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Velocity Cache API needs TryGetValue

Ok, Ive just started working with Microsofts Distributed Caching API (aka Velocity) and while Im very happy with the features thus far (cant wait for notifications!), I really think the API needs a Tr...

How to do SSL pass-through with WCF (a link for the MVP crowd)

I sat in on a very informative roundtable discussion about WCF tips, tricks and pitfalls this afternoon here at the MVP conference. In that discussion one of the topics that came up was load balancing...

Mimeo looking for a Web Services freak of nature

Alright, I'm reaching out via my blog for anyone in the NYC area who has strong experience writing web services and wants to join an awesome team, using awesome, bleeding edge technology to develop an...

System.ServiceModel.Web and FaultExceptions

For those who may not already know WCF that well, FaultException is a special type of exception class that exists as a way for those of us who are writing service operations that need to throw errors ...

System.ServiceModel.Web: be aware of differences in element names when using BodyStyle Bare vs. Wrapped

I've been doing a lot of digging around System.ServiceModel.Web lately and have come across a subtle difference in the way the XML is produced for POX endpoints when switching between BodyStyle.Bare a...

System.ServiceModel.Web limitations

I have been playing with this System.ServiceModel.Web for about a week now trying to get real world prototypes together and, in addition to having a hard time understanding some of their design choice...

Vote on ASP.NET AJAX Web Service Exception Handling Bug

I've reported a bug over on connect with the full details, but basically what it boils down to is that there's no way to raise exception detail from ScriptMethods when ASP.NET custom error handling is...

I've hit a snag with TransportWithMessageCredential over plain HTTP

So a couple days ago I posted an entry about how to implement a custom transport that allows you to send message credentials over plain old HTTP. Unfortunately when I rolled this into the test environ...

Collection properties need a setter implementation when using DataContractSerializer

I was having a problem with serializing a FaultException that had a custom details class that was a collection. Today I figured out that, when using the DataContractSerializer, you need to make sure y...

Collection property serialization with DataContractSerializer takes us a step backwards?

Since I have to define my fault details with DataContractSerializer attributes for now (I hope it's only for now anyway), I was looking at how to translate a property that was previously serialized by...

WCF Fault Detail serialization does not support XmlSerializerFormat?

Just found out WCF does not supporting XmlSerializerFormat for custom fault details (see note under Creating Strongly Typed Faults section here). Everything else in my contracts is defined using this ...

How To: SSL Passthrough with WCF

I asked a question in the forums a week or so ago about how one could go aboutgetting username credentials to be passed through HTTP. The problem is that, out of the box,WCF will not allow you to spec...

Providing custom context to your WCF service instance

In my last post about providing custom contextI described a way that allowed you to scope the context to the operation/method level.This time I'm going to show you a way that will allow youto scope yo...

Providing custom context to your WCF service operations

First off, I'd like to say that I absolutely love how extensible WCF is. So far there hasn't beenanything I can't do.Unfortunately the documentation, examples and guidance around extensibility is stil...

WPF MSDN Browser

Inspired by Craig's MSDNMan, Ian has created an MSDN browser with WPF. If, like me, you read a ton of MSDN content every day, both of these tools are extreeeemely welcome additions to browsing the onl...

I Have Arrived @ PDC '05

Currently blogging from my little hotel room desk at the Wilshire Grand. I'm in room 446, my cell is 973.699.0532. Feel free togive me a buzzif you'd like to chat or grab some grub.One thing I will sa...

Yahoo Web Service APIs

Well Yahoo has released their search engine web service APIs. The fact that they chose to ignore industry standard communication protocols (SOAP + WS-*) was just a bad decision IMHO. Now all the toolk...

String: The XML World's Equivalent of void*

So I jumped into a discussion on microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.webservices where the author asked the best way to send DataSets over web services. One of the initial responses was basically (to pa...

Amazon Message Queuing Web Service...

Ijust noticedAmazon isbeta testing a Message Queuing Web Service(via TSS.NET). What has me scratching my head here is, what exactly is Amazon doing here Are they getting into the software business now...

Why is WSE2's SoapClient class abstract

Ok, so the question in the title a little misleading... I actually know why it's abstract, but what I don't understand why it was designed that way. It forces me to always subclass it and add my own m...

Web Services: Contract First

I was reading Don's blog this morning and he links to Aaron's post about designing web services with the "contract first" mentality. Here's my two cents: To answer question #1: Yes, I absolutely bel...

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