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I spent quite a lot of time with WCF Data Services (‘Astoria’/’ADO.NET Data Services’ as it was) in its first iteration. It’s a framework that I really like so I’m feeling a little guilty that I haven’t found time to completely revisit it as it becomes part of a ‘much bigger thing’ (i.e. OData ) and...
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I did a short session on the Open Data Protocol (OData) last week at the NxtGen User Group and I thought I’d share the slides here. There are quite a few builds/animations in that slide-deck so I’d suggest that downloading it will produce a better experience than viewing it on SlideShare.
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I used to have lots of hassle around reserving portions of the HTTP namespace so that ( e.g. ) WCF services can listen on them. I remember writing about it here in the past. In more recent times, I avoid all that stuff altogether and just use a simple netsh command and this is a reminder to myself of...
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This post is made from a train where I got bored and noticed an email in a discussion list folder that mentioned that Silverlight could do WCF authentication using TransportWithMessageCredential security. I’m not at all sure if this is a new thing and suspect that it’s more likely that it’s always been...
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This is one purely for a search engine. If you’re ever looking at WCF and adding a BehaviorExtensionElement in order to add custom behaviors then take care if you see an error message like; "Verify that the extension is registered in the extension collection at system.serviceModel/extensions/behaviorExtensions"...
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I had a quick look at the binary XML encoding for SOAP messages with Silverlight 3’s updated WCF library. One thing that struck me in all this is that it looks like (i.e. as far as I can tell so far with reflector) that the WCF stack has gained binary XML encoding but hasn’t gained MTOM XML encoding...