Nicholas Allen's Indigo Blog 3 Jul 2008 12:00 Pdc Sessions Round 2 The PDC website is doing a monthly countdown to the event by publishing session abstracts as they lock down. The July update is the second in this se..
Nicholas Allen's Indigo Blog 2 Jul 2008 12:00 Timeout Error Messages You will sometimes get an error message that mentions a timeout value. You can recognize these error messages by virtue of their containing a long an..
kennyw.com 1 Jul 2008 17:44 Wf/Wcf July Msdn Webcasts Starting last month, MSDN put together a regular series of webcasts on WCF and WF (focusing on .Net 3.5). Here are the talks being broadcast in..
Nicholas Allen's Indigo Blog 1 Jul 2008 12:00 Web Service Webcasts In July Four more webcasts are coming this month to talk about some of the new web service features in Orcas. Each webcast is aimed at developers and lasts 6..
Nicholas Allen's Indigo Blog 30 Jun 2008 12:00 Json Service Speed I've been playing with the DataContractJsonSerializer that comes with Orcas recently to produce some JSON-based services. DataContractJsonSerializer ..
Nicholas Allen's Indigo Blog 27 Jun 2008 12:00 Framework Repairs Spotted on Aaron Stebner's blog last night is an article for repairing or uninstalling Orcas from the command line . Having these commands handy is t..
Nicholas Allen's Indigo Blog 26 Jun 2008 12:00 Another Last Call For Xml Schema 1.1 New working drafts have been published for XSD 1.1, which starts a last call period for comments lasting from now until September 12th. The previous ..
Nicholas Allen's Indigo Blog 25 Jun 2008 12:00 Pinvoke Interop Assistant I noticed a new tool on CodePlex the other day called the PInvoke Interop Assistant that automatically converts between managed and unmanaged type si..
Nicholas Allen's Indigo Blog 24 Jun 2008 12:00 Security Session Inactivity What does the InactivityTimeout on a secure channel do? The inactivity timeout on a message security channel controls how long the channel will allow..
Nicholas Allen's Indigo Blog 23 Jun 2008 12:00 How Webservicehost Works WebServiceHost is a new feature in Orcas that makes it easy to put up simple web services that are built on HTTP and POX. However, there's no require..
Nicholas Allen's Indigo Blog 20 Jun 2008 12:00 Mapping Client Certificates Whenever my service receives a message the service operation fails because the user identity is not mapped to a Windows identity. How can I make this..
Nicholas Allen's Indigo Blog 19 Jun 2008 12:00 Serializing Xml To Xml How should I represent raw XML content in a contract? It seems like it would be really easy to have within the large blob of XML that makes up a mess..
Nicholas Allen's Indigo Blog 18 Jun 2008 12:00 Other Technologies You Might Find Interesting There were two CTP releases recently of technology that don't directly focus on web services but you might find that they make developing services ea..
Nicholas Allen's Indigo Blog 17 Jun 2008 12:00 Acting On Open How do I run a custom event once when the service is first started? The easiest way to execute some custom code when a service is started is to hook ..
Nicholas Allen's Indigo Blog 16 Jun 2008 12:00 Serialization Temporary Assemblies The XmlSerializer is one of the options WCF provides for mapping between XML and strongly-typed objects. An XmlSerializer is generally preferred over..
Nicholas Allen's Indigo Blog 13 Jun 2008 12:00 Network Monitor 3.2 Beta Earlier this week a new beta release came out for Network Monitor. Although the beta has a variety of new features, the one I'm most interested in is..
Nicholas Allen's Indigo Blog 12 Jun 2008 12:00 You Are Here Inside of a service method, how do I know where the message was delivered? Without defining what distinguishes a location it's hard to explain where ..
Nicholas Allen's Indigo Blog 11 Jun 2008 12:00 Web Service Webcasts In June Five webcasts are coming this month to talk about some of the new web service features in Orcas. Each webcast is aimed at developers and lasts 60-90 ..
Nicholas Allen's Indigo Blog 10 Jun 2008 12:00 Tracing Network Calls Many common networking problems can be diagnosed by tracing System.Net events. This is often much easier than setting up packet captures or other sof..
Nicholas Allen's Indigo Blog 9 Jun 2008 12:00 Silverlight 2 Beta 2 A promised Beta 2 was released later last week. In this case, later meant Friday after everyone went home so I updated the original article with a li..