Putting it together one piece at a time...
Just a couple of weeks ago, I was tearing my hair out trying to meet a really tight timeline and at the same time trying to solve a technical issue which in my opinion is a total waste of time. If anyone of you had ever tried to make SSIS and Oracle work on a 64 bit machine, I am sure you know what I was referring to. Fortunately we have people like Steve McHugh and Greg Galloway, who both wrote some excellent how-to articles addressing this issue. I've now grown so dependent on these articles (especially ......
It took me a while to come to this blog post from Bart. He wrote a very simple and easy to understand article on how you can invoke a workflow engine from a IIS / Self Hosted WCF service. This is very useful from the layered architecture perspective since most service-oriented systems will not have the presentation layer calling the workflow engine directly. More often than not (depending on the complexity of the system), you will want to inject a communication service layer in the middle to handle ......
I was writing a proof of concept which uses WCF, WF and ASP.Net 2.0 and across some problems when I tried to call a WCF service from the web application client. Turned out that I spent an hour wasted trying to debug my application because I did not place the proxy.cs file into the App_Code of the web application. I had it documented down and wrote a simple and straight forward tutorial on how you can use a web application to access and call a WCF Service. The article is uploaded into the article ......
I don't normally blog about this things or embed videos in blogs, as I think its quite annoying. This video, however, made me want to post it up. I stumble upon it in YouTube and thought it was pretty cool and perfectly logical. Take a look at it, and you'll probably agree ......
I've posted a brief overview that explain briefly on the concept and some common terminology explanation of WCF. The tutorial aims to provide a basic and quick insight and understanding of WCF. If you're interested to find out a bit more about Windows Communication Foundatin and wanted to have a quick overview, this article should be able to provide you with some basic answers to the immediate questions. In the light of preventing "excessive information overflow", the article is written and designed ......
For the next few months, I will be publishing a series of short and basic tutorials on development of a skeleton system comprising of the following technologies Ajax using ASP.Net Atlas ASP.Net 2.0 webparts and usage of some other user controls Windows Workflow Foundation Windows Communication Foundation Cross technology between WCF and WF Reporting Services Business Intelligence using SQLServer 2005 including database design, SSIS and AS Application to application integration through BizTalk 2006 ......
While developing WCF client/services, I frequently encounter this annoying error whenever I run my client to connect to the service contract for the first time. I term them as "timewasters". This post will partly serve as a reminder to me, and hopefully someone will benefit from it if they came across the same problem. The story goes like this, you start up your usual Visual Studio 2005 to work on a simple WCF's application (you know the usual service <-> client stuffs). So you created your ......
This is old news, but Brain Groth and Mark Berman released a demonstration of what I'll call a true-blue SOA hosted on Channel9. Very impressive piece of demo encompassing many applications and technologies. We see 1. Webservices built on top of legacy systems 2. BizTalk and webservices working it's magic3. Integrations with AS400s, SAP and some other systems4. SQL Server, Unix, J2EE Websphere, Speech Server and many systems which are unlikely to work together.5. Business processes driving systems ......
There're some difference between Indigo and WCF which I'll highlight here. 1. WsProfileBinding is not longer therewsProfileBinding is a secure, reliable and interoperable binding based on WS-Reliable Messsaging and used for one-way service contracts. Basically it's fire and forget. The current downloadable WCF installation no longer uses wsProfileBinding, instead you should use wsHttpBinding to replace that and use Reliable Session to configure that in the config file to enable reliable messanging ......
For the sake of all the lost sheeps looking for information on setting up development environment for Windows Communication Foundation, understanding its overall architecture and learning the basics of WCF. I've compiled some very brief definitions to some of the common questions and it's accompanied resources that might get you going. About WCF:1. What is WCF and when will it be released?As it's name imply, WCF is Microsoft's version of All-In-One communication package, servicing all your Web Services/WS-*/WSE, ......
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