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It's been a few weeks since my last blog post mainly due to the fact that it's been an extremely busy month for us at Tellago . We have been heads down working on several fun projects that we are expecting to share with the dev community in the...

This is part nine of a twelve part series that introduces the features of WCF WebHttp Services in .NET 4. In this post we will cover: Learning the basics of T4 (Text Template Transformation Toolkit) Using T4 to create views in WCF WebHttp Services for text-based content Over the course of this blog post series, we are building a web service called TeamTask . TeamTask allows a team to track tasks assigned to members of the team. Because the code in a given blog post builds upon the code from the previous...

As Meagon announced over on her blog , I’m heading to the SoCal Code Camp this weekend two give a few of my favorite talks in sunny California: Why you need some REST 12:15 PM - Saturday, January 30, 2010 Location: UH 319 REST is quickly becoming the...

This is part six of a twelve part series that introduces the features of WCF WebHttp Services in .NET 4. In this post we will cover: Composing multiple WCF WebHttp Services into a single web service Using ASP.NET routes with WCF WebHttp Services Over the course of this blog post series, we are building a web service called TeamTask . TeamTask allows a team to track tasks assigned to members of the team. Because the code in a given blog post builds upon the code from the previous posts, the posts...

This is part five of a twelve part series that introduces the features of WCF WebHttp Services in .NET 4. In this post we will cover: Handling Errors with the WebFaultException class Over the course of this blog post series, we are building a web service called TeamTask . TeamTask allows a team to track tasks assigned to members of the team. Because the code in a given blog post builds upon the code from the previous posts, the posts are intended to be read in-order. Downloading the TeamTask Code...

This is part three of a twelve part series that introduces the features of WCF WebHttp Services in .NET 4. In this post we will cover: Creating operations for updating server state with the [WebInvoke] attribute Persisting changes with the ADO.NET Entity Framework in a web service scenario Over the course of this blog post series, we are building a web service called TeamTask . TeamTask allows a team to track tasks assigned to members of the team. Because the code in a given blog post builds upon...

A few months ago my colleague Don Demsak and I started collaborating on a paper about the principles of "Lightweight SOAs". Fundamentally, the paper intends to demystify some of the aspects around big SOA enterprise projects and propose some...

Over the next six weeks we are going to be releasing a series of blog posts that will focus on the new features in .NET 4 around WCF WebHttp Services . WCF WebHttp Services is the flavor of WCF that is most appropriate for developers who need complete control over the URI, format, and protocol when building non-SOAP HTTP services—services that may or may not subscribe to RESTful architectural constraints. For the other technologies in the WCF services eco-system and the developer scenarios they best...

At PDC, Microsoft announced the rebranding of ADO.NET Data Services as WCF Data Services and of .NET RIA Services as WCF RIA Services . This is not just a product marketing decision – it is also a technical commitment to provide a coherent and unified services story on .NET. The current implementations of ADO.NET Data Services (previously known as Codename ‘Astoria’) and .NET RIA Services (previously known as Codename ‘Alexandria’) are based on WCF. In fact, they are WCF services. Moving forward...

Next Tuesday (November 10th) my colleague Uri Katsir will be presenting a session at the South Florida BizTalk Users Group about improving agility in large BizTalk environments using the ESB toolkit. If you are a BizTalk developer or operations architect...