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Myth 1 - Kerberos is hard to bring into action in Windows Domain Controllers
These days I get to deal with variety of developers working on typical business solutions. I've had a lot of interesting discussions lately and I also heard some weird things about various technical things. So I thought about starting this "Myths" column...
Posted: Jun 16 2008, 01:10 PM by Buddhike | with no comments
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Hosting workflow in WCF and concurrency matters
Recently I looked at an application that leverages a lot of Workflow Runtime and Windows Communication Foundation bits shipped with .NET 3.0. It essentially had a state machine workflow which was hosted by a WCF service. Each operation invoked in the...
Posted: May 04 2008, 12:50 PM by Buddhike | with no comments
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Connection management - HTTP
Unlike the server application developers who used Winsock API directly in their code; now most of us rely on different abstractions like WCF to deal with Winsock API (and yes, this is a lot better). Each connection opened between the client and service...
Posted: Dec 22 2007, 02:35 PM by Buddhike | with 1 comment(s)
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Sniffing WCF applications in localhost
WCF comes with handful of tracing and logging options. We can just enable it with a few lines in the config and we are good to go. Furthermore the SDK comes with a handy tool svctraceviewer.exe (for wimps ). However, out-of-the-box trace output gives...
Posted: Nov 20 2007, 01:38 PM by Buddhike | with no comments
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WCF Threading Internals
Along with its bunch of different features, WCF carries a lot of performance optimizations as well (you think I'm kidding? Then see it yourself http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb310550.aspx ). As a part of this, WCF has given a lot of thought...
Posted: Aug 02 2007, 05:19 AM by Buddhike | with 1 comment(s)
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SOAP Routing – What has it gotta do with “To” header ???
During the past few days I came across some SOAP routing intermediary implementations (of course running on WCF ;)) and each of them were trying to route the WCF messages by changing the “To” WS-Addressing header in the message. In some cases this even...
Posted: May 25 2007, 12:30 AM by Buddhike | with no comments
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Cleaning up client channels
Most of us have our own style of writing code we’ve been practicing throughout our career. Using the “using” statement for deterministic resource cleanup is one of my must haves in my keywords bag. But unfortunately I cannot use this to clean up the client...
Posted: May 13 2007, 04:32 PM by Buddhike | with no comments
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A thoughtful look at Mike's Dual MSMQ extension
Mike Taulty has posted an excellent post on his extension to use WCF duplex programming model on MSMQ. In fact this is a very interesting area I and Christian spent a lot of time in the past for research… Christian has put a nice follow up here based...
Posted: Oct 27 2006, 03:03 PM by Buddhike | with no comments
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What you should know about service contracts
We at thinktecture are proud to unveil some of the internal conversations as we have a strong belief that they are going to help you when designing and implementing your systems. So here is the second attempt . The first one was published a couple of...
Posted: Dec 04 2005, 11:52 AM by Buddhike | with no comments
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Where am I heading to?
Just thought about catching up my missing posts while trying to adjust my self in the blanket (It’s pouring in Colombo) ;-). Every time I think about WCF and future of connected systems, I tend to compare it with the present and think why I should make...
Posted: Oct 18 2005, 08:40 PM by Buddhike | with no comments
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