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First of all; credits for this solution goes to a former colleague, and now a contractor working in my department; Erlend Rotvik of WebStep Fokus. The title might be a bit cryptic, so let me elaborate a bit on the subject; until last week or so, it was “common knowledge” that using the NetMsmqActivator...

A few folks have been asking if it is possible to serialize/deserialize using the DataContractSerializer. Rest assured, yes it is possible. Now whether or not it is the easiest/most intuitive model well that it is a different question. If you read to the end the post you will see a bunch of extensions...

tempuri.org is the default namespace applied to WCF Services and Workflow Services.  You can and should specify your service namespace. It is recommended that you explicitly specify a name and namespace for the service contract, and an action for each operation to avoid using " http://tempuri...

This post is part of a series about WCF extensibility points. For a list of all previous posts and planned future ones, go to the index page . We’re now entering the realm of the less used extensibility points for the WCF runtime. Operation selectors could well be left as an internal implementation detail...

A few customers have noticed an issue with WCF scaling up when handling a burst of requests. Fortunately, there is a very simple workaround for this problem that is covered in KB2538826 (thanks to David Lamb for the investigation and write up). The KB article provides a lot of good information about...

This post is part of a series about WCF extensibility points. For a list of all previous posts and planned future ones, go to the index page . Message formatters are the component which do the translation between CLR operations and the WCF Message object – their role is to convert all the operation parameters...

This post is part of a series about WCF extensibility points. For a list of all previous posts and planned future ones, go to the index page . The message inspectors, described in the previous post of this series, allows you complete control over the message going through the WCF stack. They’re very...

Note: This is based on .Net and Workflow 4.0 pre-Beta code. Microsoft's Workflow 4.0 is a major upgrade to the user experience for developing workflows using the designer inside Visual Studios. This new designer is inside Visual Studios 10 and lowers the bar for developers to do useful tasks in a...

Note: This is based on .Net and Workflow 4.0 pre-Beta code. Workflow 4.0 is a major upgrade to the user experience for developing workflows using the designer inside Visual Studios. This new designer is inside Visual Studios 10 and lowers the bar for developers to do useful tasks in a controlled and...