WCF has some weak spots when it comes to contract first development. Creating a service starting from a given XSD or WSDL is a scenario that is common in enterprise integration. One option is using svcutil.exe to generate a service interface for a WSDL file. Today I found a tool on CodePlex that has much more capabilities: WSCF.blue tool. WSCF comes with a lot of useful features (quote CodePlex): A WSDL Wizard that allows the developer to step through the creation of a WSDL from one or more XSDs...

One of the problems with the current version of Windows Workflow Foundation is how to handle different versions of your workflows. With short running workflows this is no big deal, workflows do whatever they are supposed to do and finish, and you can deploy a newer updated version of your XAMLX files whenever you want. Provided the public facing SOAP interface doesn’t change no one will notice a difference and everything will work just fine. However as soon as we get into long running workflows and...

I’m really looking forward to being at the SOA and Cloud Symposium in Brazil next week, as well as CloudCamp. I’ll be doing two sessions at the conference, “ Windows Azure Architectural Patterns ” and “ The Windows Azure Cloud Service Roadmap ”. I’ll also be on at least one panel, and can’t seem to go to a CloudCamp without getting involved somehow. I’m looking forward to catching up with some friends there, and taking some well deserved time off traveling around, including a full week at world heritage...

In the previous posts in this series we covered the challenges that Windows Azure AppFabric is trying to solve , and started discussing the Middleware Services in this post regarding Service Bus and Access Control , and this post regarding Caching . In the current post we will discuss how AppFabric addresses the challenges developers and IT Pros face when Building Composite Applications and how the Composite App service plays a key role in that. Building Composite Applications As noted in the first...

I have co-authored a whitepaper on the TechNet Wiki based on a customer project. The paper “Implementing end-to-end ordered delivery using Microsoft BizTalk Server and SQL Server Service Broker” is available here: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/implementing-end-to-end-ordered-delivery-using-microsoft-biztalk-server-and-sql-server-service-broker.aspx. Check it out on the TechNet … More » Blog Post by: Tim Wieman