June, 2010

Today, we would like to announce the release of the WF Security Pack CTP 1 on http://wf.codeplex.com .  Where did it come from?  Quite simply, from you : real WF 4 customers who have spent time banging their heads against the wall trying to get certain security scenarios working with WF 4.  From your feedback, we’ve put together this Activity Pack to fill in some gaps that you have identified.  Let’s take a quick look at what is covered. The Microsoft WF Security Pack CTP 1 is...

As a .net developer that has recently spent over a year helping to design and build a SCSF winforms application, I have been looking to branch out into different techniques and technologies to improve my skill set. With Visual Studio 2010 coming out,...

Earlier this week I blogged about IIS Express , and discussed some of the work we are doing to make ASP.NET development easier from a Web Server perspective. In today’s blog post I’m going to continue the simplicity theme, and discuss some of the work...

Speaking of Interop , the .NET Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) team is planning its next set of features and wants to hear from developer’s experiences about how we can make WCF interop better and easier. For that purpose, we have provided a quick, to-the-point survey for you to provide developer-to-developer feedback. We are early in the product cycle, but need your feedback by July 15 th to truly make the impact we all want. The survey is here: http://mymfe.microsoft.com/WCF/Feedback...

Interoperability has been a primary goal of the web services standards from the beginning. After all, why would you go to the trouble to form a cross-industry initiative to essentially re-invent advanced distributed programming protocols like CORBA and DCOM, unless you could create standards that were broadly supported and truly interoperable? Interoperability is also fundamental to the whole promise of service-orientation. From it's inception, WCF was created to enable this interoperable, service...

As part of the Windows Azure AppFabric July Release , we have added support for cross-domain policy files to enable cross-domains calls to Service Bus and Access Control Service from Silverlight and Flash clients. This new sample demonstrates how to consume the AppFabric Access Control Service (ACS) and the Service Bus's Message Buffer API from a Flash application. You will find the sample as an attachment to this post. Enjoy! If you have any issues/questions/feedback with this sample, please...

The Windows Azure AppFabric July Release is live as of July 1 st , 2010. New features include support for Rich Internet Application (RIA) clients, and support for .NET Framework 4. Read more about the newest release here . The Windows Azure AppFabric Team

Hi all I just had the funniest (NOT) experience (AGAIN) with the new BizTalk 2009 project system. Somehow I had gotten into a situation, where I could add all the usual artifacts to a BizTalk project except schemas. I could add orchestrations, send pipelines, receive pipelines, maps, flat file schemas, property schemas, and flat file wizard schemas. So the only thing I couldn’t add was “normal” schemas. I thought: Who cares? I can just add either a property schema or a flat file schema instead and...

Most of the time I write simple apps that run in the local ASP.NET development server. I noticed when I started working with IIS more because of Windows Server AppFabric that my routes were not working when the web application is deployed in IIS. For Visual Studio 2010 / .NET 4 and IIS 7.5 here is what I’ve learned. Step 1 - Make sure that you have installed the HTTP Redirection feature This one was the killer for me. I didn’t realize that this is not setup by the Web Platform Installer...

I spent some time yesterday evening tracking down an issue with a custom WCF transport channel. This particular channel would support the IInputChannel channel shape, but with a twist: it would return a custom implementation of System.ServiceModel.Channels...

In this walkthrough I’ll show you how to use the AppFabric-enabled WCF Data Service (C#) template for Visual Studio 2010 to enhance your WCF Data Services by providing Monitoring events and errors to the AppFabric Data Store Eliminating the need to use the .svc extension in your URI Requirements Visual Studio 2010 .NET Framework 4 Windows Server AppFabric Step 1 – Create a Web Application Start Visual Studio 2010 Select File / New Project Choose a Web Application Template – for...

In this walkthrough I’ll show you how to use the AppFabric-enabled WCF Data Service (VB) template for Visual Studio 2010 to enhance your WCF Data Services by providing Monitoring events and errors to the AppFabric Data Store Eliminating the need to use the .svc extension in your URI Requirements Visual Studio 2010 .NET Framework 4 Windows Server AppFabric Step 1 – Create a Web Application Start Visual Studio 2010 Select File / New Project Choose a Web Application Template – for this example I used...

Gedurende een bepaalde periode kom je op het internet interessante zaken tegen of zijn er interesante blogpostings gedaan. Soms google je wat en kom je een oude maar zeer interessante blogposting tegen. In dit artikel wil ik een aantal van deze blogpostings...( read more )

Three months ago at MIX we announced and first demoed the Silverlight PivotViewer control. The Silverlight PivotViewer control enables you to visualize thousands of objects at once, and sort and browse data in a way that helps you see trends and quickly...

If there is one thing I hear from people over and over again it is this.  Please make WCF simpler, easier to understand and use.  I totally agree with this sentiment.  In fact, in .NET 4 we made it much easier but we still have a long way to go.  Once in a while each of us gets the opportunity to change the world for the better… (ok we aren’t solving world hunger here but…) If you want your voice to be heard take a minute and fill out this survey .

During my years in the IT world I’ve been fortunate enough to ton of really intelligent and brilliant people. Many of them have been a joy to speak with and work along side of. However a number of them have been incredibly painful to interact with. I...

Developers today build and test ASP.NET sites and applications using one of two web-servers: The ASP.NET Development Server that comes built-into Visual Studio The IIS Web Server that comes built-into Windows Both of the above options have their pros...

In this episode, Dave Cliffe, Program Manager for Workflow Services, describes the architecture of the Workflow Services infrastructure. For more information, see the Workflow Foundation developer center on MSDN .

In my recent post that addressed the key things that you should know about Microsoft StreamInsight, I mentioned the multiple hosting options that are at your disposal. Most StreamInsight examples (and documentation) that you find demonstrate the “embedded...

We’ve received several reports of an occasional issue occurring with VS 2010 when developers try and do “Cut” or “Copy” text operations of text.  In some cases VS incorrectly calculates that not enough memory is available (even though there is memory...