Nicholas Allen's Indigo Blog
Windows Communication Foundation From the Inside
Reaching a More Permanent Conclusion
Taking some mandatory time off for system maintenance and upgrading grew into deciding that the time...
Date: 06/30/2010
Extended Down Time
MSDN will be migrating to a new blog platform during all of next week. During that time comments...
Date: 05/13/2010
Identity Framework SDK and Training Kit for Visual Studio 2010
A new version of the Windows Identity Framework SDK and developer training kit is available...
Date: 05/12/2010
Debugging a Missing HostedTransportConfiguration Type
When browsing to a service hosted in IIS I get an error that the protocol does not have an...
Date: 05/11/2010
WCF Data Services V1 Client Library and Update
The WCF Data Services team has released the source code for their OData client libraries on .Net 3.5...
Date: 05/10/2010
Claims Visualization
Dominick Baier has a visualization for claims in the Visual Studio debugger. I’m not sure what other...
Date: 05/07/2010
Service Activation without Files
WCF services in IIS use a .svc file to bootstrap the process of activating a service. It’s possible...
Date: 05/06/2010
Routing and Impersonation
Can the routing service introduced with .Net 4 be used with impersonation? Yes, the routing service...
Date: 05/05/2010
Multiple Site Bindings
A WCF application in IIS is a service page that is hosted under a site. You can assign different...
Date: 05/04/2010
May and June ReMIX 2010 Events
ReMIX is an annual twist on the MIX conference that takes a small portion of the content presented...
Date: 05/03/2010
Windows Server AppFabric Refresh and Videos
Windows Server AppFabric provides management, monitoring, and other component services for WCF...
Date: 04/30/2010
HTTPS Host Name for IIS
The configuration of an IIS site includes the ability to associate a host name with a particular...
Date: 04/29/2010
Schema Errors Extending Configuration
After adding a custom binding element to configuration as a binding element extension, Visual Studio...
Date: 04/28/2010
Network Tracing Betas
Two frequently used network diagnostic tools have gotten beta updates this week. Network Monitor is...
Date: 04/27/2010
Optional Xml Fields
When using DataContractSerializer with a data member that has IsRequired set to false, the generated...
Date: 04/26/2010
Fix for Generating Metadata Behind a Router
When generating metadata to describe a service, an address is published for the location at which...
Date: 04/23/2010
Silverlight 4 Business Application Course
The Silverlight 4 business application training course is a set of videos and labs divided into...
Date: 04/22/2010
Moonlight 3 Preview 6
Moonlight, the Linux version of Silverlight, has produced its sixth preview release of Moonlight 3....
Date: 04/21/2010
WCF RIA Services Release Candidate 2
Late last week a second release candidate for WCF RIA Services was released. RIA Services are an...
Date: 04/20/2010
Download the Moving to Visual Studio 2010 Draft
Moving to Visual Studio 2010 is a developer guide for learning about the new features of Visual...
Date: 04/19/2010
Ten 2010 Services Videos
Ten talks of interest for web service developers from the recent TechDays 2010 and DevDays 2010...
Date: 04/16/2010
Official Start of Azure AppFabric Service
The Service Bus and Access Control online services through Windows Azure AppFabric have now moved...
Date: 04/15/2010
WCF 4 Samples and Training
The WCF 4 sample collection is now available as a direct download independent from the framework or...
Date: 04/14/2010
Silverlight 4 Launch Event
The Silverlight 4 launch event at the DevConnections conference will be taking place today. Starting...
Date: 04/13/2010
Visual Studio 2010 and .Net 4 Released
The release events for Visual Studio 2010 and .Net 4 started this morning and will continue...
Date: 04/12/2010
Finding Your Place
How do I examine the settings for the endpoint that the message for the current operation was...
Date: 04/09/2010
To Appear in the Windows 7 SDK
Shortly after Visual Studio 2010 ships the Windows 7 SDK will be updated to include the development...
Date: 04/08/2010
Starter STS Sample
Dominick Baier has put up the completed StarterSTS sample that demonstrates how to write, configure,...
Date: 04/07/2010
Debugging Delegation and Kerberos Configuration
I came across an interesting tool the other day that can be used to debug and diagnose configuration...
Date: 04/06/2010
Referring to Generic Interfaces in Contracts
How do I write a contract type that has a generic parameter in a service configuration file? A...
Date: 04/05/2010
Rolling Your Own Status
I’m trying to use an HTTP method that has defined a private protocol for status code. What can I do...
Date: 04/02/2010
ServiceHostBase Never Calls ApplyConfiguration
The ServiceHost class is the primary host for running services programmed using the WCF service...
Date: 04/01/2010
Changes to Default Throttle Settings
I buried this in a previous update on changes in .Net 4 but here’s a more prominent description of...
Date: 03/31/2010
Windows Azure Guidance and Survey
The patterns and practices team has released an updated version of their samples for Windows Azure...
Date: 03/30/2010
Channel Development Survey
The WCF channels team has posted a short survey on channel development to collect some of your...
Date: 03/29/2010
Exploring Managed Applications
The new version of Process Explorer that was released this week has some features for exploring...
Date: 03/26/2010
Visual Studio 2010 Virtual Machines
If you'd like to try out some of these recent releases without a dedicated machine, there are...
Date: 03/25/2010
OData SDK Released
OData is a protocol for exchanging structured data sets in an interoperable fashion. The .Net...
Date: 03/24/2010
WCF RIA Services Release Candidate
Together with the Silverlight 4 Release Candidate comes the WCF RIA Services Release Candidate. RIA...
Date: 03/23/2010
Silverlight 4 Release Candidate
At the MIX10 conference last week was the announcement that the Silverlight 4 Release Candidate was...
Date: 03/22/2010
Legacy Created, Obsoleted, and Destroyed Before Shipping
As far as I can tell there has never been a description of what the mysterious...
Date: 03/19/2010
Fix for HTTP Configuration Errors using WebScriptEnablingBehavior
I've sufficiently recovered from running the last week-long series covering fixes for WCF to do...
Date: 03/18/2010
Fix to Allow Providing Outgoing Supporting Tokens
I've sufficiently recovered from running the last week-long series covering fixes for WCF to do...
Date: 03/17/2010
Fix to Disable Transport Security with Message Credentials
I've sufficiently recovered from running the last week-long series covering fixes for WCF to do...
Date: 03/16/2010
Fix to Disable Security on Responses
I've sufficiently recovered from running the last week-long series covering fixes for WCF to do...
Date: 03/15/2010
ASP.NET MVC 2 Released for Visual Studio 2008
Ok, a release of ASP.NET MVC 2 coming soon turned out to mean coming extremely soon. I had been...
Date: 03/12/2010
ASP.NET MVC Migration Tool
Eilon Lipton has posted a migration tool for converting ASP.NET MVC 1 application projects to the...
Date: 03/11/2010
Getting WCF 4 Release Candidate Documentation
Although I didn't include it in the release candidate announcement, the online documentation...
Date: 03/10/2010
Two More Fixes for Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate
Two fixes were published over the last few days to address issues reported with the Visual Studio...
Date: 03/09/2010
Identity and Access Control Guide
The patterns and practices group at Microsoft has released an online guide to claims-based identity...
Date: 03/08/2010