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September 2007 - Posts

Overcoming issues in SvcUtil
Last week, David Pallmann posted this: http://davidpallmann.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!E95EF9DC3FDB978E!260.entry . In it, he points out that the default values for Bindings are typically off and need to be altered. Tomas Restrepo chimed in with an 'I agree' Read More...
Setting up tracing for WCF
I'm just posting this here so that I can refer to the post from the MSDN WCF Forum . SvcTraceViewer is documented in this article on MSDN . The article doesn't have my favorite config for tracing. I much prefer this: <system.diagnostics> <sources> Read More...
SvcUtil generated config
[clarification: I assert below that Thomas' post reminds me of the fact that many people don't know that SvcUtil is a tool that heavily leverages WCF assemblies. The point of this post is to explain where SvcUtil stops and System.ServiceModel/System.Web.Services Read More...
Scaling to call STA COM Objects from WCF Endpoints
A little while ago, Jeff Prosise forwarded a question to me about implementing his single-threaded apartment (STA) workaround for ASMX (see MSDN’s Wicked Code, October 2006 ) in WCF. The reason one does this in the first place is to take an existing set Read More...
Speaking at CNUG: Downers Grove (Dirty Messaging: WCF without SOAP)
Go here to RSVP: http://www.cnug.org/Default.aspx?tabid=40 . The summary is: WCF is all about messaging. Sometimes, the application you are building calls for something simpler than WS-*. JSON, RSS, and ATOM are just a few of the things you can build Read More...
Use net.tcp on localhost only
Here's a little thing I was reminded of while going through the MSDN WCF Forums today: If you have an IPv6 enabled machine and you ask it to listen on an address named 'localhost', what really happens is you listen on two addresses: IPv4: 127.0.0.1 IPv6: Read More...
I hold the title "Kinda Dorky Nerd King"
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Understanding sync vs. async on a WCF Sender
Courtesy of the ThinkTecture blogs, we have this post: http://blogs.thinktecture.com/buddhike/archive/2007/09/01/414926.aspx . Apparently, there is some confusion about how to get a single ChannelFactory instance to hit a single web service using many Read More...