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Wenlong Dong's Blog
7 Sep 2008 05:13
.Net 4.0, Wf/Wcf, And Oslo
Lately I have been quite busy working on .NET 4.0 which will be the next major side-by-side release of .NET Framework since .NET 2.0. It will be unve..

Nicholas Allen's Indigo Blog
5 Sep 2008 12:00
Fxcop Target Rules
To go along with yesterday's post on targeting a particular version of the framework for proxy generation , FxCop 1.36 supports some new features for..

Nicholas Allen's Indigo Blog
4 Sep 2008 12:00
Getting Better Time Formats
Orcas introduced a new DateTimeOffset class that is easier to use for representing absolute times than the original DateTime class. However, if you r..

Nicholas Allen's Indigo Blog
3 Sep 2008 12:00
Composing Compression And Encryption
Encryption is counterproductive for compression if the two features aren't used together correctly. Generally, you want to compress first and then en..

Nicholas Allen's Indigo Blog
2 Sep 2008 12:00
Waiting For Ready Channels
When I create a channel to a service, how do I know when the service is ready to process the data for that channel? A channel doesn't really know wha..

Nicholas Allen's Indigo Blog
29 Aug 2008 12:00
Orcas Sp1 Source Code Server Update
The reference source server for debugging into framework code is underway with propagating a new release of source code for Orcas SP1.  The foll..

Nicholas Allen's Indigo Blog
28 Aug 2008 12:00
Pdc Schedule Builder
There are still no assigned times yet, but I noticed that the PDC schedule builder is working better and is starting to have a lot more data so you c..

Nicholas Allen's Indigo Blog
27 Aug 2008 12:00
Avoiding Infinite Schema Chains
I was working on some services with recursive data structures when I noticed that there were a few cases where I would get crashes while trying to ge..

Nicholas Allen's Indigo Blog
26 Aug 2008 12:00
Silverlight-Java Interoperability
Robert Bell wrote an article a few weeks ago discussing how to achieve interoperability between a Silverlight application and a Java application . In..

Nicholas Allen's Indigo Blog
25 Aug 2008 12:00
Pipe Properties
How can I find the pipe object on the system created by a named pipe binding? The simplest way to find the named pipe is to use a tool like Process E..

Nicholas Allen's Indigo Blog
22 Aug 2008 12:00
Autoheader Extension
I frequently get asked how to add a header to every outgoing request so I wrote up a quick reusable approach. This adds some extension methods to the..

Nicholas Allen's Indigo Blog
21 Aug 2008 12:00
Reflector Changes Hands
The news yesterday was that tool vendor Red Gate has acquired the immensely popular .NET Reflector tool developed by Lutz Roeder. Reflector is probabl..

Nicholas Allen's Indigo Blog
20 Aug 2008 12:00
Visualizing Orcas Sp1
Patrick Smacchia has done some analysis on SP1 using the NDepend tool to compare different versions of assemblies. This is an interesting way to unde..

Nicholas Allen's Indigo Blog
19 Aug 2008 12:00
Framework Design Guidelines, 2nd Edition
Brad Abrams and Krzysztof Cwalina have got an early access version of the Framework Design Guidelines, 2nd Edition available for purchase, along with..

Nicholas Allen's Indigo Blog
18 Aug 2008 12:00
Streaming Web Content
How do I deliver content from a WCF service as part of a web page? Web page content in this case typically refers to HTML, images, or other data that..

Nicholas Allen's Indigo Blog
15 Aug 2008 12:00
Using Faults With Untyped Messages
When using a typed contract, incoming messages on the server are shredded on your behalf to be turned into method calls and parameters. Ordinarily, t..

Nicholas Allen's Indigo Blog
14 Aug 2008 12:00
Orcas Screencasts
One last bit of Orcas news for this week. PluralSight will be providing a weekly screencast throughout the year on using WF and WCF. They're focusing..

Nicholas Allen's Indigo Blog
13 Aug 2008 12:00
Orcas Training Kit Updated
With Orcas SP1 having come out, the training kit has been updated for SP1 as well, along with new and updated labs and presentations in several of th..

Wenlong Dong's Blog
13 Aug 2008 07:19
Orcas Sp1 Improvement: Asynchronous Wcf Http Module/Handler For Iis7 For Better Server Scalability
Introduction As mentioned in my last blog entry , for IIS-hosted WCF services, WCF holds the worker thread coming from ASP.NET until the whole reques..

Nicholas Allen's Indigo Blog
12 Aug 2008 12:00
Orcas Sp1 Released
The first service pack for .NET Framework 3.5 came out yesterday, primarily focusing on fixing bugs and performance issues.  There are some new ..