 - Using Authentication
WebMatrix Beta 3 is released here: https://www.microsoft.com/web/webmatrix/. With that said, I'd like...
Date: 11/15/2010
WebMatrix (Beta) appcmd.exe
What is it? First, if you are unfamiliar with appcmd.exe, and what it can do for you, consider...
Date: 09/03/2010
web.config location tag - authentication pitfall
Quick intro to the <location> element in config One of the great features for WCF services is...
Date: 09/03/2010
WebMatrix (IISExpress) Beta - Hosting WCF Services
First off, see ScottGu's blog post on IISExpress:...
Date: 07/30/2010