WCF 4

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

Stop starting new projects with ASMX Web Services or .NET Remoting. Now that we have your attention, let’s get serious. These two technologies are so 2002! You need to start learning Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) if you haven't already. This is the platform for connected applications on…

Windows Workflow in .NET 4 (WF4) includes a new set of messaging activities to help you build web services that are implemented with workflows. In this episode, our guest is Dave Cliffe, Program Manager for the messaging activities. Wondering how and why these activities work the way they do?…

In .NET 3.5, we created the REST Starter Kit as a way to get you up and running with RESTful services. Now that .NET 4 is out, people are asking how to do things like API Key Verification in .NET 4. In this episode, I'll walk you through a sample.For more info Try the Project Template from…

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…