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	27 Articles found and displayed in this view. Real-Time Web Apps Made Easy with WebSockets in .NET 4.5 Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2012 Sep/Oct Release Date: Thursday, August 16, 2012 Quick ID: 1210051 In the world of browser-based development, interoperability is king. Unfortunately, interoperability can be at the expense of performance. Introducing Queues and Topics in Azure Service Bus Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2011 Nov/Dec Release Date: Friday, October 21, 2011 Quick ID: 1112041 In 2007, Microsoft unveiled a new vision called “Software + Services” that would fundamentally change the way that both Microsoft and their customers build software and have a gradual, yet marked ripple effect throughout the software giant’s entire strategy. Line-of-Business Applications Consolidation with Silverlight and Windows Communication Foundation Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2011 Mar/Apr Release Date: Friday, February 11, 2011 Quick ID: 1103031 It’s probably one of the most interesting moments to do a post mortem for a Silverlight project. The entire Microsoft ecosystem is boiling around the Silverlight OR HTML 5 debate fueled by the recent PDC and some statements from Microsoft officials. The interesting part about it is that it is a false debate, and like most false debates it will probably lead to nowhere. The simple truth is that Microsoft’s commitment to Silverlight has not changed a bit, and Silverlight is more healthy and strong than ever. And the fact that the same Microsoft places an important bet on HTML 5 too can only make me happy as an architect and a developer. Mostly because it assures me I’ll have my fair share of choices in the future without having to leave the development platform I like. The reality is that neither Silverlight/RIA nor HTML 5 will turn out to be the magic to fly us to the land of perfect web apps and, at least for the foreseeable future, there will always be a need for alternatives. That’s why I think the debate on Silverlight or HTML 5 is nonsense in the Microsoft ecosystem. But I digress… Let me tell you about the latest software project I participated in. Practical Messaging Scenarios with WCF 4 Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2010 Sep/Oct Release Date: Friday, August 20, 2010 Quick ID: 1009051 New Features in WCF 4 that Will Instantly Make You More Productive Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2010 May/Jun Release Date: Friday, May 07, 2010 Quick ID: 1006061 WCF 4 is all about productivity. Exploring the Bing API Using WCF Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2010 May/Jun Release Date: Friday, May 07, 2010 Quick ID: 1006091 The TV commercials took me and many others by surprise. A stream-of-conscienceless-style ad that had our brains struggling to catch up with the next topic that the next person blurted out. Funny enough, the bouncing from topic to topic by the actors in the commercial seem to be a familiar metaphor to anyone that has traversed search results at one time or another. And at the end, a familiar logo appears: Microsoft, followed by a not-so-familiar one: Bing. Creating Self-Scaling Applications with Azure Services Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2010 Mar/Apr Release Date: Friday, February 12, 2010 Quick ID: 1003061 Microsoft’s Azure platform has finally been released into production. This new entry into the cloud computing market provides .NET developers with a scalable, robust platform for developing applications.After over a year in CTP, Azure is finally ready for prime time. At PDC 2009, Microsoft announced the release of new components, such as the management API, that make Azure worth considering for use in production environments. In this article, I’ll demonstrate how to use the different components of Azure Services to build a self-scaling application. Chapter 1: RESTful Systems: Back to the Future Magazine/Issue: Online CoDe Magazine, Book Excerpts Release Date: Monday, January 11, 2010 Quick ID: 090143 Developers are rapidly discovering the power of REST to simplify the development of even the most sophisticated Web services—and today’s .NET platform is packed with tools for effective REST development. Now, for the first time, there’s a complete, practical guide to building REST-based services with .NET development technologies. Ask the Doc Detective Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2009 Nov/Dec Release Date: Friday, October 23, 2009 Quick ID: 0911131 Post Mortem: Tower48 Software Escrow Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2009 Sep/Oct Release Date: Friday, August 21, 2009 Quick ID: 0909041 Twitter Programming Using WCF & REST Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2009 Sep/Oct Release Date: Sunday, August 16, 2009 Quick ID: 0909061 Along with an easy site with which you can access your account, there are many really cool Twitter clients out there. This is thanks to an exposed API that you can use to access all of Twitter’s features. The great thing is that this API uses a technology that WCF has embraced completely; I’m talking about REST. Though you can certainly use straight network programming to access and update your Twitter account, why not use the technology that Microsoft has put all their eggs into as far as communications programming is concerned? Twitter is, after all, all about communicating, right? SharePoint Applied: SharePoint 2007 with WCF and Silverlight Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2009 Mar/Apr Release Date: Friday, February 27, 2009 Quick ID: 0903031 Silverlight 2 just went RTM. This product is unique because for the first time in the Microsoft world, you have .NET running cross platform, in a secure way, without all the deployment hassles. It has the ability to bring rich UI, right within the browser-much like Flash, but with more capabilities and a .NET heart.So, what does this mean to you-the SharePoint developer? Well, as I elucidated in my previous article, developing rich UIs in SharePoint 2007 isn’t exactly my idea of a good time! In fact, it is a bit like a 3-year old playing drums on your head all night long while his 7-year old sister is sticking chewing gum in your hair as you are trying to sleep because you have an early morning 7 AM meeting tomorrow in a recessionary economy.Take heart! The thin .NET 3.5 development model makes it all easier. The Baker’s Dozen: 13 Miscellaneous C#, SQL, and Business Intelligence Development Tips Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2009 Jan/Feb Release Date: Friday, December 19, 2008 Quick ID: 0902071 No, the title isn’t a misprint-this installment of the Baker’s Dozen will visit both sides of the planet. These days, many .NET user group meetings focus on database and business intelligence topics as well as hardcore .NET content. Over the last several months, I’ve spent roughly half my time modifying my own development framework for WCF. The result is some basic but functional factory classes I’d like to share. The other half of the time, I’ve been looking at different capabilities in the SQL Server 2005 and 2008 Business Intelligence stack, and solving requirements that BI developers often face. So rather than pick one side and make the other side wait two months, I decided to combine the two. SharePoint 2007 and the Thin .NET 3.5 Development Model Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2008 Nov/Dec Release Date: Friday, October 24, 2008 Quick ID: 0811031 As I am flying back home over the Atlantic, I can’t help but think how much better SharePoint has become after the introduction of .NET 3.5. I have repeatedly insisted that one of the reasons behind SharePoint 2007’s huge success is the application of ASP.NET 2.0 concepts to SharePoint.In this article, I am going to talk about the specific improvements .NET 3.5 has brought to the SharePoint 2007 platform, and how that has made my development life so much better. I will talk of three exemplary examples, and in subsequent articles, I will splice each one of these topics in further depth. WCF the Manual Way… the Right Way Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2008 Sep/Oct Release Date: Friday, August 22, 2008 Quick ID: 0809101 Visual Studio 2008 as well as the .NET 3.0 extensions for Visual Studio 2005 add several new templates that allow you to quickly create .NET 3.0 items such as WPF forms, Workflows, and WCF services. We’ve used templates such as these since the beginning of time to create traditional application elements such as Windows Forms, Web Forms, and User Controls, so you would think that these are equally great; or would you? Unfortunately, creating WCF projects or project items come with more baggage than you can imagine. They also don’t exactly promote the best practices I feel should be considered when designing WCF services. So if you don’t use the built-in templates to create your services, what do you use? Well keep reading and I’ll show you how to create everything you need manually with ease while maintaining good design and coding practices. Heard on .NET Rocks! Jim Webber on Guerilla SOA! Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2008 Jul/Aug Release Date: Friday, June 06, 2008 Quick ID: 0807091 In episode #337 (jeez, can you believe we’ve produced so many shows?) Richard and I talked to Jim Webber, Global Architecture Lead for Thoughtworks, about his favorite topic, Guerilla SOA. MVP Corner: A Baker’s Dozen of Reflections Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2008 Jul/Aug Release Date: Friday, June 06, 2008 Quick ID: 0807021 July August 2008 MVP Corner by Kevin S. Goff REST-Based Ajax Services with WCF in .NET 3.5 Magazine/Issue: Online CoDe Magazine, The Web View Release Date: Tuesday, April 01, 2008 Quick ID: 080014 Rick Strahl discusses Rest-Based Ajax Services. Building WCF Services for Deployment in Transiently Connected Networks Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2008 Jan/Feb Release Date: Friday, December 28, 2007 Quick ID: 0801071 Distributed applications are now prolific in the enterprise and more and more users are relying on network connectivity both on site and on the go so they can remain productive anywhere and at any time. Since network connectivity cannot always be guaranteed, what happens when the network goes down or a network connection is simply unavailable? How can you provide your users with the best connected experience regardless of the state of the network? The Baker’s Dozen: A 13-Step Crash Course for Learning Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2007 - May/Jun Release Date: Thursday, April 26, 2007 Quick ID: 0705041 This article will present a crash-course in the basics of Windows Communication Foundation (WCF). WCF is one of the exciting new capabilities in the .NET 3.0 Framework. It provides a unified and uniform programming model for building distributed applications. Those who previously built multiple code bases to deal with Web services and .NET remoting will surely come to appreciate the power standardization that WCF offers. WCF, like any other new technology, requires research and experimentation to become productive. This article will assume no prior experience with WCF, and will walk you through some basic exercises and steps to show WCF’s capabilities. Hosting WCF Services Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2007 - Jan/Feb Release Date: Friday, December 22, 2006 Quick ID: 0701041 Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) Services can be hosted with Internet Information Services (IIS); with the new Windows Activation Service (WAS) installed with IIS 7.0; or with any managed application process including console, Windows Forms, Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), or managed Windows service applications.Selecting the right hosting environment for your services is a choice driven largely by deployment requirements related to transport protocol and operating platform. Fundamentals of WCF Security Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2006 - Nov/Dec Release Date: Friday, October 20, 2006 Quick ID: 0611051 Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is a secure, reliable, and scalable messaging platform for the .NET Framework 3.0.With WCF, SOAP messages can be transmitted over a variety of supported protocols including IPC (named pipes), TCP, HTTP and MSMQ. Like any distributed messaging platform, you must establish security policies for protecting messages and for authenticating and authorizing calls. This article will discuss how WCF accomplishes this. A Look at Windows Vista from a Developer Perspective Magazine/Issue: Online CoDe Magazine, The Web View Release Date: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 Quick ID: 060053 Rick Strahl discusses Windows Vista for developers. How Many Threads Do You Need? Magazine/Issue: Online CoDe Magazine, Publisher's Point Release Date: Monday, May 29, 2006 Quick ID: 060033 Markus Egger discusses the need to create multi-threaded applications. WCF Essentials-A Developer’s Primer Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2006 - May/Jun Release Date: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 Quick ID: 0605051 Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) provides a run-time environment for your services, enabling you to expose CLR types as services and to consume services as CLR types.Although in theory you can build services without it, in practice, WCF significantly simplifies this task. WCF is Microsoft’s implementation of a set of industry standards defining service interactions, type conversion, marshaling, and various protocols’ management. Because of that, WCF provides interoperability between services, and it promotes productivity, including the essential off-the-shelf plumbing required by almost any application. This article describes the essential concepts and building blocks of WCF and its architecture, enabling you to build simple services. Future articles in this series will address specific aspects, such as transaction management and security. Beyond the Mists of Avalon Magazine/Issue: Online CoDe Magazine, Publisher's Point Release Date: Monday, February 06, 2006 Quick ID: 050153 Markus Egger discusses tools used to create WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation, formerly "Avalon") interfaces, in particular, WinFX Extensions for Visual Studio as well as the Microsoft Expression product line. Into the Future Magazine/Issue: CoDe Focus Magazine, 2005 - Vol. 3 - Issue 1 - Tablet PC and Mobile PC Release Date: Friday, December 30, 2005 Quick ID: 0512131 Tablet PC and Mobile PC development is very popular today, and it will get more popular and important in the future.For Mobile PC developers, there are significant changes coming in the near future, some in the Windows XP timeframe, others in Windows Vista. This article provides an overview over what’s on the drawing board or already available in technology preview builds.