Carlos Figueira MSDN blog
General thoughts and usage examples about PowerApps, WCF, ASP.NET Web API, Windows Azure Mobile Services, testing and programming in general.
WCF Extensibility – IEndpointBehavior
This post is part of a series about WCF extensibility points. For a list of all previous posts and...
Author: CarlosFigueira Date: 04/04/2011
WCF Extensibility – IContractBehavior
This post is part of a series about WCF extensibility points. For a list of all previous posts and...
Author: CarlosFigueira Date: 03/28/2011
WCF streaming inside data contracts
(A small break from the current WCF extensibility series, as I faced this issue helping a customer...
Author: CarlosFigueira Date: 03/25/2011
WCF Extensibility - IServiceBehavior
This post is part of a series about WCF extensibility points. For a list of all previous posts and...
Author: CarlosFigueira Date: 03/22/2011
WCF Extensibility – Behaviors
This post is part of a series about WCF extensibility points. For a list of all previous posts and...
Author: CarlosFigueira Date: 03/15/2011
WCF Extensibility
Over the next months I intend on writing a series of posts about the (many) extensibility points...
Author: CarlosFigueira Date: 03/14/2011
Using MTOM in a WCF custom encoder
One of the out-of-the-box XML encoders for messages in WCF is the MTOM encoder. It provides an...
Author: CarlosFigueira Date: 02/15/2011
WCF Binary XML and dictionaries
One of the encodings which come with WCF (since its first version, in .NET Framework 3.0) is a fast...
Author: CarlosFigueira Date: 01/26/2011
JsonValue viewer
One more nice tool for the JsonValue API: a WPF control which can be used to view JsonValue graphs....
Author: CarlosFigueira Date: 12/31/2010
Deep event propagation in JsonValue
One of the features added in the latest release of the WCF for jQuery support in Codeplex was the...
Author: CarlosFigueira Date: 12/31/2010
System.Json improvements
Yesterday the WCF team released a new version of the “WCF Support for jQuery” libraries...
Author: CarlosFigueira Date: 12/18/2010
JsonValue pretty printing
Now that the System.Json API has been released (https://wcf.codeplex.com,...
Author: CarlosFigueira Date: 11/02/2010
Working with untyped JSON in a WCF service
Since NetFX 3.5, WCF has support for working with JSON data. You can define your data contracts...
Author: CarlosFigueira Date: 10/29/2010
DataContractJsonSerializer and the “unexpected namespace” error
I’ve seen this error pop up in the forum enough times that I think it’s worth a blog...
Author: CarlosFigueira Date: 09/23/2010
Using relative addresses for services in Silverlight applications
One of the biggest complaints about how Add Service Reference works for Silverlight applications is...
Author: CarlosFigueira Date: 08/09/2010
Enabling cross-domain calls for SL apps on self-hosted TCP services
On a post a couple of years back, I showed a solution to enable cross-domain calls for Silverlight...
Author: CarlosFigueira Date: 07/24/2010
Using TransferMode.StreamedResponse to download files in Silverlight 4
After seeing some questions about this new feature added in Silverlight 4, I decided to post an...
Author: CarlosFigueira Date: 07/08/2010
Changing prefixes in XML responses for WCF services
When responding to requests using any of the text/XML bindings (BasicHttpBinding / WSHttpBinding /...
Author: CarlosFigueira Date: 06/12/2010
Consuming REST/JSON services in Silverlight 4
In the previous post, which talked about the new Web programming model support for SL4, I mentioned...
Author: CarlosFigueira Date: 04/29/2010
Consuming REST/POX services in Silverlight 4
Silverlight 4, which was just released, comes with some functionality to consume REST/POX services...
Author: CarlosFigueira Date: 04/29/2010
Fault support in Silverlight 3
When Silverlight 2 was launched, creating SL apps which handled faults thrown by WCF services was at...
Author: CarlosFigueira Date: 08/15/2009
Chaining async calls in WCF (or in .NET in general)
Recently I had to implement an asynchronous operation which would in turn call another asynchronous...
Author: CarlosFigueira Date: 07/23/2009
WCF "Raw" programming model (Web) - receiving arbitrary data
The previous post mentioned how to return arbitrary data from WCF services. To receive data,...
Author: CarlosFigueira Date: 04/17/2008
WCF "Raw" programming model (Web)
I've seen quite a few times in the forums people asking how to control exactly how the data returned...
Author: CarlosFigueira Date: 04/17/2008
Enabling cross-domain calls for Silverlight apps on self-hosted web services
In order for a Silverlight (or Flash) app coming from one domain to be able to consume data from...
Author: CarlosFigueira Date: 03/07/2008
Writing custom requests to simple WCF services
Quite often one needs to talk to a WCF service, but using a (WCF) proxy is not a viable alternative....
Author: CarlosFigueira Date: 01/13/2008
Quick template for WCF services - Client/server code
When looking at a problem posted at the WCF forums...
Author: CarlosFigueira Date: 12/26/2007
Modifying code-only settings on webhosted services
There are some service settings which cannot be defined via config, only via code. If the service is...
Author: CarlosFigueira Date: 12/26/2007