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WCF 3.5 provides the ability to easily expose services to AJAX client applications.  Specifically, the webHttpBinding has an "AJAX-Friendly" endpoint behavior.  What do I mean by "AJAX-Friendly"?  To me, it means that we will create a client proxy that knows how…

Continuing with the Technical Fellow interviews on Channel 9, meet Dave Campbell. From his bio: "David Campbell is a Microsoft Technical Fellow working in the Data Storage Platform division where he is responsible for driving technical strategy and architecture of Microsoft SQL Server and…

At TechED 2007 Developer, I was lucky enough to get to spend some time in the Virtual TechED Fishbowl with Connected Systems team members Steve Swartz and Clemens Vasters and professional speaker/author David Chappell. Steve, David and Clemens are a great trio to get together for heady…

In this video, James Conard talks with John Shewchuk and Dennis Pilarinos about BizTalk Services.  In the simplest definition, BizTalk Services simplifies application connectivity by extending WCF and providing a set of hosted services.   John and Dennis quickly explain…

In the web services community, few terms are as loaded as "Service Orientation" (or SOA, or SO). Over time, the term has become so convulted that it's hard to identlfy its real meaning. My conversations with developers and architects tends to support that theory. In this screencast, I…

So you have a web service now what? Who is using it? What happens if you need to shut it down, version it, update it? How will you manage the dependencies that others have on your service and how will you know if you have enough capacity in place to handle the load tomorrow? Creating a web…

Geoff Harris from the Windows Media Player team walks us through some of the new features in the current beta release of WMP 11, including the new URGE music service from MTV.