Nicholas Allen's Indigo Blog 10 Oct 2008 12:00 Diagnosing Common Queue Errors MSMQ reports many common errors using generic error messages. For example, opening a queue might give you an error message that looks like this. An e..
Nicholas Allen's Indigo Blog 9 Oct 2008 12:00 Programming Language Talks On Channel 9 Channel 9 is posting a collection of videos from the JAOO conference on programming language design that I found really interesting. JAOO stands for ..
Nicholas Allen's Indigo Blog 8 Oct 2008 12:00 Working With Session State One concept that sometimes confuses ASP.NET developers when moving to WCF is the notion of session state. In ordinary WCF services, all of the sessio..
Nicholas Allen's Indigo Blog 7 Oct 2008 12:00 Addressing Dynamic Hosts Continuing the series on Internet history, fifteen years ago marked the creation of a standard for dynamically defining the network configuration of ..
kennyw.com 6 Oct 2008 15:46 Interested In Performance? Distributed applications are tricky. The internet is a fickle beast that will lost data at will and run counter to many intuitions. Getting distribut..
Nicholas Allen's Indigo Blog 6 Oct 2008 12:00 Common Problems Composing Security With Streaming Security and streaming are two features that often do not get along with each other. Although the concepts are not inherently in conflict, their impl..
Wenlong Dong's Blog 6 Oct 2008 04:16 Top Wf/Wcf Sessions In Pdc2008 There are still 21 days to go until the PDC . Are you excited to attend those fascinating technical sessions ? You might have noticed that we have th..
kennyw.com 3 Oct 2008 15:56 Wcf Talks At Pdc Matt posted a great description of the WCF (and WF) talks we're giving at PDC. In particular there are two sessions that I'd like to call out. The fi..
Nicholas Allen's Indigo Blog 3 Oct 2008 12:00 .Net 4.0 And Dublin Earlier this week came the official announcement of the .NET Framework 4.0 and the application server role extensions in Windows Server called Dublin..
Nicholas Allen's Indigo Blog 2 Oct 2008 12:00 Zen Of Wcf Performance And Scale While I wait for the title and abstract of my PDC talk to be updated with the correct content, here is what you can expect. The theme of the talk is ..
Nicholas Allen's Indigo Blog 1 Oct 2008 12:00 Introduction To Wcf In Japanese Nobuyuki Akama has started a series of articles that give a very good introduction to WCF. The first two articles in the series have been posted so f..
Nicholas Allen's Indigo Blog 30 Sep 2008 12:00 Using Etw Tracing Whenever I've talked about tracing I've always used the System.Diagnostics trace listeners in the example. However, there's a second tracing system t..
Nicholas Allen's Indigo Blog 29 Sep 2008 12:00 No Choice For Data Contracts I have a schema file that describes a choice between multiple layout formats for a type. How do I build a proxy that matches this schema? The reason ..
Nicholas Allen's Indigo Blog 26 Sep 2008 12:00 Silverlight 2 Release Candidate Last night a release candidate for the Silverlight 2 developer runtime and tools went live. This release candidate lets developers update their appli..
Nicholas Allen's Indigo Blog 25 Sep 2008 12:00 Windows 7 At Pdc Yesterday came with the announcement that Windows 7 would be making a public appearance at PDC. The PDC sessions list has been updated with over twen..
Nicholas Allen's Indigo Blog 24 Sep 2008 12:00 Digital Healthcare Case Study A few weeks ago Ythos posted an interesting case study for migrating a healthcare application to Orcas . The case study covers a lot of ground includ..
Nicholas Allen's Indigo Blog 23 Sep 2008 12:00 Hosted Service Shutdown I've talked a bit in the past about the tradeoffs of using IIS to host your service applications. In order to use IIS as a host, you must give up som..
Nicholas Allen's Indigo Blog 22 Sep 2008 12:00 Managed Application Deployment Survey Peter Marcu is looking for people that are responsible for the deployment or installation programs of a .NET application to answer a few questions. T..
Nicholas Allen's Indigo Blog 19 Sep 2008 12:00 Ephemeral Port Limits Every time you open a connection to another machine you need to have a port both at the local machine and the remote machine for exchanging data. The..
Nicholas Allen's Indigo Blog 18 Sep 2008 12:00 Avoiding The Routing Explosion Fifteen years ago, a change to the way IP addresses were assigned was the first major step taken to combat the problem "the Internet is rapidly runni..