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Feb 10 Tue
WCF Installation Status can be Quickly Checked
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..."
Jan 19 Mon
Software Testing with PowerShell - Here are the Advantages
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:"
Jan 16 Fri
How to Create Runspaces in PowerShell
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...."
Jan 15 Thu
Tips on Debugging HTTP Requests Using Proxies
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..."
Jan 14 Wed
WCF NetMsmqBinding Error The Queue Does Not Exist
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..."
Jan 13 Tue
Silverlight 2 - Handling WCF Service References
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..."
Jan 12 Mon
How to Create and Consume a Basic WCF Service Hosted in IIS
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...."
Dec 1 Mon
Resolving Windows 2003 SBS 2003 Reboot Hangs
Michael B Smith writes "...I certainly won't promise you that it solves all of the issues - but I've not seen a hang since I installed the last version of this patch. A version of the hotfix is available for both Windows Server 2003 sp1 and sp2..."
Nov 24 Mon
Workaround For WCF NetMsmqBinding Bug
Keith Elder writes "There is an extremely nasty bug in WCF...that I have discovered as of late. I know it is a bug because after several weeks with an open support call into Microsoft it was confirmed as a bug. It was so perplexing because it was hard to replicate...here is the workaround for this..."
Nov 20 Thu
Future of Correlation Examples
Nicholas Allen writes "The correlation query describes the structure or piece of information that you'll be correlating on. This information may be part of a message, a message header, or maybe even some function that gets run that doesn't depend on the message at all. Some of the queries will return matches and produce query results...For example,"
Oct 27 Mon
Azure Cost and 3rd Party Demo
Dan Rigsby writes "...There will be a lot more announced as we get closer to release, but Ray did note that cost will be based on: application resources consumption and service level agreements....3rd party demo of Windows Azure was an application called...This is a silverlight application that uses REST based services"
Oct 24 Fri
Important Questions for Successful Governance
Todd Biske writes "I suggest that it begins with articulating the desired behavior....If you just establish policies and then focus on enforcement, but never stop to look and see if complying with the policies actually results in the desired behavior, you may not achieve the intended success..."
Incremental SOA Governance - Not Too Far Too Fast
Ayanthi Anandagoda writes "Governance is critical for a SOA deployment. It is also often not implemented early enough in SOA deployments. Can governance itself be distracting...An open source solution where only the training and support are cost items, is a more suitable approach in a phased SOA implementation..."
Oct 17 Fri
CryptDeriveKey Always Uses the Same Code Path for AES
David LeBlanc writes "We have a new version of MS-OFFCRYPTO out. The big change is that how CryptDeriveKey was documented on MSDN was incorrect, we copied it, which made our document also incorrect. As it turns out, CryptDeriveKey always uses the same code path for AES as it does as if the hash output is shorter than the needed key. Several people have written me about this..."
Oct 6 Mon
Decision Rights Depending on the Focus Can Create Fiefdoms of Power
Todd Biske writes "Decision rights are certainly part of governance, but a view that makes them the defining part is wrong, in my opinion. If we focus too much on decision rights and not enough on decisions, we are at risk of creating fiefdoms of power that perpetuate the negative, command and control view of governance. If we focus on policies that enable anyone to make the correct decisions..."
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