The .NET Endpoint
Blog by the .NET and AppFabric teams about WCF and WF development, deployment, and management
Goodbye .NET Endpoint, Hello AppFabric Team Blog
Over the last year you’ve heard us talking about both Windows Azure AppFabric and Windows...
Date: 05/16/2011
Using DataContracts with WCF Web API
A few folks have been asking if it is possible to serialize/deserialize using the...
Date: 05/14/2011
How to eliminate tempuri.org from your service WSDL
tempuri.org is the default namespace applied to WCF Services and Workflow Services. You can...
Date: 05/12/2011
WCF Extensibility – Operation Selectors
This post is part of a series about WCF extensibility points. For a list of all previous posts and...
Date: 05/10/2011
Constraining what activities can be dropped on a custom activity designer in Windows Workflow Foundation 4
When designing a custom activity that can be used as a container for other activities, you may want...
Date: 05/09/2011
Microsoft.Activities and Microsoft.Activities.UnitTesting now available via NuGet
When I first saw NuGet I knew I had to find a way to take advantage of this great new way to deliver...
Date: 05/09/2011
WCF scales up slowly with bursts of work
A few customers have noticed an issue with WCF scaling up when handling a burst of requests....
Date: 05/04/2011
WCF Extensibility – Message Formatters
This post is part of a series about WCF extensibility points. For a list of all previous posts and...
Date: 05/03/2011
How to detect if the .NET Framework Platform Update 1 is installed
Humans Go to Control Panel / Programs / Programs and Features / View Installed Updates Use the...
Date: 04/29/2011
WCF Extensibility – IParameterInspector
This post is part of a series about WCF extensibility points. For a list of all previous posts and...
Date: 04/28/2011
Programmatically calling validation in a rehosted Workflow 4 designer
The workflow designer has a rich programming model that supports communication with the host. A...
Date: 04/27/2011
How to create a WF4 WorkflowServiceHostFactory for AppFabric Auto-Start
Sometimes when using Windows Workflow Foundation (WF4) you need to create a custom...
Date: 04/27/2011
WebSockets, RIA/JS and WCF Web API at MIX, a whole lotta love for the web
MIX was indeed a busy time for the WCF Team. We delivered several talks, and released several shiny...
Date: 04/24/2011
WCF Extensibility – Message Inspectors
This post is part of a series about WCF extensibility points. For a list of all previous posts and...
Date: 04/23/2011
WF4 State Machine User Experience
State machine is a well-known model for event-driven workflows and a highly requested feature from...
Date: 04/20/2011
WCF Extensibility – Runtime
This post is part of a series about WCF extensibility points. For a list of all previous posts and...
Date: 04/19/2011
Microsoft .NET Framework 4 Platform Update 1
The Microsoft .NET Framework 4 Platform Update 1 released today, 4/18/2011. The Microsoft .NET...
Date: 04/18/2011
WF 4 hosting options: IIS, AppFabric, and Windows Service
Most of the Windows Workflow Foundation samples use workflows that are hosted in a console...
Date: 04/18/2011
WF4 Versioning Spike: Planning for Change
In my investigation of versioning issues with Windows Workflow Foundation I’ve come to one important...
Date: 04/13/2011
WCF Extensibility - IOperationBehavior
This post is part of a series about WCF extensibility points. For a list of all previous posts and...
Date: 04/12/2011
The .NET 4 Platform Update and WF4 State Machine
Update: This went live 4/18/2011, and there are more details here: Microsoft .NET Framework 4...
Date: 04/11/2011
WCF Extensibility – IEndpointBehavior
This post is part of a series about WCF extensibility points. For a list of all previous posts and...
Date: 04/05/2011
(WF4) Why can’t I change the TypeArgument of Switch<> or FlowSwitch<> using the property grid?
I don’t remember anyone ever actually asking me this, but I found myself wondering the question...
Date: 03/31/2011
PDC10–WF4 Session “Windows Workflow Futures”
Last year we at PDC10 we gave you a preview of the next release of Windows Workflow...
Date: 03/31/2011
WCF Extensibility – IContractBehavior
This post is part of a series about WCF extensibility points. For a list of all previous posts and...
Date: 03/30/2011
WCF Extensibility - IServiceBehavior
This post is part of a series about WCF extensibility points. For a list of all previous posts and...
Date: 03/28/2011
AppFabric WCF HTTP Service Template
Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is Microsoft’s unified programming model for building...
Date: 03/23/2011
WCF Extensibility – Behaviors
This post is part of a series about WCF extensibility points. For a list of all previous posts and...
Date: 03/22/2011
ASP.NET WF4 / WCF and Async Calls
How should you use WF4 and WCF with ASP.NET? For this post I’ve created a really simple...
Date: 03/21/2011
Cancelling a WF4 AsyncCodeActivity
Even when AsyncCodeActivity.Cancel is called, the activity will still execute the EndExecute method,...
Date: 03/16/2011
endpoint.tv - WCF Web HTTP (REST) Test Tool Preview
The other day, I walked by the office where our team members from Shanghai work while in Redmond and...
Date: 03/16/2011
AppFabric WCF Service Template (C#)
Now available Download the AppFabric WCF Service Template C# Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)...
Date: 03/11/2011
Using a WF4 SymbolResolver to access host environment information
To access environment information from within an activity, you'll need to use the...
Date: 03/10/2011
Error message in WF4: "The argument of type '' cannot be used. Make sure that it is declared on an activity."
The following error might occur when an activity executes: The argument of type '<type>'...
Date: 03/09/2011
Adding vcard support and bookmarked URIs for specific representations with WCF Web Apis
REST is primarily about 2 things, Resources and Representations. If you’ve seen any of my recent...
Date: 03/07/2011
WCF Web APIs Roundup–Volume 2
Been a while since our last roundup and since my last blog post for that matter! Fortunately there’s...
Date: 03/06/2011
WF 3.5 Persistence and Tracking: Two databases or one?
This refers to the previous version of Workflow, but it came up in a recent discussion, so I thought...
Date: 03/03/2011
WF4 Performance Tip–Cache Activities
When you create a new WorkflowConsole application you will see a line of code like this 1:...
Date: 02/12/2011
WF4: How to Unit Test a Workflow that calls a WCF Service
“The important point is that our test can’t control what that dependency returns to our code under...
Date: 01/20/2011
Windows Server AppFabric and the new Web Platform Installer (3.0)
When the new Web Platform Installer (3.0) was released I had trouble finding Windows Server...
Date: 01/17/2011
WCF Spike FaultContract, FaultException and Validation
Ready to have some fun? Today I spent the day investigating WCF FaulContracts and FaultException and...
Date: 01/14/2011
WF4 Versioning Spike: How To Unit Test Activity Versioning
With the work I’ve been doing on versioning I’ve had to write unit tests that verify the behavior I...
Date: 01/13/2011
WF4 Versioning Spike: IIS Hosted Workflow Services
In my previous post, I’ve been exploring how changing the version of an ActivityLibrary affects a...
Date: 01/10/2011
WF4 Activity Versioning Solution
In my last post I showed you how the _XamlStaticHelper class uses different semantics when loading...
Date: 01/08/2011
WF4 Spike: Activity Versioning, GAC and Loose XAML
In agile software development, a spike is a story that cannot be estimated until a development team...
Date: 01/08/2011
endpoint.tv - A Better State Machine Driven WPF UI
I couldn't leave this one alone. While I was making the last episode I said that there was possibly...
Date: 01/03/2011
New Release Microsoft.Activities.UnitTesting 1.71
Just posted a new release of Microsoft.Activities.UnitTesting This release incorporates the Task...
Date: 12/24/2010
WCF AppFabric Caching Caching Sample Behavior
On Thanksgiving day while I was running in the snow I had an idea – what if you could create an...
Date: 12/13/2010
WCF Web APIs Roundup - Volume 1
A little over a month ago we launched our new WCF Web Apis on Codeplex. Since then a bunch of folks...
Date: 12/12/2010