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NDC – Oslo, Norway – Session Code and Resources

The NDC was bigger than ever this year, a fantastic conference with so many fantastic speakers I predict it will continue to grow next year and of course if you have ever been to Norway you know it ...

Tech Ed New Orleans– The Goods

Just returned from a fantastic Tech Ed, what a great event this year as it was sold out and jammed with lots of great sessions, hands-on-labs, and events to participate innot to mention New Orleans i...

Dev Connections Azure Tutorial

I am more than a little tardy with this blog post but the link for the tutorial code can be found here: http://www.dasblonde.net/downloads/windowsazureessentialslaunch042010.zip If you had already do...

Dev Connections / VS Launch April 2010 – Code!

Just returned from the VS Launch last week, and as promised here is the code for my sessions. I will post a separate entry with all the code for my Azure Tutorial which was on Thursday. And, as alway...

Dev Connections Las Vegas – Nov 2009

At long last here is my post from the recent Dev Connections conference in Las Vegas. It was an interesting time getting things up and running for the conference what with the PDC the week after and ...

PDC 2009 – Microsoft Technology Overview Code

At the PDC last week I presented a revamped version of my massive one-day presentation covering language trends, data access technologies, windows and web development, WCF and workflow, Dublin (now A...

WCF Proxy Generator - Significant Updates

Thanks to a customer of mine (thank you Christoph!) some major improvements have been made to the ExceptionHandlingProxyBase type. Plus, a duplex version now exists. Nothing like using the code in pr...

Exception Handling Proxy - eating your own dog food

The cool thing about creating an add-in for my exception handling proxy is that now it makes it easier for me to use it all the time when I create sample projects. Before, I would have to copy and pa...

Using FindBySubjectDistinguishedName

I have never run into this problem before, but I just realized that in WCF applications when I provide a certificate reference with FindBySubjectName - it can fail if you have two similarly named (no...

Giving WPF Some Love

If you know where my technology focus lies you might be surprised to see the term WPF in my blog...I know, it's weird. But not really! You see I have been working on a rather large project to give WP...

NDC 2009 - Get the code!

I just returned from Oslo, Norway from the annual NDC. This was my first time speaking there but it was a really great venue in a stadium setup - and as always the organizers at Program Utvikling did...

Tech Ed - Get the code!!!!

Here is my slightly belated session post from Tech Ed last week, including code samples for my tutorial (with Zoiner Tejada) and two other sessions. Tutorial: WCF 4 + WF 4 + Dublin Zoiner's WF cod...

Updating ACS Samples for the March CTP

A new CTP was released for .NET Services in March and as I update my Access Control Service (ACS) samples to reflect changes I thought I might post the relevant changes here to save all 5 of you devo...

Microsoft Technology Roadmap Links and Resources

Well, almost immediately following the tutorials I delivered at SD West and Dev Connections in March, many of the CTPs that I discussed were updated...and so I had to find some time to get my docs up...

The Open Cloud Manifesto - what I think...

The Open Cloud Manifesto is live at http://www.opencloudmanifesto.org. I wrote my opinion of it prior to its release based on some concerns that were already voiced in the community. Now, I get to co...

Dev Connections - The Code!

I just returned from Dev Connections held in Orlando, Florida...so here is my usual post-conference blog entry. I delivered my Microsoft Technology Roadmap tutorial and 6 sessions. The list is below,...

What happened to MicrosoftAjaxDataService.js?

Recently, I discovered that my code samples using MicrosoftAjaxDataService.js no longer worked on my new machine. I had assumed that .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 included the new AJAX-y things I was using ...

What is this Open Cloud Manifesto...anyways???

There is some buzz going on related to an Open Cloud Manifesto. Microsoft and Amazon are not (yet) active participants...(ahem) two of the major cloud computing players...and there is already a bit o...

Windows Azure Outage

As the press has been discussing these past days, Windows Azure had an outage on the weekend. I provided some comments to the press and was quoted here: http://www.crn.com/software/215900816 Only a f...

Dev Connections Las Vegas - The Code

I recently presented at Dev Connections in Las Vegas - a few of my favorite WCF-related topics including routing, performance and scalability, and federated security of course! This post contains lin...

Code Name "Geneva" (and no more "Zermatt")

"Geneva" is the code name for Microsoft's claims-based access platform (CBA) which comprises three things: "Geneva" Framework, formerly known as code name "Zermatt" "Geneva" Server Wind...

My Proxy Wrapper and the EVIL SUO File

A few weeks ago I was presenting a code sample that I created last year and discovered a mysterious problem. First, let me explain the sample. It is a proxy wrapper for WCF clients that illustrates...

WCF Security Guide from Patterns and Practices

P&P is putting together guidance for WCF security and is looking for feedback from the community. Now is the time to influence the results from your own practical experience so get in there and revie...

Visual Studio 2005/2008 CTP Setup - February 2008

I'm in the middle of preparing for a session at SD West next week where I talk about the Microsoft Technology Roadmap - basically an avalanche of technologies in one day. Each time I present this I h...

Dev Connections Las Vegas: Tutorial Resources

Thanks to all that attended the full-day tutorial at Dev Connections last Monday - Improve Your SOA: Designing a Secure, Reliable and Scalable System. It was certainly an avalanche of rich topics rel...

Dev Connections Las Vegas: Session Code

I just returned from another fantastic Dev Connections conference in Las Vegas. For the four sessions I delivered, this post lists the code samples and resources I referenced. If you are looking for ...

CardSpace: How Personal Cards Protect Users

I have working with, writing about and presenting on CardSpace for over 2.5 years now...and in the process refining how I describe to people the benefits of information cards for improving security f...

Debugging Tip for VS 2008

You may have noticed after installing Visual Studio 2008 that if all of your projects in a solution don't compile, you can't debug the one that DOES compile. This causes problems for me when I work w...

.NET 3.5 Roadshow Sample Code

As some of you may know, several of us at IDesign (Juval, Brian and myself) are in the midst of a two-week .NET 3.5 Roadshow - six cities in two weeks where we collectively cover WCF, WF, WPF, CardSp...

VS 2008 (Beta 2) Templates for WCF

I have recently made a series of posts describing changes to VS 2008 templates for WCF as compared to VS 2005 + Orcas extensions. See Technorati Tags: WCF, VS 2008 the post here: http://www.thatindi...

VCast Chocolate, Contacts and Vista

After my travelling without a cell phone nightmare which I blogged about here, I moved my phone number to a backup phone - the VCast Chocolate. Months ago I had thought that I might want to switch to...

Callbacks, ConcurrencyMode and Windows Clients

Today I completed a webcast as part of a 15 part series - today's subject concurrency, throughput and throttling. I received some questions about callback and Windows client applications th...

System Setup for .NET 3.0 and .NET 3.5

In preparation for our upcoming .NET 3.5 Roadshow (http://www.dotnetroadshow.com/) I am posting setup instructions for those who need some tips on setting up an environment to work with the latest te...

WCF Webcast Series

I'm going to be delivering 15 webcasts on WCF this summer, from July through September. Each webcast will be about 1 hour in length, touching on the fundamentals and practical approaches for your WCF...

CardSpace Samples from Tech Ed Orlando

A big thanks to everyone who attended my two sessions at Tech Ed Orlando on CardSpace. I also really enjoyed all of the great questions during and after each session, I can see a lot of momentum buil...

ASP.NET Performance Tips

Please see this updated post from the Dev Connections conference in Orlando (just past) for the code samples and references for the performance talk I stepped in to do. Some people were asking me abo...

Expression Web and Blend for MSDN Subscribers

This is great news from Soma's blog. Now Expression Web and Blend (soon) will be available to MSDN Premium subscribers. Many of us have been hearing feedback on the subject and relaying this feedback...

Learning WCF - Rough Cuts

I have at long last finished the final edits on my WCF book! Whew! Now, you can get early access to the entire book online at O'Reilly here: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596101626/ In addi...

Dev Connections Session - The Avalanch of Technologies

A big thanks to all the participated in this monstrous tutorial at Dev Connections. Whew, I can fully admit it was a lot of work to put all the information together in one place, bu...

Dev Connections Session - Localization from Beginner to Advanced

Here are the code samples I illustrated in this session folks! LocalizedWinFormsApp.zip (134.7 KB)LocalizedSmartClient.zip (416.01 KB)LocalizedGallery.zip (767.13 KB) ...

Dev Connections Session - WCF Security

Here's a link to all my security demos, including some extra demos on claims-based security and CardSpace. http://www.dasblonde.net/PermaLink,guid,1217187f-fe16-4426-9e38-a26552baedda...

Dev Connections Session - Practical Considerations for WCF Service Design

Here are some the examples I demonstrated in this session. DataContracts_Part1.zip (120.2 KB)MultiContractService.zip (156.34 KB)MultiContractService_UniqueServiceTypes.zip ...

Article: Extending the Resource Provider Model

As some of you may now, localization architcture is one of the subject areas that I have always enjoyed. THough I am in the midst of my WCF book, a few months ago I did wrap up a wh...

CMP and IDesign - .NET 3.0 Roadshow (THE CODE)

For those of you who are attending our .NET 3.0 roadshow (http://www.net3roadshow.com/) here are the updated code samples for my WCF Security and CardSpace talks. As I mentioned in ...

SvcUtil - Generating Proxies with List<T> and Shared Types

When you own both sides (client and service) it can be more effective for developers to share assemblies for shared types, instead of relying on proxy generation to duplicate types ...

Custom Context for WCF Services

I was intrigued by this forum discussion about attaching context to the lifetime of a service operation. http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=733385&SiteID=1 Ba...

Book Updates

I just posted updates chapters for RC1. See my latest post here: http://www.thatindigogirl.com/PermaLink,guid,fc8b6627-11b6-49d9-81a9-c19c9a383b0f.aspx ...

Service Contract Versioning

Oh my, is it really a new post from little 'ole me? Yes, I have been very busy with various projects, including my Learning WCF book which I'm trying to wrap in the next month here... I...

Data Contract Versioning

To follow my post on Service Contract Versioning, here's a snip from my book on Data Contract Versioning. ----- This lab illustrates several versioning scenarios for data contracts...

SvcTraceViewer.exe - Learn It, Know it, Love It

There's a nice little diagnostic tool that ships with the SDK for .NET 3.0 - svctraceviewer.exe. You WILL need this tool. It is a great way to inspect messages when things are going ...

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