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Deep Linking Your Way Out of Home Realm Discovery

Vittorio Bertocci — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 00:51:46 GMT

Vittorio Bertocci writes, "This method is not a solution to home realm discovery, rather it is a “shortcut” that piggybacks on existing home real discovery solutions which must be in place for this to work. Furthermore, this has to be arranged by every partner and relies completely on the fact that the users will access the application through the specially crafter URL as opposed to..." more

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 00:51:46 GMT

Sample Using WCF 4.0 XAML Services

Jesus Rodriguez — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:44:39 GMT

Jesus Rodriguez writes, "...In a nutshell, declarative services are WCF services modeled and implemented entirely in XAML...Even though this is a very simplistic scenario, hopefully it will give you a starting point to realize the benefits of declarative services in traditional service oriented environments..." more

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:44:39 GMT

SPWCFSupport.codeplex.com Release

Sahil Malik — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 18:57:08 GMT

Sahil Malik writes, "...got around to creating a release and a .wsp for spwcfsupport.codeplex.com. The project has gotten very popular, so I went ahead and created an easy to use release here..." more

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 18:57:08 GMT

3 Choices When Performing Address Filtering

Nicholas Allen — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 18:25:46 GMT

Nicholas Allen writes, "The use of different matching models for associating messages and endpoints is part of the local behavior of the service. You can specify how to do matching using the AddressFilterMode property on the ServiceBehavior attribute..." more

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 18:25:46 GMT

Fix For WCF NetMsmqBinding Not Picking Up Messages in Queue

Keith Elder — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 20:55:28 GMT

Keith Elder writes, "When hosting WCF services using the NetMsmqBinding in IIS7/WAS (Windows Activation Service) the application times out after 20 minutes... When the application is timed out, if a new message arrives in the queue, the WCF service remains idle. In other words messages will just pile up in the queue...Here is what you should do if you run into this problem..." more

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 20:55:28 GMT

Two Options to Clear PowerShell Runspace Before Debugging

Dmitry Sotnikov — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 16:17:17 GMT

Dmitry Sotnikov writes, "...to clear the PowerShell runspace each time you start debugging a script:...Here’s the rule of thumb on picking the option you need:...Pick “Run all scripts in the same runspace” if you want the editor to behave like a PowerShell command line..." more

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 16:17:17 GMT

Manipulating PowerShell Hidden Files

Richard Siddaway — Sat, 30 May 2009 13:57:17 GMT

Richard Siddaway writes, "...hidden files and file attributes and how we can manipulate them in PowerShell. Lets start by creating a PowerShell script..." more

Sat, 30 May 2009 13:57:17 GMT

Multiple PowerShell Runspaces in PowerGUI Editor

Dmitry Sotnikov — Thu, 28 May 2009 12:26:53 GMT

Dmitry Sotnikov writes, "By default, PowerGUI Script Editor is a single instance application – all scripts get opened as different tabs on the same window, and all the scripts and interactive commands in the same PowerShell session. They “see” the same variables and so on. This however is very easy to change. Just go to..." more

Thu, 28 May 2009 12:26:53 GMT

How to Remove Hidden Files in PowerShell

Richard Siddaway — Thu, 28 May 2009 12:21:48 GMT

Richard Siddaway writes, "I used the OneNote 2007 Side Note utility this morning and for some reason it created a table of contents file ( .onetoc2 ) file in each of the folders in which I keep my PowerShell...there are more of them than I want to delete by hand...Get-ChildItem doesn’t show them – they are hidden files so we need to use..." more

Thu, 28 May 2009 12:21:48 GMT

Load Generation Code Sample Using WCF Services with Axum

Jesus Rodriguez — Fri, 22 May 2009 22:49:53 GMT

Jesus Rodriguez writes, "Our client application will interact with the service using WCF’s channel API...Creating WCF artifacts such as messages or channels can introduce potential side effects into Axum’s runtime. In order to mitigate these side effects, we can abstract the access to the message and channel factories using the following isolated class..." more

Fri, 22 May 2009 22:49:53 GMT

Session on Building RESTful Services Using WCF Convinced Me

Håkan Forss — Fri, 15 May 2009 20:34:24 GMT

Håkan Forss writes, "A very good session that was very useful for me. I'm not that into the RESTful architecture but this session showed me that adding RESTful functionality to a WCF based service layer is very easy so I see no reason..." more

Fri, 15 May 2009 20:34:24 GMT

Introduction to Routing Capabilities in WCF4

Christian Weyer — Mon, 11 May 2009 13:50:38 GMT

Christian Weyer writes, "...There is a generic routing service in WCF4 which enables routing for diiferent message exchange patterns (MEPs). The responsible class is System.ServiceModel.Routing.RoutingService...The routing service in WCF4 uses message filters in order to route messages. Message filters have always been in WCF since the first version and just now have a prominent role and also got some new filters. This is the list of available message filters:" more

Mon, 11 May 2009 13:50:38 GMT

MVVM Toolkit for WPF - Tried and Recommended

Darryl Schaffer — Mon, 04 May 2009 20:19:15 GMT

Darryl Schaffer writes, "I just installed it, went through the documentation/walkthrough. I’d definitely recommend taking a look at this! I hope there is something like this in the works for Silverlight..." more

Mon, 04 May 2009 20:19:15 GMT

WCF Installation Status can be Quickly Checked

Nicholas Allen — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 01:58:49 GMT

Nicholas Allen writes, "...by looking for the registry keys put in place by the installer. Take a look at the values under the key:...These include the DWORD InstallSuccess (should be equal to 1) as well as the version and installation paths..." more

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 01:58:49 GMT

Software Testing with PowerShell - Here are the Advantages

Jeffrey Snover — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 00:33:20 GMT

Jeffrey Snover writes, "on our internal discussion list, someone asked if there were any advantages to testing with PowerShell versus testing with C#. I was able to come up with 10 quick reasons to test with PowerShell:" more

Tue, 20 Jan 2009 00:33:20 GMT

How to Create Runspaces in PowerShell

Joe Pruitt — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 22:45:43 GMT

Joe Pruitt writes, "...The core to PowerShell is the runtime, the execution engine that implements command processing...The following example creates a Runspace based off the RunspaceConfiguration defined in the MyConsole.psc1 configuration file...." more

Fri, 16 Jan 2009 22:45:43 GMT

Tips on Debugging HTTP Requests Using Proxies

Nicholas Allen — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:42:32 GMT

Nicholas Allen writes, "...When using HTTP with the text encoding both the SOAP messages and HTTP protocol information are directly readable. Even when using HTTP with the binary encoding, the protocol information is readable though the SOAP messages..." more

Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:42:32 GMT

WCF NetMsmqBinding Error The Queue Does Not Exist

Keith Elder — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 00:28:25 GMT

Keith Elder writes, "...Hopefully me spending several minutes to write down a problem we recently ran into at work working with WCF and the NetMsmqBinding will save some of you a lot of time. If you’ve landed on this page here is the error you might be seeing..." more

Thu, 15 Jan 2009 00:28:25 GMT

Silverlight 2 - Handling WCF Service References

John Papa — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 20:40:12 GMT

John Papa writes, "...When developing a Silverlight 2 project that uses WCF service references or ...Astoria references, and you want to push the builds to a test server, there are a few changes that need to be made so the references point to the test server and not the dev box..." more

Tue, 13 Jan 2009 20:40:12 GMT

How to Create and Consume a Basic WCF Service Hosted in IIS

Tess Ferrandez — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 21:27:52 GMT

Tess Ferrandez writes, "This tutorial is mostly for myself so that I’ll remember what I did, but hopefully it might benefit some other people too…The WCF service I will create here (MyGameService) is one that will keep track of all the games for my game site...." more

Mon, 12 Jan 2009 21:27:52 GMT