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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 as a SOAP service conforming to basic profile. Generating a proxy can be done by either using ...

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 there. I wanted to chew on what I had seen before blogging about any of the technologies ...

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. And now for a brief advertisement; the book is called ''Pro ADO.NET Data Services : Working ...

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 service contracts), a service instance (implementation) which is the implementation of a ...

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 detail: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms733901.aspx Whilst using the Data ...

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 Communication Foundation, a technology I have been working with in anger now for over a year. ...

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 I can't do already". And yet three months into developing with WCF and I can't stop ...