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thinktecture & DevelopMentor: Guerilla Enterprise .NET Kurs in München
Geballtes Know-How - für Sie!thinktecture und DevelopMentor kündigen im Rahmen einer Partnerschaft das erste in Deutschland stattfindende "Enterprise .NET"-Event an. Es wird in der Woche vom 26. Mai 2008 in München stattfinden und im berühmt-berüchtigten Read More
posted Friday, February 22, 2008 7:27 PM with 0 Comments

Information about .NET Framework 3.0 Service Pack 1 (SP 1)
I had several people asking me for some details about what exactly is fixed in 3.0 SP1 - so here is some more information.Download .NET 3.0 SP 1 (2.4 MB download size)Problems that are fixed in the .NET Framework 3.0 Service Pack 1:The .NET Framework Read More
posted Wednesday, January 16, 2008 7:26 PM with 0 Comments

ADO.NET Data Services are not tied to databases
Just to make this point very clear:ADO.NET Data Services (aka 'Astoria') is not tied to a database, not tied to relational data and surely not tied to the ADO.NET Entity Framework. *Data* in 'Data Service' doesn’t mean 'Database', but it literally just Read More
posted Wednesday, December 19, 2007 8:45 AM with 1 Comments

Running WSCF 0.7 in Visual Studio 2008
Now with VS2008 being released obviously a lot of people also want to run WSCF in it.I have an updated WSCF.addin file which you need to replace the original one with (the location of the .addin file depends on your install option).Please note that this Read More
posted Friday, December 07, 2007 9:08 AM with 3 Comments

The future of WSCF (and the forums)
Some heads up wrt to WSCF - this is what I just posted over at the thinktecture forums (which have been quiet from our side for a loooong time, sorry).Hello everybody, first of all I really need to apologize the long silence in these forums here - sorry! Read More
posted Monday, December 03, 2007 9:16 AM with 0 Comments

Beyond the Obvious: New Features and Fixes for WCF in .NET 3.5 - Expanded WS-* specs support
OK, here is the next one in the list of new features in WCF "v2".There are two new out-of-the-box bindings covering updated/new  WS-* specs: WS2007HttpBinding WS2007FederationHttpBinding and the respective binding elements: WS2007HttpBindingElement Read More
posted Wednesday, October 31, 2007 7:33 PM with 2 Comments

Beyond the Obvious: New Features and Fixes for WCF in .NET 3.5 - Custom username over transport security
Now, this is an easy blog post for me!My friend and thinktecture's security consultant Dominick Baier has asked me whether he can blog about this important security-related WCF topic: yep, of course :)Go and read his entry as he was one of the first to Read More
posted Wednesday, October 31, 2007 9:32 AM with 7 Comments

Microsoft starts embracing Good Old Europe - first stop: Oslo
The big shop based in Redmond announced a new and upcoming platform for SO(A) at its SOA and Business Process Conference. And its codename is Oslo.The project code-named Oslo will deliver updated messaging and workflow technologies in the next version Read More
posted Tuesday, October 30, 2007 7:34 PM with 4 Comments

Beyond the Obvious: New Features and Fixes for WCF in .NET 3.5 - Accessing the remote hosts address
OK, this is first short blog entry on some new features (and fixes) for WCF in .NET 3.5 and/or 3.0 SP1.I know that a number of people have been complaining bitterly about not being able to get the information of the calling remote host in WCF v1, i.e. Read More
posted Monday, October 29, 2007 6:16 PM with 8 Comments

Beyond the Obvious: New Features and Fixes for WCF in .NET 3.5 (and .NET 3.0 SP1)
With .NET 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008 being quite close to RTM these days, I thought it would be time to write a bit about what is new for WCF in .NET 3.5 and .NET 3.0 SP1. This entry just lays the ground for a couple of follow-ups which will go a bit Read More
posted Monday, October 29, 2007 3:47 PM with 34 Comments

Improving WCF Interoperability: Flattening your WSDL
WCF is surely a big step forward for having a unified communication runtime, API and hosting model. And with all these super-exciting specifications and standards supported WCF must be a killer when it comes to interoperability with other Read More
posted Thursday, May 10, 2007 7:44 PM with 13 Comments

Web Service Software Factory v2 (for ASMX and WCF)
It is here.The Web Service Software Factory (also known as the Service Factory) is an integrated collection of tools, patterns, source code and prescriptive guidance that helps our customers quickly and consistently construct Web services that adhere Read More
posted Thursday, January 11, 2007 7:40 AM with 4 Comments

From DynWsLib to... ProxyFactory
OK, there is one library I wrote a long time ago which has a lot of fans: DynWsLib.This library is for invoking your Web Services dynamically without having to generate a client-side proxy class at design/compile time with WSCF, Read More
posted Tuesday, November 21, 2006 2:21 PM with 1 Comments

[Release] WSCF 0.7 - with support for XSD-based code generation
WSCF 0.7 was just released. Enjoy!New Features in v0.7Generate data transfer object/data contract code from schema descriptions in XSD or WSDL files - via the VS 2005 add-in and the command line tool.This build also includes several important fixes, e.g.:SOAP Read More
posted Friday, November 17, 2006 9:27 PM with 1 Comments

What's in a name? "Generate..."
"... Data Types""... Data Contracts""... Data Transfer Objects"Please help us in finding the optimal way of naming the major new feature in WSCF 0.7. Go and vote by leaving a comment for this post. Thanks!Note: we do not support WCF with WSCF 0.7, but Read More
posted Tuesday, October 03, 2006 1:08 PM with 4 Comments

WSCF 0.7: Looking for three *thorough* testers!
OK, you may have realized that WSCF is a side-project these days - mostly due to the fact that we are deeply involved in very interesting projects in the service-orientation and workflow space.But now we found some free time to integrate the most wanted Read More
posted Monday, September 25, 2006 3:21 PM with 3 Comments

Microsoft's Open Specification Promise - what we all wanted to see
Not much buzz around it, but this is what at least I wanted to see.Microsoft is making a personal promise to every individual and organization in the world that they can use any patented technology Microsoft has that is necessary to implement the Web Read More
posted Wednesday, September 13, 2006 9:48 AM with 3 Comments

Commenting problems
Sorry, we have strange problems when people want to comment on our posts. If you have submitted a comment in the last few weeks and it did not show up here, feel free to contact me.Sorry again. Read More
posted Friday, July 21, 2006 4:32 PM with 1 Comments

IXmlSerializable rules
Yesterday a customer got in touch with me regarding some custom serialization/deserialization issues in his ASMX-based Web Services. When using IXmlSerializable there are essentially three 'rules' to follow: In WriteXmlDon't ever write the root element, Read More
posted Tuesday, May 23, 2006 9:50 PM with 2 Comments

Guidance-based design and implementation of distributed solutions adhering to service-oriented thoughts with WCF inside of your favorite development IDE
I think the title says it all (really? :)) - stay tuned for more to come in the next few days, as my friend Jason already hinted at. And it may be related to this and this and this and even Read More
posted Wednesday, April 05, 2006 4:18 PM with 12 Comments

[RELEASE] WSCF 0.6 for Visual Studio 2005 & .NET Framework 2.0
We are finally announcing the release of WSCF 0.6. This version is only available to work with .NET Framework 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005. Of course WSCF is still free and nobody has to pay anything.   WSCF 0.6: http://www.thinktecture.com/Resources/Software/WSContractFirst/default.html Read More
posted Monday, February 27, 2006 11:31 PM with 4 Comments

WSCF: we need testers!
Do you want to test WSCF 0.6 - are you keen and hot? Contact me - but only if you *really* have time to thoroughly test it, thanks! Read More
posted Saturday, December 17, 2005 12:09 PM with 2 Comments

Manually setting soap:address in ASMX
I did not count how often I heard this question, but now I think it is about time to post the solution. Imagine you have an ASMX-based Web Service running on port 1974 on a farm of web servers. When you want to expose it to the outside Read More
posted Wednesday, November 16, 2005 10:01 PM with 0 Comments

WS-* support on the .NET platform
UPDATE: I added ASMX 1.x to the table. As I am currently investigating into some interoperability scenarios between the .NET and Java worlds I thought you may be interested in a list of supported WS-* specifications for .NET today and tomorrow. Read More
posted Wednesday, October 19, 2005 11:21 AM with 12 Comments

Hosting your HTTP-based Web Services on a mobile device, bug-fixed
Once upon a time I reported how you can offer HTTP-based Web Services on Windows CE-powered devices by leveraging the .NET Compact Framework. Now I was contacted by a reader of this blog who found a bug in the mobile web server mentioned and introduced Read More
posted Wednesday, October 12, 2005 11:36 AM with 4 Comments

[RELEASE] WSCF 0.5
Sorry to everybody for the delay. It is here. New Features in WSCF 0.5 Enhanced Code Generation Data type generation: WSCF now optionally strips out generated data classes and puts them in their own file. Interfaces: WSCF now generates a .NET interface Read More
posted Friday, June 03, 2005 7:17 PM with 11 Comments

Techniques for Contract-First Development
This is mentioned and discussed here by him. Thanks. Read More
posted Wednesday, May 11, 2005 9:29 PM with 5 Comments

Contract-First dissected: why, how, and when
Our friend Aaron from PluralSight did what I was supposed to write up for a long time… so, well: Thanks Aaron for doing my job. ;) The first part of his two parts series is now online. I have a feeling that the upcoming second part might also Read More
posted Tuesday, April 12, 2005 10:50 PM with 5 Comments

You can help us improve WSCF, now
Take a look here if you work with WSCF and just think: "well, it's nice, but...". We want to hear your 'but'. Thanks. Read More
posted Saturday, January 22, 2005 6:49 PM with 8 Comments

Viva WS-MEXicana!
WS-MetadataExchange implementation for ASMX. Yes. Thanks. Will play with it end of the week and post some insights. Read More
posted Monday, January 10, 2005 6:55 AM with 0 Comments

Proof-of-concept implementation of WS-MetadataExchange for ASMX
Nice work by Jef Newsom. Although I cannot see any complete sample or even a download for it... Read More
posted Thursday, December 30, 2004 6:30 AM with 0 Comments

Do you believe in Web services in 2005?
Simon and I do. They finally will have their breakthrough - cross fingers. Read More
posted Wednesday, December 29, 2004 11:33 AM with 0 Comments

The Web services empire strikes back - Code generation: properties instead of fields
Part 1: The Web services empire strikes back - Introductory thoughts Part 2: The Web services empire strikes back - Inner Workings Part 3: The Web services empire strikes back - Web Services in Visual Studio 2005 Part 4: The Web services empire strikes Read More
posted Tuesday, December 28, 2004 1:00 AM with 0 Comments

WSCF 0.4: Web services Contract-First Design & Development - for real!
OK, it's about time. There has been a lot of buzz around schema-based contract-first Web services design & development lately. Nearly everybody thinks that it is a good thing, and that we finally should reach a state where we all can live and breath Read More
posted Monday, December 06, 2004 11:59 AM with 3 Comments

WSCF 0.4 with command line interface
It is decided: we will release WSCF 0.4 with a new command line interface to all code generation features - we tested this command line tool in a few real world projects and it seems stable enough to be distributed ;) Version 0.4 also comes with a WSDL Read More
posted Friday, December 03, 2004 5:24 AM with 1 Comments

WS-RM4WSE2
Nice, Andres. WS-ReliableMessaging glue for WSE 2.0. Read More
posted Monday, November 29, 2004 12:17 AM with 3 Comments

WSCF sneak preview: command line interface
A highly demanded feature... eventually this will be included in the next build of thinktecture's WSCF (aka WsContractFirst), thanks to our friend Christoph Schittko. To make clear: it is not yet decided whether this wll be in v0.4 or v0.5. Read More
posted Friday, November 19, 2004 3:11 AM with 0 Comments

Dynamically invoke XML Web Services v1.5 - the next step
A lot of people have asked me recently when I am going to release-to-web the next version of DynWsLib. DynWsLib is a quite successful (see version 1.4) .NET library to call Web services dynamically at runtime without having a static proxy implementation. Read More
posted Tuesday, November 16, 2004 2:41 AM with 1 Comments

VS 2005 as a rudimentary, code-level WSDL editor
Nice idea by Don. Although a lot more people would like to have an abstraction over that ;) Read More
posted Saturday, November 13, 2004 12:19 AM with 0 Comments

The Web services empire strikes back - Web services and large content [link]
Part 1: The Web services empire strikes back - Introductory thoughts Part 2: The Web services empire strikes back - Inner Workings Part 3: The Web services empire strikes back - Web Services in Visual Studio 2005 Part 4: The Web services empire strikes Read More
posted Thursday, November 11, 2004 7:06 AM with 0 Comments

The Web services empire strikes back - Support for Generics
Part 1: The Web services empire strikes back - Introductory thoughts Part 2: The Web services empire strikes back - Inner Workings Part 3: The Web services empire strikes back - Web Services in Visual Studio 2005 Part 4: The Web services empire strikes Read More
posted Sunday, October 31, 2004 11:31 AM with 1 Comments

The Web services empire strikes back - Support for Nullable and SqlTypes
Part 1: The Web services empire strikes back - Introductory thoughtsPart 2: The Web services empire strikes back - Inner WorkingsPart 3: The Web services empire strikes back - Web Services in Visual Studio 2005Part 4: The Web services empire strikes back Read More
posted Saturday, October 30, 2004 6:54 AM with 0 Comments

Look ma, it actually *is* a product!
I have been asked by a lot of people. And customers asked why to use WSE 2.0. Well, besides the technical aspects, I told them: "Because it is a product. A product from Microsoft with *full* support, not just a technology sample.". And pointed them to Read More
posted Friday, October 15, 2004 1:53 AM with 1 Comments

The Web services empire strikes back - Making asynchronous Web service calls easier
Part 1: The Web services empire strikes back - Introductory thoughts Part 2: The Web services empire strikes back - Inner WorkingsPart 3: The Web services empire strikes back - Web Services in Visual Studio 2005Part 4: The Web services empire strikes Read More
posted Thursday, October 14, 2004 11:39 AM with 2 Comments

*Must have* resource on Web services interop
MSDN, finally an official place for Web services interop on MSDN. Do not miss the overall great Web Services Interoperability Guidance (WSIG)! Current installments: IBM WebSphere Application Developer 5.1.2 Simon Guest shares recommendations for Web Read More
posted Thursday, September 30, 2004 11:47 PM with 1 Comments

The Web services empire strikes back - Schema Importer Extensions
Part 1: The Web services empire strikes back - Introductory thoughtsPart 2: The Web services empire strikes back - Inner WorkingsPart 3: The Web services empire strikes back - Web Services in Visual Studio 2005Part 4: The Web services empire strikes back Read More
posted Wednesday, September 29, 2004 10:28 PM with 4 Comments

The Web services empire strikes back - Contract-first with .NET 'IDL'
Part 1: The Web services empire strikes back - Introductory thoughts Part 2: The Web services empire strikes back - Inner Workings Part 3: The Web services empire strikes back - Web Services in Visual Studio 2005 Part 4: The Web services empire strikes Read More
posted Tuesday, September 14, 2004 12:55 AM with 2 Comments

SwA feature support for .NET
Update: Simon does not use the ASMX runtime, sorry. Now, with MTOM being in the final stages ... we still need a real-world solution for opaque data today. OK, there is DIME support in WSE 2.0 ... and Simon Fell has the well-known PocketSOAP COM Read More
posted Wednesday, September 08, 2004 10:25 PM with 0 Comments

Beispiele für den WebCast "Connected Systems - Implementierungsstrategien: ASMX und WSE"
Wie versprochen stellen Dariusz und ich hier die gezeigten Beispiele aus dem WebCast vom Montag, den 6. September 2004 zur Verfügung. Wer den Live WebCast verpasst hat, kann ihn sich (und freilich alle anderen auch) über die deutsche MSDN-Seite herunter Read More
posted Wednesday, September 08, 2004 11:23 AM with 0 Comments

Improved XSD and WSDL support with .NET Fx 1.1 SP1
At least, this is what the download page states ... really? Let's test it. If you can report improvements in this area when installing the Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 SP1, let me know. This should also affect the WsContractFirst tool. Thanks. Note: the Read More
posted Monday, August 30, 2004 12:13 PM with 2 Comments

Taking Web services development a small step further - WsContractFirst Visual Studio .NET add-in version 0.3
Announcing the next version of thinktecture's Web services contract-first tool, WsContractFirst v0.3 with a bunch of new features for interested Web services developers. Revised version from September 1, 2004 (small bugfix)! Read More
posted Monday, August 30, 2004 7:19 AM with 21 Comments

Hosting my WSE 2.0 services
Today I got inspired ;) Just listened to Keith Ballinger (Keith, your blog is dead ...?) talking about WSE 2.0 - it was good and fun and he showed some live coding samples. OK. But there is always some 'toy factor' with those demos. They are hosted Read More
posted Wednesday, August 25, 2004 3:04 PM with 8 Comments

Worried about Web services-related development - would this help you?
If you ever had the chance to use a tool to generate .NET code inside Visual Studio .NET from a Web services interface and message contract (aka WSDL & XSD) that offers the following features in addition to this) - would you actually use it? More Read More
posted Thursday, August 19, 2004 1:50 PM with 0 Comments

WSE tracing tool from the master of Web services interop
Yes, now you have a good time viewing the traced WSE 2.0 messages - whether they flow over HTTP or TCP or ... OK, a version 1.0 - but very amazing. Simon did it and uses the standard WSE tracing feature to put up a nice GUI.There is also another, but Read More
posted Thursday, August 19, 2004 12:50 PM with 1 Comments

A next very small step, soon ...
Expect more by the end of next week. Some good testers are currently busy. Thanks. Read More
posted Thursday, August 12, 2004 11:01 AM with 0 Comments

The Web services empire strikes back - Proxy Type Sharing
Part 1: The Web services empire strikes back - Introductory thoughts Part 2: The Web services empire strikes back - Inner Workings Part 3: The Web services empire strikes back - Web Services in Visual Studio 2005 Part 4: The Web services empire strikes Read More
posted Wednesday, August 11, 2004 8:13 AM with 2 Comments

Great Web services and .NET tools and samples
Looking for some good tools and samples to solve your .NET or Web services-related problem? The independent Microsoft Regional Directors (RDs) might help you with this list: Regional Director Code Samples Ah, you are asking what an RD is? No problem, Read More