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Domain models, services and design: about viewpoints, explicitness and first-class citizens
Please take a look at what Ganesh has to say about the principle of the "Viewpoint Flip" and how it enables you to better approach the design of services (let's not use 'SOA' too much in this context...): crisp and all-there-is-to-say.My opinion in the Read More
posted Sunday, March 02, 2008 2:58 PM with 0 Comments

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

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

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

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

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

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 0.6 feature complete
Yes, done - but not with testing. We have some really good hardcore testers. But as WSCF is in the meantime used by such a big number of people and especially inside of really large and important projects, we need to make it rock-stable... Stay tuned. Read More
posted Saturday, January 14, 2006 11:24 PM with 1 Comments

Bored at christmas?
If you really feel like bored at christmas you may want to subscribe as a tester of WSCF 0.6. We still need some few testers who really have time to spend testing this beast to death. Thanks. Read More
posted Thursday, December 22, 2005 8:25 AM with 0 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

WSCF 0.6 beta test has started
Tonight we sent out the first builds of WSCF 0.6 to our testers. Cross fingers that we will all have the VS 2005-only version of WSCF finally in our hands by the end of December. Read More
posted Friday, December 09, 2005 4:44 PM with 0 Comments

WSCF 0.5: Bug in code generation
Unfortunately, WSCF 0.5 has two silly bugs in codegen which did not show up during testing L We will provide a fix by the end of the week. Sorry for any inconvenience. Read More
posted Wednesday, June 08, 2005 4:45 AM with 3 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

WSCF 0.5 - delayed... like... well...
We are so damn busy… hopefully next week. Sorry. <EOM/> Read More
posted Wednesday, May 04, 2005 11:07 AM 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

WSCF 0.5: quick note
As we are currently receiving numberless emails per day asking when we finally will release WSCF 0.5, I will just make an official statement here. We plan to finish testing beginning of April (after my Florida trip) and hope to have WSCF 0.5 ready for Read More
posted Thursday, March 17, 2005 6:34 AM with 2 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

WSCF 0.5: New Features (VI)
Here is the sixth new feature of WSCF 0.5 - thanks to a number of feedback messages from our users: Improved WSDL Wizard - Various enhancements-We enabled WSDL round-tripping: loading the wizard from an existing WSDL and being able to add and Read More
posted Friday, February 11, 2005 3:16 AM with 2 Comments

WSCF 0.5: New Features (V)
Here is the fifth new feature of WSCF 0.5 - thanks to a number of feedback messages from our users:   Enhanced code generation - ASMX Web Service help & doc pageWe now provide a working Web Service help page that the user can use when going Read More
posted Thursday, February 10, 2005 9:00 PM with 0 Comments

WSCF 0.5: New Features (IV)
Here is the fourth new feature of WSCF 0.5 - thanks to a number of feedback messages from our users: Enhanced code generation - Misc improvements -Enhanced properties: we now check for null references when we generate properties for private Read More
posted Thursday, February 10, 2005 8:53 PM with 0 Comments

WSCF 0.5: New Features (III)
Here is the third new feature of WSCF 0.5 - thanks to a number of feedback messages from our users: Enhanced WSDL generation - Adding <service> element for better interop We now optionally generate a <service> element into the WSDL. Actually, Read More
posted Thursday, February 10, 2005 8:52 PM with 0 Comments

WSCF 0.5: New Features (II)
Here is the second new feature of WSCF 0.5 - thanks to a number of feedback messages from our users: Enhanced code generation - Interfaces We now generate a .NET interface instead of an abstract class with all the (unnecessary and duplicated) ASMX Read More
posted Wednesday, February 09, 2005 1:12 PM with 2 Comments

WSCF 0.5: New Features (I)
Although there are people who do not think that non-code-based contract-first design and development of Web Services is the way to go when you are on the .NET platform, I am still very convinced about it (whether it be .NET 1.1 or something to come Read More
posted Wednesday, February 09, 2005 1:02 PM with 6 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

WS-I Advocates Program - joined
We from thinktecture are proud to be an Advocate of the Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I). WS-I is an open industry consortium chartered to facilitate Web services interoperability and to accelerate Web services adoption in the Read More
posted Monday, January 03, 2005 10:06 PM with 0 Comments

WSCF 0.4 Walkthrough updated
I just updated WSCF's walkthrough document a bit - it now includes a download link for the sample's contract metadata files. Just in case you are running into any trouble while following the document's instructions. Thanks. Read More
posted Monday, December 13, 2004 3:21 AM with 0 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


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