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With all the emphasis on HTML 5 and devices, more and more people are thinking of creating services with the HTTP stack. Though WCF has had support for this since .NET 3.5, the WCF team has been working hard on the new WCF Web API stack with awesome support for just about anything you would ever…

Are you sometimes annoyed by Windows Workflow Foundation (WF4) or Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)?  Sure you are.  All of use are sometimes annoyed by these products - including those of us who work on the team.  We know there are things we could do to make the products better…

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,…

Windows Server AppFabric and WCF HTTP Services are a great combination and we've just made it easier for you to use them together. In this episode, I'll show you the new AppFabric WCF HTTP Service Template and how you can use it to build HTTP (REST) services that work great from any device and…

You've been asking for it and here it is.  I've put together some sample code showing how you can use WF4 with ASP.NET and do it the right way... the fast way with async calls. For more info see this blog post Ron Jacobs   http://blogs.msdn.com/rjacobsTwitter: @ronljacobs…

The other day, I walked by the office where our team members from Shanghai work while in Redmond and I ran into Leo Shum, a test lead on the new WCF Web HTTP (REST) Test Tool. On this episode, Leo joins me in the studio to show you how this new tool works. Though it's not yet shipping, we…

Do you really want to know how to make your service fast?  There is only one way to improve performance and that is to set a goal and test your system under load.  The trouble is that there are few good load testing tools for WCF. In this episode, once again I'm joined by Jesus Rodriguez…

Glenn Block joins me for a look at how you can use the new WCF Web API libraries to build great browser based apps with jQuery with new support for Form URI encoding and other custom content types. For more info see http://wcf.codeplex.com Ron Jacobshttp://blogs.msdn.com/rjacobsTwitter: @ronljacobs…

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…