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Back to the good old days?
I remember the joys of being a MFC/ATL developer in the 1990s. I could step through all the Microsoft code except for the system DLLs. Thanks to this visibility, I fixed my bugs faster, got an excellent view of how the framework underneath me worked, Read More...
Use cases for WSDualHttpBinding (and duplex contracts in general)
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 Read More...
Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2, .NET 3.5 are out!
You can join in the fun over here: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/default.aspx . I'm looking forward to seeing how much of the stuff in the WCF preview bits at labs.biztalk.net have made their way into this build. I'm loving the WebGet stuff Read More...
My IIS7 whitepaper is up!
http://www.catalystss.com/Articles/Advanced%20Development%20on%20IIS7.pdf . The latest release of IIS saw a heavy focus on modularization and integration. This focus has made IIS7 the most customizable release of IIS ever. This modularization and integration Read More...
JSON and System.Runtime.Serialization (and System.ServiceModel.Web)
With System.Runtime.Serialization , you only need to be able to transform data to and from some ‘wire representation’ to an XML Infoset . Whether that thing looks like XML or not when printed doesn’t matter. The .NET 3.5 framework is going to ship with Read More...
Visual Studio 2005 Update for Vista is out
I just saw this posted: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=90e2942d-3ad1-4873-a2ee-4acc0aace5b6&DisplayLang=en . The download is 28.9 MB. From start of download to complete install took me 26 minutes ("Time remaining: 0 seconds" Read More...