August 13, 2008 1:49 PM
Posted by: YuvalShavit
.NET Web services (Windows Communication Foundation)By Andrew Horne
Authentication and authorization are key areas of focus in the "Improving Web Services Security" guide published by Microsoft’s Patterns and Practices Team. The guide leads you through SOA security, WCF security, and useful application scenarios for both internet...
March 21, 2008 11:04 AM
Posted by: YuvalShavit
.NET Web services (Windows Communication Foundation)Dino Chiesa, who previously wrote about how not to write a REST app, finally spills his guts on how to go about doing so. The basic metaphor in WCF is that services receive and respond to incoming communication, and clients initiate those communications. The REST service is an application that...
February 27, 2008 11:57 AM
Posted by: YuvalShavit
.NET Web services (Windows Communication Foundation),
Mobile applicationsMicrosoft updated the .NET Micro Framework, releasing Version 2.5 with improvements in Web Services and TCP/IP support.
.NET Micro Framework Version 2.5 includes a Web Services on Devices implementation compatible with Windows Vista and supported by the other Microsoft Windows Embedded...
February 21, 2008 10:07 PM
Posted by: YuvalShavit
.NET Web services (Windows Communication Foundation),
Client applications,
General Microsoft newsMicrosoft said Thursday it will provide extensive documentation for APIs covering its major software products, including Office 2007, the Windows client and server, and the .NET Framework. Much of this information had been closely held, available only along with trade secret licenses or only within...
February 19, 2008 12:16 PM
Posted by: Brein Matturro
.NET Web services (Windows Communication Foundation),
C#We bought into .NET Remoting early and have quite a few products in place that exploit the .NET Remoting lifestyle. Did I say lifestyle? Yes. It seems that, once you go remoting, you don't want to go...
February 8, 2008 10:10 AM
Posted by: YuvalShavit
.NET Web services (Windows Communication Foundation),
Methodologies (Team Development, Agile and so forth)Steve Porter at Imaginet Academy has been working to get Team Foundation Server (TFS) up and running, and one of his tasks was to take an existing project and migrate it over. His former build was using a couple of tasks from the MSBuild Community Tasks Project (specifically the StopServices and...
January 21, 2008 2:36 PM
Posted by: YuvalShavit
.NET Web services (Windows Communication Foundation),
VS 2008 and .NET 3.5In its first incarnation, Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) did not support custom validators with transport-level HTTP security. That changed with .NET Framework 3.5. But how do you make it...
January 2, 2008 10:43 AM
Posted by: YuvalShavit
.NET Web services (Windows Communication Foundation)It is list time. WCF blogger extraordinaire Nick Allen put together his yearly review of his most popular posts. Among the most-read Allen articles written in the year just past are tips on Preventing...
