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Sniffing WCF applications in localhost
WCF comes with handful of tracing and logging options. We can just enable it with a few lines in the config and we are good to go. Furthermore the SDK comes with a handy tool svctraceviewer.exe (for wimps ). However, out-of-the-box trace output gives Read More
posted Tuesday, November 20, 2007 12:39 PM with 1 Comments

Releasing streams in message contracts
In a lot of WCF streaming applications it's common to see a message contract like this. [MessageContract] public class DownloadFileRequest {     [MessageHeader]     private string filename;     Read More
posted Thursday, September 06, 2007 8:18 PM with 0 Comments

Some insights on calling sync proxy methods from multiple threads
Update: Scott Seely explained that this is by design.  So I'm changing the title in my post. Also if you want to do this, use async methods as he pointed out.Last night my friend Michele pointed me an interesting thing on the WCF client side runtime. Read More
posted Saturday, September 01, 2007 7:15 AM with 1 Comments

IO Worker Threads - Performance Uncovered!
Writing my last post about WCF threading internals compelled me to reveal some of the tests I did sometime back. So today we are going to see how we can optimize the CPU utilization by using IO worker threads in CLR thread pool. We are talking about CPU. Read More
posted Sunday, August 05, 2007 9:04 PM with 0 Comments

WCF Threading Internals (Updated)
Apologies! Last night I had accidently pressed the publish button without ticking the publish as a draft option. So those who have read this post already, sorry about the incomplete, poorly formatted text :( Along with its bunch of different features, Read More
posted Thursday, August 02, 2007 10:49 PM with 0 Comments

SOAP Routing – What has it gotta do with “To” header ???
During the past few days I came across some SOAP routing intermediary implementations (of course running on WCF ;)) and each of them were trying to route the WCF messages by changing the “To” WS-Addressing header in the message. In some cases this Read More
posted Friday, May 25, 2007 6:00 PM with 1 Comments

WCF - POX Streaming
Have you ever thought about returning a plain old XML document or some well formed HTML body snippet (for some crazy reason ;)) or your RSS feed from a WCF service? Well… I did :). In fact instead of returning the XML document itself, I wanted to stream Read More
posted Wednesday, May 23, 2007 2:08 PM with 4 Comments

Cleaning up Client Channels
Most of us have our own style of writing code we’ve been practicing throughout our career. Using the “using” statement for deterministic resource cleanup is one of my must haves in my keywords bag. But unfortunately I cannot use this to clean up Read More
posted Sunday, May 13, 2007 10:02 PM with 1 Comments

It's Indigo baby!!!
After the tremendous effort (more than 4 years I assume) by building 42 people, WCF is finally released. Get it here and it’s time make enough room for “using System.ServiceModel” line in your code (y). I really enjoyed playing around this product since Read More
posted Wednesday, November 08, 2006 9:15 AM with 0 Comments

IServiceBehavor, IEndpointBehavior etc etc and Mike from Building 42
My friend, Mike Vernal who is behind the Service Model layer has a blog now. Stay tuned if you want to *understand* the nitty gritty stuff in the SM layer and it's extensibility. Welcome Mike!! :-) Read More
posted Wednesday, February 01, 2006 5:24 AM with 0 Comments

Kenny got the sixth sense ;-)
Last night I was thinking about the way service model determines the channel shape for the communication. I knew that it must be based on the contract. I was very curious about the actual logic behind this scene nevertheless. And now when I walked Read More
posted Wednesday, November 02, 2005 4:55 AM with 0 Comments

EncryptedData class for WCF ???
An interesting post by William. Even though this could be achived by extending the service model layer I would also like to see this out of the box. Indigo guys, any pointers? ;-) Cheers Read More
posted Sunday, October 30, 2005 3:42 AM with 1 Comments

Where am I heading to?
Just thought about catching up my missing posts while trying to adjust my self in the blanket (It’s pouring in Colombo) ;-). Every time I think about WCF and future of connected systems, I tend to compare it with the present and think Read More
posted Wednesday, October 19, 2005 2:10 AM with 2 Comments

Welcome Ralph Squillace
I got a big news for ya. Ralph Squillace has started blogging. Welcome Ralph. Read More
posted Monday, October 17, 2005 6:39 AM with 1 Comments

Here he comes
Yasser has already done the post I've been planning to put up here ;-). I must say that the part one is very successfull. I will also contribute this very soon. Cheers Read More
posted Friday, October 14, 2005 4:01 AM with 0 Comments

WinFx September CTP bits
Go! Get 'em. Read More
posted Thursday, September 15, 2005 4:33 AM with 4 Comments


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