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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

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 - JSON support
Alright, next round in this mini-series.WCF in .NET 3.5 contains a new serializer for handling with JSON-based data. With the so called DataContractJsonSerializer we can serialize and deserialize JSON packets based on DataContract descriptions. The new Read More
posted Tuesday, November 06, 2007 12:15 AM with 4 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

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

[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

Beyond [DataContract] - serializing data with WCF
Just a quick note for everyone doing first steps in WCF service contract design.Usually you get introduced to WCF by using a Data Contract (denoted by the [DataContract] attribute) which internally is used by the new DataContractSerializer.But there is Read More
posted Tuesday, September 12, 2006 8:14 AM with 0 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

Sie wollen WinFX, uups: .NET Framework 3.0, lernen und im Einsatz sehen?
Kein Problem.thinktecture und newtelligence bieten das TornadoCamp WinFX an. Was soll ich sagen? Das Who-Is-Who in den prominenten Bereichen von .NET Framework 3.0 im deutschsprachigen Raum steht Ihnen eine ganze Woche lang zur Verfügung. 16.-20.10.2006: Read More
posted Thursday, July 20, 2006 12:00 AM with 0 Comments

MSDN WebCast: 'Dissecting Contract-First Web Services' Post-Mortem
If you are interested in the slides from my MSDN US webcast on Contract-First Web Services, go ahead and grab them. Please feel free to get in touch with me if you have any questions. See you in the next webcast. Read More
posted Saturday, July 15, 2006 10:25 AM with 0 Comments

Explaining WCF - in a slightly different way (in German)
Seems like Clemens likes the dotnetpro.tv video episode that Ralf and myself shooted the other day about Windows Communication Foundation. Only available in German, though... Read More
posted Tuesday, June 06, 2006 11:51 PM with 0 Comments

jWSCF im deutschen Eclipse Magazin
In der aktuellen Ausgabe des Eclipse Magazins gibt es einen Artikel über jWSCF. jWSCF bedient sich über einen COM Interop Layer des WSDL Wizards von WSCF. Read More
posted Tuesday, May 23, 2006 5:42 PM with 0 Comments

Service Factory, aka Web Service Software Factory, nee Service BAT
Some days ago I already hinted at it - now it is more or less official. Also Beat, Edward, Matias, Jason and others already blogged about it. I am part of the 'Service Factory' advisory board and we think that this may evolve into something really useful Read More
posted Thursday, April 13, 2006 9:16 AM with 10 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

Beyond announcements, visions, and rants: A living Domain Specific Language
R.I.P. No, I won't go anymore into discussions whether x-first or y-first or nothing-first or whatever-first-or-second-or-last is a good way to model service contracts. The only thing I have to state is that sometime people sitting in the glasshouse should Read More
posted Friday, February 03, 2006 4:17 PM with 10 Comments

Melted Cheese Effect - Contracts
Yeah... we are slow, but constant :) Part 2 of our small series is finally here. Please also refer to part 1. Read More
posted Tuesday, November 01, 2005 8:23 PM with 1 Comments

Web Services semantics, part II
In addition to this, there is now something official going on at W3C … we’ll see… Read More
posted Friday, June 17, 2005 9:42 AM with 1 Comments

Interop City @ NYC: SOAP is not a Simple Object Access Protocol
In July I will be speaking about reconsidering the design and implementation of Web Services based on alternative thinking about SOAP and the whole Web Services story. The reason for this talk is the IASA InteropCity event in New York City. I can tell Read More
posted Tuesday, June 14, 2005 11:15 PM with 0 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

[RFC] Visualizing service interface contracts
We are just finishing 0.5 of WSCF and try to figure out the feature set for 0.6 already. One thing we want to add is a visualization component for WSDL interface descriptions - because a picture tells more than a thousand words. And everybody should be Read More
posted Wednesday, February 23, 2005 2:22 AM with 3 Comments

Today and tomorrow: Will Indigo heal...? Explicitness is good, especially for Contracts
I can't stand. After the first few days of Indigo hype, we are back to business. Now that Indigo is here (well, at least in the shape of code snippets in blog posts) people start to wonder about 'best practices' - funny, isn't it? One of the Read More
posted Wednesday, February 09, 2005 11:47 PM with 14 Comments

IBM developerWorks article on how to achieve better Web services interoperability
...and I must say that they just think doing it this way is good... Web services programming tips and tricks: Improve interoperability between J2EE technology and .NET, Part 1: WSDL, RPC/encoded style, and WS-I conformance Weaving together Web services Read More
posted Wednesday, December 29, 2004 2:51 AM with 0 Comments

Illustration: Schema-based Contract-first Design depicted
As I am currently writing some articles for a German magazine, it happend I had to draw a picture that shows the four phases involved in a schema-based contract-first Web services design process. So here ist the international version of the picture [click Read More
posted Tuesday, December 14, 2004 12:17 AM with 1 Comments

Effective XML Schema design for WSCF
I am blogging this link again - because we cannot read the information contained in this presentation often enough. XML Schema design best practices, especially targeted at the Web services developer - and therefore at everyone using WSCF. Using XML Read More
posted Tuesday, December 07, 2004 10:45 PM with 1 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

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

Web services contract-first: Thoughts - Part 4
We need a helper tool to design the contract, no question. And after right-clicking on my message schemas I actually got one. Look ma - it's a wizard! Read More
posted Friday, November 12, 2004 2:47 AM with 2 Comments

Using XML schemas effectively in WSDL design
Very readable. Learning objective: You will learn techniques to improve portability, reusability, and interoperability in your web services design. Can you imagine using these best practices with something like that? Sounds like goodness. Read More
posted Thursday, November 11, 2004 10:53 AM with 0 Comments

Web services contract-first: Thoughts - Part 3.2
Ah, here we go: I found it ... This seems to be one possibility to design your Web service interface contract based on your XSD data and message schemas. Well, let's see what happens when we click this menu item... Read More
posted Monday, November 08, 2004 11:53 AM with 4 Comments

Web services contract-first: Thoughts - Part 3.1
... did I say there is nothing for the .NET developer when it comes to designing Web services the contract-fist way under certain circumstances?? Wait! Today I found something ... erm ... where is it again? ... hm ... hm ... will come back soon to Read More
posted Friday, November 05, 2004 9:21 AM with 1 Comments

Web services contract-first: Thoughts - Part 3
So, you have modelled your data and your messages you want to use in your Web service communication.And now? What to do now? ... Yes, go and figure out how to hand-craft your WSDL. Have fun! ... because there are no viable tools. Not for the .NET developer. Read More
posted Wednesday, November 03, 2004 11:23 PM with 4 Comments

Web services contract-first: Thoughts - Part 2
When you have your data (and a lot of data schemas are not just for Web services-related stuff), then you can start to model your messages. These messages will make up the operations in your Web service, depending on the message exchange patterns you Read More
posted Sunday, October 31, 2004 11:25 AM with 2 Comments

Web services contract-first: Thoughts - Part 1
Model your data based on schema (whether it be in raw angle brackets or beautified bricks, boxes and lines). Read More
posted Saturday, October 30, 2004 5:11 AM 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

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

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

ASMX's 'HelloWorld' as it is supposed to be - VS team look!
[Update: I forgot an important attribute - which is responsible for Whidbey's BP 1.0 compliance] Sorry, I have a request. These days, I am thinking a lot about contract-first design and development of Web services. If we cannot get a nice Read More
posted Wednesday, July 28, 2004 5:12 AM with 6 Comments

A (very) small step to contract-first in VS 2005
There is a lot of buzz about contract-first Web service design and development. Maybe I am one of the biggest supporters of it ;-) Yes, just a very small step - but you never know what comes until Visual Studio 2005 RTM's ... take a look at the screenshot Read More
posted Wednesday, July 14, 2004 7:28 AM with 1 Comments

For the contract junkies: WSDL 2.0 explained
A new article "What's new in WSDL 2.0" on XML.com. The W3C's Web Services Description Working Group, part of the Web Services Activity, has defined a language for describing web services and the possible ways to interact with them. The WG published its Read More
posted Thursday, May 20, 2004 10:17 PM with 0 Comments

Oracle's new Web services Designer - good idea, but ...
Has anybody already seen the Web services Designer in Oracle's latest edition of JDeveloper? They call it 10g ... Well, there is an online demo of its features which looks quite pretty and interesting - at the first sight. But then they still take exclusively Read More
posted Wednesday, January 21, 2004 11:25 PM with 5 Comments

Desperately seeking Chris Dix
Who knows where Chris Dix is? Read More
posted Thursday, December 25, 2003 2:56 PM with 4 Comments

ANN: Improve your "Contract First" Web services development experience: WsContractFirst v0.2 - forget about wsdl.exe
Ever wanted to simply right-click on a WSDL file in Visual Studio .NET and generate code from that Web service contract? And this new version 0.2 has a bunch of great features you will surely like - vastly improved ... Read More
posted Friday, November 21, 2003 1:44 PM with 50 Comments

ANN: "Contract First" approach for Web services: help me out with a tool - now!
Ever wanted to simply right-click on a WSDL file in Visual Studio .NET and generate code from that Web service contract? Now you can ... Read More
posted Wednesday, November 05, 2003 5:09 PM with 8 Comments

Demoing "contract first" approach with WSDL Designer
Showing the "contract first" design approach when implementing XML Web services. Read More
posted Wednesday, October 22, 2003 4:52 PM with 4 Comments

About the lack of WSDL design capabilities in Visual Studio .NET
Designing WSDL with various tools - but not with VS.NET Read More
posted Monday, April 14, 2003 5:31 PM with 12 Comments


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