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Wow, the world is really moving faster! In 2 weeks, great news are emerging: WinFx .Net Framework 3.5 Omri unveils the new features of .Net 3.5, and beta 1 is launched! Between some awesome features, Durable Services is the one which really called my attention! OASIS is calling for members in the WS-Federation Technical Committee It was about ...

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Thanks to a great tip from Guy Burstein's, I found how to correct the wrong schema in the Feb CTP. Just download this file, and override the equivalent in C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Xml\Schemas

Yesterday I came across a strange behaviour in WCF. If you use netMsmqBinding together with messages larger than 65536 bytes, your services can loop while trying to process poison messages. The ''thing'' is a server side binding property for netMsmqBinding, named maxReceivedMessageSize. By default, this property has the value of 65536 bytes, and ...

But no bits yet! Service BAT (Service Baseline Architecture Toolkit), intends to provide architecture guidance, wizards, code templates and tools to design service oriented solutions using ASMX or WCF. GAT (Guidance Automation Toolkit) is used as the glue of all the project and provides context guidance in VS 2005. For those reading Don ...

Lately in a forum, someone asked for a simple mapper between objects from different domains (ex: Service Data Contract & Internal Types). Here's a simple way of do it, just as simple as using serialization. We serialize the source domain object, handle the xml, and then deserialize it to the destination type. public static  object Map (object ...

While we wait for Galileo, US announced the civilian availability for the GPS satellite launched by US Air Force in last December. While a lot of you might wonder what does this has to know with services, let me just say that this new signal, named L2C improves the accuracy inside buildings and urban areas, and, better than that, it requires ...

Richard Turner, Program Manager on the WS team, talks about SO architectures, and the future of WCF for developing messaging applications. My favorite part is :''(...) after V1, we are going to start looking at getting Indigo into the Compact Framework, so it gets into devices, into fridges into pocket PCs, and set-top boxes and so on.'' Is ...

Clemens has done it again. Before going to MS, he released his new community project called newtellivision, showing how to stream content from WCF to Windows Media Player and Windows Media Center. This is a quite interesting project, showing up some cool consumer things we can do with WCF, rather than only applying it to big SO ...