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May 2011 event for the UK Connected Systems User Group took place on 11th May 2011 @ EMC base office in London bridge. Here are details of the sessions that took place.  Session 1 Topic: BizTalk Appfabric Connect (the need and the solution) In this session Imran will talk about the need of using WCF services in an environment already ...

Last night I presented to the London Connected Systems User Group on the subject of Windows Identity Foundation (WIF). The LCSUG community is focussed around building and integrating services. One architectural concern that has been widely ignored in service oriented architecture is identity and access control. Web based identity protocols such ...

If you see this error when hosting a WCF service under IIS 7.5 on Windows 7, HTTP Error 404.17 - Not Found The requested content appears to be script and will not be served by the static file handler. then you will need to ensure you have the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5.1 options selected, from add remove programs, turn windows features on / ...

Good things come to those who measure! I have been recently asked to investigate ways to reduce bandwidth utilisation of a WCF service and thought that it would not be a bad idea to share the results. The test was a relatively simple method call (search operation) performed on the client which would return ~500 objects from the server side. I ...

I have meant to write a blog post about client certificates in a development environment for a while now, as every time I come to implement it I forget a step somewhere. There are resources online for a number of the steps below, but I wanted to consolidate that information along with my own steps into a single place that I can use as a reference. ...

I have been using ANTS Profiler to conduct some profiling against some WCF services hosted on Windows 2008 that I have been working on. This was working pretty well with services hosted in IIS, but I was experiencing some difficulties when attempting to hook it all up with WCF services hosted in WAS using the net.tcp binding. I still don’t have a ...

I have been working on a WCF intermediary that receives messages from a 3rd party and routes this onto another WCF service. The intermediary service uses basicHttpBinding whereas the destination service is netTcpBinding. I have worked on similar patterns before, but they always had the same binding on each service and they worked well, therefore I ...

I had been working quite happily with Castle Windsor and WCF services using WCF Facility when implemented through an HTTP binding of some description. You simply hook in the DefaultServiceHostFactory from Castle.Facilities.WcfIntegration into your ServiceHost declaration such as the following example: <%@ ServiceHost Language=''C#'' ...

See this article here... http://kashfarooq.wordpress.com/2008/11/29/mocking-wcf-services-with-rhinomocks/  

I’ve been looking at the new features included in WCF 4, one of the most interesting and powerful additions is the functionality provided by the RoutingService class (System.ServiceModel.Routing.RoutingService) in this post I’ll show an example of how to perform content based routing using the RoutingService class. The example scenario is as ...