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Links to the best blogs on WCF (Windows Communication Foundation).


Nicholas Allen's Indigo Blog
4 Dec 2008 13:00
An Alternative Queuing Model
Before talking about the new model for queued transports that we've added to WCF 4.0, let's first look at the traditional transacted receive pattern...

Nicholas Allen's Indigo Blog
3 Dec 2008 13:00
Aaron Skonnard Wcf Screencasts
I mentioned a few months ago that there would be a series of WCF screencasts being published. Aaron has done a bunch of these, including putting two ..

Nicholas Allen's Indigo Blog
2 Dec 2008 13:00
Average Of Anniversaries
I haven't previously denoted an anniversary date for WCF because there are so many to choose from. There's the date we were done, the date that downl..

Nicholas Allen's Indigo Blog
1 Dec 2008 13:00
Future Of Queuing
Another of the topics that you'll hear a lot about for asynchronous and decoupled programming in WCF 4.0 is queuing. WCF has previously supported que..

Nicholas Allen's Indigo Blog
26 Nov 2008 13:00
Managed Extensibility Framework Preview Update
Another preview release ( preview 3 ) for the Managed Extensibility Framework went live yesterday. MEF is a component system for building application..

Nicholas Allen's Indigo Blog
25 Nov 2008 13:00
Introduction To Monadic Programming
Since I'm on the topic of highly distributed, concurrent, and asynchronous programming I thought I'd mention some of the other research that is going..

Nicholas Allen's Indigo Blog
24 Nov 2008 13:00
Correlation Under The Hood
You'll probably want to have read the previous articles about correlation for this to make sense. Future of Correlation Future of Correlation Example..

Nicholas Allen's Indigo Blog
21 Nov 2008 13:00
Message Filters And Queries
Since a message filter and message query share a similar heritage, let's start by looking at the conceptually simpler message filter APIs. You probab..

Nicholas Allen's Indigo Blog
20 Nov 2008 13:00
Future Of Correlation Examples
Last time I talked about how WCF 4.0 standardizes many different types of correlations using a query mechanism and promised to go into more detail to..

Nicholas Allen's Indigo Blog
19 Nov 2008 13:00
Future Of Correlation
One of the topics that you'll hear a lot about for asynchronous and decoupled programming in WCF 4.0 is correlation. Correlation is a relationship be..

Nicholas Allen's Indigo Blog
18 Nov 2008 13:00
Like Going To The Post Office
For a long time it's been true that the average personal computer is not well-suited to running highly available public facing services. In the origi..

Nicholas Allen's Indigo Blog
17 Nov 2008 13:00
Framework Training Kit Preview
Last week a preview training kit was posted for Visual Studio 2010 and .Net Framework 4.0. A training kit is a collection of presentations, labs, and..

Nicholas Allen's Indigo Blog
14 Nov 2008 13:00
The Future Of Wcf, Part 2
Having read part 1 will be helpful. As I mentioned last time, there were two markets in particular that I thought were interesting for web service de..

Nicholas Allen's Indigo Blog
13 Nov 2008 13:00
The Future Of Wcf, Part 1
It's been two years since we shipped the first release of WCF (codenamed Indigo). It was actually even a little before that that I started thinking a..

Nicholas Allen's Indigo Blog
12 Nov 2008 13:00
1 Question Survey On Configuration
Since I did the survey question on extensibility, I thought I'd do this followup on configuration. The two are often talked about together but have v..

Nicholas Allen's Indigo Blog
11 Nov 2008 13:00
Silverlight Unit Test Framework
A few weeks ago the Silverlight Toolkit was released to extend the existing set of controls and components in Silverlight 2. I noticed that last week ..

Nicholas Allen's Indigo Blog
10 Nov 2008 13:00
1 Question Extensibility Survey
WCF has a whole lot of extensibility points. Many of those extensibility points use similar systems for describing and installing extensions, but ove..

Nicholas Allen's Indigo Blog
7 Nov 2008 13:00
The Web Services Track
As a way to wrap up on PDC content I thought I'd do a bit of indexing to highlight the different areas of activity over the the next few years for ge..

Nicholas Allen's Indigo Blog
6 Nov 2008 13:00
2009 Conference Schedule
Now that we're winding down on 2008 conferences, I've started seeing more news coming about the events scheduled for next year. MIX 2009 is being hel..

Nicholas Allen's Indigo Blog
5 Nov 2008 13:00
Wcf Rest Starter Kit
Now that I'm mostly caught up with reporting on sessions from PDC, I'll start talking a bit about the future of WCF that we announced during the conf..

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