Nicholas Allen's Indigo Blog
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Web Service Technology Update with RIA Services
I've updated the WCF developer technology page with some of the ASP.NET MVC articles I've posted...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 10/12/2009
Silverlight Documentation Refresh
The documentation for a published product periodically receives corrections and bug fixes in a...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 10/09/2009
Nothing to See Here
What is the System.ServiceModel.Channels.NullMessage used for? The Message class is a central...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 10/08/2009
PDC 2009 Plans
Several new PDC sessions were published recently including one session that I'll be delivering....
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 10/07/2009
Binary Encoding, Part 7
For the last part in the binary encoding series I'll cover how the use of the string table changes...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 10/06/2009
ASP.NET MVC 2 Preview 2
A second preview release of ASP.NET MVC 2 has been released, adding new support for extending...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 10/05/2009
Contract First Development through Schema
Christian Weyer and Buddhike de Silva have an article in this month's MSDN magazine covering...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 10/02/2009
Binary Encoding Exercise Answers
I've gone ahead and put the message in the exercise in a small test program to demonstrate how the...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 10/01/2009
Scott Guthrie Previews Visual Studio 2010 and ASP.NET MVC 2
Channel 9 has two new videos of Scott Guthrie demonstrating features in the upcoming releases of...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 09/30/2009
Binary Encoding Exercise
Now that I've covered the essentials of the binary format, those interested might want to try their...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 09/29/2009
Binary Encoding, Part 6
Past parts in the series: Binary Encoding, Part 1 Binary Encoding, Part 2 Binary Encoding, Part 3...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 09/28/2009
Using Polling Duplex Scaled Out
Tomasz Janczuk has posted another example using the HTTP polling duplex channel in Silverlight to...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 09/25/2009
Guide to the WCF REST Starter Kit Preview
We've got a new article up on MSDN by Aaron Skonnard that covers the most recent preview release of...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 09/24/2009
Binary Encoding, Part 5
Past parts in the series: Binary Encoding, Part 1 Binary Encoding, Part 2 Binary Encoding, Part 3...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 09/23/2009
Binary Encoding, Part 4
Past parts in the series: Binary Encoding, Part 1 Binary Encoding, Part 2 Binary Encoding, Part 3...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 09/22/2009
October Changes to .Net Services
Another CTP release is coming for the .Net Services cloud offering in October and again there are...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 09/21/2009
Missing Binary Encoding Update
The fourth part of the binary encoding series was scheduled to go up Friday but went missing at some...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 09/21/2009
Binary Encoding, Part 3
Past parts in the series: Binary Encoding, Part 1 Binary Encoding, Part 2 Today I’ll talk about the...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 09/17/2009
ASP.NET AJAX Preview 5
The fifth preview of the new ASP.NET AJAX features for future versions of the framework is now...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 09/16/2009
Binary Encoding, Part 2
The binary format we developed is based on a tokenized stream of records and a few Huffman-like...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 09/15/2009
Windows Management Release Candidate
The Windows Management Framework has put out a release candidate porting some of the management...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 09/14/2009
Binary Encoding, Part 1
This series on the .Net Binary Encoding protocol is going to be similar to the earlier series I did...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 09/11/2009
Business of Cloud Services (for Developers)
Over on Channel 9 George Moore has a video talking about the commercialization and billing aspects...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 09/10/2009
Deciphering HTTP Server API Error Codes
If you’ve tried using the HttpListener API to build a web server, then you may have noticed that...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 09/09/2009
Some History of the Named Pipe, Part 4
Here are the past articles in the series to get up to date: Some History of the Named Pipe, Part 1...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 09/08/2009
Labor Day 2009 and an HTTP Question
Today is a US national holiday, which generally means I don’t put up a post due to the drastically...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 09/07/2009
PDC 2009 Session Update
We’ve got a new round of talks uploaded to the PDC site if you’ll be attending the conference. Ed...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 09/04/2009
Silverlight 3 GDR 2
Silverlight 3 has been updated with a small set of bug fixes and support for the GB18030 code page...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 09/03/2009
Were You Able to Get Started Quickly with WCF?
The other day I noticed Brad Abrams plugging the book Silverlight 3 Jumpstart (I’ve only flipped...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 09/02/2009
Understanding Different Kinds of Versioning
In the .Net framework there are a number of notions of versioning that we worry about for a release....
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 09/01/2009
Some History of the Named Pipe, Part 3
Some History of the Named Pipe, Part 1 (Unix pipes) Some History of the Named Pipe, Part 2 (Unix...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 08/31/2009
WCF Essentials Article Series
Over on MSDN, Michele Bustamante will be doing a biweekly series called WCF Essentials on best...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 08/28/2009
Some History of the Named Pipe, Part 2
Some History of the Named Pipe, Part 1 (Unix pipes) Some History of the Named Pipe, Part 2 (Unix...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 08/27/2009
Some History of the Named Pipe, Part 1
Some History of the Named Pipe, Part 1 (Unix pipes) Some History of the Named Pipe, Part 2 (Unix...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 08/26/2009
Data Deserialization Order
Why are the members of a data contract expected in a particular order in order to be read? The order...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 08/25/2009
What’s New in WCF 4: More on Services and Configuration
This list is a bit different in places from what you’ve seen in the beta 1 release and there’s...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 08/24/2009
Overriding Namespaces from Serialization
I’ve defined my own XML namespaces for the members of a data contract and now when I generate the...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 08/21/2009
Silverlight 3 Firestarter Sessions
The broader Silverlight team is running a one day event here at Microsoft on September 17 to talk...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 08/20/2009
One Minute Survey: WCF PDC Topics
What would you most like to see at PDC for WCF? New features in WCF for .Net 4 How to use WCF better...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 08/19/2009
Moonlight 2 Beta 1
Moonlight, an open source implementation of Silverlight for Linux systems, has released their...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 08/18/2009
What’s New in WCF 4: Performance
This list is a bit different in places from what you’ve seen in the beta 1 release and there’s...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 08/17/2009
What’s New in WCF 4: Alternative List
Aaron Skonnard also has a list going on MSDN of new features for WCF in .Net 4. Our lists are going...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 08/14/2009
Using TCP Analyzer to Debug TCP Performance
Microsoft Research has a Network Monitor 3.3 plugin called TCP Analyzer that helps identify...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 08/13/2009
What’s New in WCF 4: Channels
As we get closer to the release of .Net 4 it becomes easier to talk about exactly what new features...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 08/12/2009
Experiments in Writing
A month ago I asked for feedback on whether you’d be interested in occasionally seeing some longer...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 08/11/2009
Technologies of Interest to WCF Developers
This article summarizes some of the Microsoft products and technologies that I've talked about as...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 08/11/2009
Windows API Code Pack V1 Released
Going along with Windows 7, the final version of the Windows API Code Pack was released last week....
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 08/10/2009
Windows 7 (and Orcas SP1) SDK Released
The final version of the Windows 7 SDK is now available. If you've been using the beta SDK releases...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 08/07/2009
PDC 2009 Registration Starts
The 2009 Professional Developers Conference will be held this year from Tuesday November 17th to...
Author: Nicholas Allen Date: 08/06/2009