Entries tagged with windows communication foundation - Channel 9

Aditro bygger en gemensam självserviceplattform i Silverlight

Dag König — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:26:00 GMT

Teknologier: Silverlight 3, Windows Workflow, Windows Presentation Foundation, Windows Communication Foundation, Team Foundation Server, Visual Studio Database Edition

Aditro har skapat en ny självserviceplattform för digitalisering och automatisering av administrativa processer. Den första lösningen baserad på den nya plattformen avser processer inom HR, såsom tidrapportering och semesterplanering.

Aditro Self Service underlättar för användarna genom att de får ett nytt snyggt och enkelt system som används i flera av Aditros system.

Systemet använder sig av tekniker som Silverlight 3, Windows Workflow, Presentation och Windows Communication Foundation.

Till sin hjälp så har Aditro använt Team Foundation Server.

Kontakt: Fredrik Stahre, Aditro; John Bergdahl, Aditro; Joakim Karlsson, Microsoft

Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)

Channel9Spain — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:17:00 GMT

Jose Murillo, especialista en Soluciones de Desarrollo de Microsoft Ibérica, nos cuenta qué es Windows Communication Foundation y cómo podemos usarlo en nuestros desarrollos.

Para los que todavía no conocéis WCF, nos referimos a la librería de comunicaciones unificada que se introdujo en la tercera versión de .NET Framework. Si queréis conocer más sobre WCF y ver cómo se utiliza de manera práctica, os invitamos a ver este webcast.

- Enlaces
http://msdn.microsoft.com/es-es/netframework/aa663324(en-us).aspx

Druckbetankung - Die Show :: Silverlight Teil II

Jan Schenk — Thu, 07 May 2009 12:15:00 GMT

Im zweiten Teil der Silverlight-Serie "Druckbetankung - Die Show" bauen Oliver Scheer und ich einen RSS-Reader in Expression Blend 2 SP1 und Visual Studio. Was muss so ein Silverlight RSS-Reader können? Und wie kann man das mit wenig Code umsetzen?
Am Ende haben wir ein funktionales, wenn auch nicht unbedingt schönes Grundgerüst mit Cross-Domain-Zugriff per WebService aus der Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), interaktiver Suche per Language Integrated Query (LINQ) und Datenbindung der Ergebnisse an eine ListBox.

endpoint.tv Screencast - AJAX-Enabling your WCF Service

Cliff Simpkins — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 16:00:00 GMT

Welcome to the latest video in the weekly WF/WCF Screencast series.

In this short video, CSD MVP Aaron Skonnard from PluralSight guides the viewer through how to AJAX-enable your WCF service, enabling you to easily invoke your WCF service from your AJAX applications.

For additional information on WCF, please check out the WCF Dev Center on MSDN and the .NET Endpoint team blog. For more information on classes offered by Aaron and the PluralSight folks, check out their catalog of instructor led courses and new online courses that cover a variety of Microsoft technologies, ranging from .NET v3.5 to WSS to BizTalk server.

endpoint.tv Screencast - Calling RESTful Services in WCF

Cliff Simpkins — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 16:00:00 GMT

Welcome to the latest video in the weekly WF/WCF Screencast series.

In this short video, CSD MVP Aaron Skonnard from PluralSight guides the viewer through how to call RESTful services using WCF in the client application.

For additional information on WCF, please check out the WCF Dev Center on MSDN and the .NET Endpoint team blog. For more information on classes offered by Aaron and the PluralSight folks, check out their catalog of instructor led courses and new online courses that cover a variety of Microsoft technologies, ranging from .NET v3.5 to WSS to BizTalk server.

ARCast.TV - Ron Jacobs on SOAP and RESTful Services

Bob Familiar — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 14:48:00 GMT

Ron Jacobs discusses REST and SOAP with Bob Familiar: the differences, the similarities, and how Windows Communication Foundation supports these distributed networking protocols.

US Public Sector Developer Dinner for Partners - .NET Framework 3.5 SP1

keydet — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 11:15:00 GMT

This is a recording of the US Public Sector Developer Dinner for Partners covering .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 held on August 20, 2008 in Reston, Va.

This presentation is a demo focused walkthrough of the new features and functionality in SP1. You will see demonstrations that will include:

Making data access easier with the ADO.NET Entity Framework.
Exposing your data access layer using ADO.NET Data Services
Building “Data Entry” Web-based applications faster than ever using ASP.NET Dynamic Data.
Making AJAX Applications faster with script combining and easier with built in support for handling browser history (i.e. back/forward buttons).
How to achieve up to 40% faster startup performance for your WPF applications and further improve the startup experience using a splash screen.
Reducing the time it takes to deploy your WPF applications using the New .NET Framework Client Profile.
Build services faster using enhancements in WCF.

To learn more about US Public Sector Developer Dinner For Partners, visit:

http://tinyurl.com/uspsdevdinner

Follow up resources (links, deck, code) from the dinner are available at:

http://blogs.msdn.com/devkeydet/archive/2008/08/21/follow-up-developer-dinner-on-net-framework-3-5-sp1.aspx

endpoint.tv Screencast - Building RESTful Services with WCF (Part 2)

Cliff Simpkins — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:00:00 GMT

Welcome to the latest video in the weekly WF/WCF Screencast series.

In this short video, CSD MVP Aaron Skonnard from PluralSight continues to guide the viewer through how to build a RESTful service with WCF, simplifying the IIS hosting of the service.

For additional information on WCF, please check out the WCF Dev Center on MSDN and the .NET Endpoint team blog. For more information on classes offered by Aaron and the PluralSight folks, check out their catalog of instructor led courses and new online courses that cover a variety of Microsoft technologies, ranging from .NET v3.5 to WSS to BizTalk server.

Scott Guthrie: Building a Silverlight 2 application

Dan Fernandez — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 17:49:00 GMT

Note: Due to the screen resolution, we recommend you watch this in full screen mode or download the video.

Now that Silverlight 2 has released to the Web, we sat down with Scott Guthrie as he walks us through handcoding a basic Silverlight 2 application.

You'll see the Silverlight eventing model, controls and control databinding, how to reuse classes and C# 3.0 features, and how to call WCF Web services directly from Silveright.

For more information, visit www.silverlight.net

WCF and AIF in Dynamics 2009: Chatting with Michael Merz

Ben Riga — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 23:56:00 GMT

In this video I’m back on the Advanta campus chatting with Michael Merz, Program Manager for Application Integration Framework (AIF) on the Dynamics AX team.

AIF is a standards-based framework that allows you to publish and consume web services. It’s used primarily in integration scenarios when connecting Dynamics AX with other systems. AX also has .NET Business Connector (BC.NET) for integrating with .NET applications. BC.NET is more for client side integration. AIF is all about web services and is completely standards-based. Under the covers AIF takes full advantage of .NET using Windows Communication Foundation (WCF). For more complex integration scenarios AIF can also help expose services using MSMQ and BizTalk.

With Dynamics AX 2009, the team ships a bunch of services (about 60 out of the box) that are ready for use. That includes, for example, the more common scenarios like integration with sales orders or customers. AIF allows you to create, read, update and delete those sales orders while maintaining the integrity of the database (i.e. without directly touching the database at all). This is done independent of the transport so when developing you could begin by updating via http and later switch to MSMQ. This can be as simple as enabling the service then “generating” which generates the WCF interface (i.e. WSDL). That web service is then available to be consumed by any standards-based client (including apps written in php, java and naturally any of the languages in Visual Studio). You can also configure the service endpoints to change the binding or authentication parameters.

In the video, Michael walks us through using a standard Excel Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) project to consume a AX 2009 sales order service that is exposed using AIF. He also shows us how, by using WS-Addressing in the WCF headers, you can pass a target company for a web service call. By default, AX limits error messages coming back from the server for security reasons. Michael shows us how to configure AX to propagate those errors when you need to see them.

Dynamics AX is a rich platform for supply chain management and financials. AIF opens up AX so that ISVs can build on that richness by integrating their own applications. Sometimes when you do that you need to consume a web service exposed by external applications. We see here how you can plug external web services into the AX processes. In this case, Michael shows us how when trying to create a customer in Dynamics AX with a name that has been blacklisted by the US government (“Bin Laden”, for instance. Yikes! :) ) the customer create process calls out to an external web service in the cloud to verify the customer name. This seamless integration of external processes is a boon for ISVs that need those deep integration points. Michael explains how. In order to do this sort of integration you build a Service Reference in the Application Object Tree (AOT) to provide the parameters. AX takes care of much of work by generating the artifacts (compilation, deploying, bundling etc) that are deployed and executed on the server. CLR interop is available in order to use .NET DLLs and their classes.

Some code samples are available here:

Application Integration Framework Overview (MSDN)
Calling the Customer and Vendor Services (Dianne Siebold)

ARCast.TV - Essential WCF

Bob Familiar — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:04:00 GMT

Authors Steve Resnick, Rich Crane and Chris Bowen discuss their new book Essential WCF with Bob Familiar.

endpoint.tv - The Total Noobs Guide to WCF - Lesson 1: My First WCF Service

Ron Jacobs — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 20:32:00 GMT

Are you a WCF noob? Don't be ashamed, everyone is a noob at some point. But don't stay that way, learn something so you can shed your noobness.

In this episode Ron Jacobs walks you through the process of creating your first WCF service and teaches you the about the ABCs of WCF

Long Running Work via Messaging in .NET 3.5

Jennifer Marsman — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:39:00 GMT

Jennifer Marsman highlights the different ways we can communicate with services using the Send activity in Windows Workflow. We'll walk through using the Send activity to call a Request-Reply MEP, a datagram (one-way) MEP, and by using a messaging approach to explicitly model sending and receiving.

Duplex Messaging in .NET 3.5

Jennifer Marsman — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:37:00 GMT

Jennifer Marsman walks through duplex messaging, where two workflows communicate with each other. This is accomplished by explicitly forwarding the callback context to the service and letting it use that to message back to the caller.

Context Exchange and Management in .NET 3.5

Jennifer Marsman — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:35:00 GMT

Jennifer Marsman demonstrates how context is exchanged between two parties in a conversation, and how we can obtain the context and explicitly manage it to enable additional clients to participate in the workflow.

Durable Services in .NET 3.5

Jennifer Marsman — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:33:00 GMT

Jennifer Marsman demonstrates using a WPF calculator to call a durable instance of a WCF service, which will store its state within a persistence database, similar to what happens with Workflow.