August 2007 - Posts
At Catalyst, we typically engage in 'solutions' projects. That is, a customer has a need, we fill that need by doing the entire project: in depth requirements gathering, specs, architecture, PM, and dev. This whole process creates a lot of documentation
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Steve Maine has a great summary post over here about how WCF stacks up against WebSphere/EJB. Summary of the summary: WCF is a lot faster than the competition. Reason: the guys who lead the performance effort on WCF were great teachers. They helped all
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I'm sharing this in case someone else runs into the same issue. I setup Windows Server 2008 June CTP in a Virtual PC 2007 VM this evening. I couldn't get it to see my network. Finally, I found this combination worked: 1. Tell Virtual PC which network
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I’ve been playing around a lot with the SilverLight 1.1 Alpha bits. I’m finally acquiring some knowledge of XAML and how it works—don’t expect anything amazing from me on this front for a long time. I have been trying to acquire some knowledge of how
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There is this misconception amongst WCF users that MessageEncoderBindingElements actually create a channel in a WCF channel stack. This is just wrong. I’ve seen the idea that MessageEncoders are channels published in books, discussed the issue with users,
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As a Vista user and supposed 'good influence' on my fellow developers, I've been strongly resisting the urge to turn off the User Account Control when doing development. So far, so good. One area that almost had me was developing WCF services that listen
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Arun Gupta recently asked what the use cases are for WSDualHttpBinding over here . To save you some time, his article notes (correctly) that the binding exposes some WSDL that is WCF specific, using Microsoft namespaces. I've got no issues here. He then
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