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• Guidelines for Consuming a Service Using a WCF Proxy

  This is a blog I've been meaning to write for over a year now, but have just not had the time. Its as much a "note to self" as a blog for external consumption. WCF provides the ability to generate a client proxy that communicates with a service, such Read More... Posted 10 November 2008 23:04 by simon.evans | 13 Comments Filed under: Microsoft, .NET, WCF, Windows Communcation Foundation, SOA

• PDC08 : One week on

  PDC went by in a flash. Of all the conferences I've ever had the privilege to attend, it was by far the most intense, in terms of hours, subject matter and variety of new software to consider. For all of these reasons, I chose not to blog whilst I was Read More... Posted 06 November 2008 21:24 by simon.evans | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET, WWF, WCF, Windows Communcation Foundation, SOA

• Pro ADO.NET Data Services : Working with RESTful Data

  It's been a long time since I last wrote a blog post; around six months to be exact. It's not that I have not been busy writing though. In April I began embarking on one of the hardest things I've ever done; writing a book with my co-author John Shaw. Read More... Posted 26 October 2008 23:03 by simon.evans | 3 Comments Filed under: .NET, BizTalk, WCF, ADO.NET, Windows Communcation Foundation, SOA, AJAX, Silverlight 2.0, ADO.NET Data Services, ADO.NET Entity Framework, REST

• Dealing with Message Ordering in Service Orientated Architectures

  Message ordering is a key concept in a service orientated architecture. It is a key concept, because one of the core tenets of SOA is that a service must remain autonomous. In remaining autonomous, a service must be able to deal with any unexpected circumstance Read More... Posted 10 October 2007 15:26 by simon.evans | 1 Comments Filed under: Architecture, BizTalk, WCF, Windows Communcation Foundation

• A comprehensive guide to using MsmqIntegrationBinding with MSMQ 3.0 in WCF

  Overview of WCF architecture Figure 1 illustrates the generic architecture WCF employs for all services. Figure 1 - General WCF Architecture The outer service represents the AppDomain of the service. A WCF service consists of contracts (data, fault and Read More... Posted 17 September 2007 13:52 by simon.evans | 7 Comments Filed under: Architecture, Microsoft, .NET, BizTalk, WCF, Windows Communcation Foundation

• WCF serialization with MSMQ

  By default, Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) uses the DataContractSerializer to serialize and deserialize XML in a service, but this serialization mechanism can be replaced to use the XmlSerializer. The following article on MSDN covers this in more Read More... Posted 14 May 2007 17:03 by simon.evans | 4 Comments Filed under: .NET, BizTalk, WCF, Windows Communcation Foundation

• WCF Contract Design Guidelines

  Here at Conchango we have community days every six weeks where we get together to discuss common work interests. As a .Net Architect, one of the core communities I participate in is the .Net community. At our last community day, I presented on Windows Read More... Posted 22 April 2007 22:10 by simon.evans | 10 Comments Filed under: Architecture, .NET, BizTalk, WCF, Windows Communcation Foundation Attachment(s): WCF2.zip

• The importance of Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)

  When I first gained knowledge that Microsoft were developing "Indigo" well over two years ago, I must confess, I missed the point. I first saw demos of WCF at a conference around that time, and my initial reaction was "show me something Read More... Posted 05 September 2006 20:18 by simon.evans | 1 Comments Filed under: .NET, WCF, Windows Communcation Foundation