WCF 4

My friends on the patterns & practices team are working on a cool new project that we want to share with you. The Composite Services Guidance project provides guidance for building enterprise SOA-based composite service applications with design and implementation patterns for service discovery,…

All this thinking about faults caused me to think about a deeper question.  What would be a great design for data validation in a service oriented architecture?  After some thought I proposed 4 Tenets of Service Oriented Data Validation. In this episode I'll walk through the WCF…

Have you ever noticed that there are often several products or solutions available when you want to solve a problem with the Microsoft platform, and so you aren't sure which is the right fit? With AppFabric, for example, there's a fair bit of overlap between BizTalk and Workflow. Luckily, a group…

WCF DataServices are great. Windows Server AppFabric is great. And what do you get when you put these two great things together? You get a template for Visual Studio, including guidance on how you can monitor and route your WCF DataService with Windows Server…

In this episode of geekSpeak, DevelopMentor instructor Scott Reed talks in depth about Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and its extensibility model. Scott provides an overview of what's available to be extended and some reasons you might want to extend WCF. He then describes the two…

WCF DataServices are great. Windows Server AppFabric is great. And what do you get when you put these two great things together? You get a template for Visual Studio, including guidance on how you can monitor and route your WCF DataService with Windows Server…

Don't you hate it when things go wrong? Most of the time on endpoint.tv, I show you when everything is working properly. On this episode, however, I'm going to show you some tools and techniques for troubleshooting what happens when you invoke a proxy with the wrong service address.Ron…

SO-Aware is an exciting new tool you can use with your WCF Services. This is not just another UDDI registry. Rather, this is a tool that works for SOAP, REST, and OData services and...you just have to see it in action.    Tellago Studios…

SO-Aware is an exciting new tool you can use with your WCF Services. This is not just another UDDI registry. Rather, this is a tool that works for SOAP, REST, and OData services and...you just have to see it in action.    Tellago Studios…

ca·non·i·cal [ kə nónnik'l ] conforming to general principles: conforming to accepted principles or standard practiceIn this episode, I'll tell you about my new Canonical REST Service sample code on MSDN code gallery, which demonstrates a REST Service built with WCF 4 that fully complies with HTTP…