I’ve been part of several conversations over the past few weeks where someone posited the question: Now that WebAPI is out, how do I (or my customers) decide when to use it or WCF? This question actually has many different flavors? Is WCF done? Does WebAPI replace WCF? Should I stop using WCF HTTP? Why is WebAPI part of ASP.NET? Wasn’t WebAPI originally a WCF framework? If WebAPI is part of ASP.NET, why don’t I just use MVC? What does WebAPI give me over MVC?   Is WCF done? WCF is not done,...

In this post I will highlight what the different pain points are when hosting a WCF Service in Windows Azure with Service Bus Endpoints (e.g. using HttpRelayBinding) Including Microsoft.ServiceBus in your deployment As many people know already, the Windows Azure AppFabric SDK is not installed on Windows Azure. Which means that you won’t have the Microsoft.ServiceBus.dll once you deploy your solution to Windows Azure. This first problem is easily fixed by setting the ‘Copy Local’ property of this...

A recent customer engagement prompted me to share details regarding a comparison of the REST API’s used to manage the Windows Azure Queue Service and the Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS). As expected, these services both provide similar types of … More » Blog Post by: Keith Bauer

Some time ago I did a number of blog posts about the beta versions of the WCF Web API . As it turns out the WCF Web API team has moved into the ASP.NET team, a good thing as far as I am concerned, and as a result it is now called ASP.NET Web API . Now this is much more that just a name change. For starters there is very little of the WCF bits still involved, in fact when you use ASP.NET as a host none at all. As a result it takes on quite a few characteristics of ASP.NET MVC with convention over...

Alik Levin, from the Access Control service content and documentation team, has written these great step-by-step instructions on how you can use the service for federated authentication using Windows Live ID and Google accounts in your Windows Azure ASP.NET application. Read the step-by-step instructions, and find a number of great resources related to the Access Control service in these posts: Securing Windows Azure Distributed Application Using AppFabric Access Control Service (ACS) v2 – Scenario...