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Streaming large content with WCF and deferred execution
I will use this post to discuss an scenario that you may run into while working with WCF, a service that returns a lot of objects (Or large data) to the client applications. This scenario is not about transferring files, that is a completely different...
Posted 10 June 2008 01:39 PM by cibrax | 3 comment(s)
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Unit Tests for WCF (and Moq) Part II
My latest post about "creating wrapper classes" for mocking the WCF context has started generating some controversies . I initially wrote those classes to decouple my service implementation from the concrete implementation of the WCF context, something...
Posted 20 May 2008 02:28 PM by cibrax | 1 comment(s)
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Unit tests for WCF (And Moq)
As you may know, testing WCF services is not as simple as referencing a service implementation and start writing unit tests against it. If the service we want to test has a high dependency with the operation context, which is an static class, testing...
Posted 16 May 2008 11:05 AM by cibrax | 7 comment(s)
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Federation Over TCP With WCF
One of the discussions that we had during the last summit with the rest of "Connected Systems" MVPs was the possibility of supporting a Federation Scenario over TCP in WCF. For many of us that scenario was possible in theory, but unfortunately no documentation...
Posted 21 April 2008 03:38 PM by cibrax | 3 comment(s)
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Authenticating users with Supporting Tokens in WCF - Binding Extension
A couple of months ago I described a useful authentication pattern for Web applications based on supporting tokens, one of features provided by WCF. After that, Dominick Baier wrote a nice and intuitive article showing this pattern in practice with real...
Posted 26 March 2008 11:59 AM by cibrax | with no comments
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Single Sign-On scenarios with Federation
Before reading this post, if you know the basic concepts and ideas behind the implementation of an STS with WCF, go ahead and jump to the next paragraph. Otherwise, I recommend you to read the following post Implementing a Secure Token Service with WCF...
Posted 11 February 2008 10:17 AM by cibrax | 1 comment(s)
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WCF - Syndication Extensions
Syndication support was one of the nice features introduced in the latest WCF drop (3.5). At first glance, I can say the APIs are great, allowing you to write a syndication feed in matter of minutes without worrying much of some underline implementation...
Posted 08 February 2008 03:29 PM by cibrax | with no comments
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Authenticating users with Supporting Tokens in WCF
Context A web application used by a great number of users calls a Web service by sending messages across a network, sometimes through one or more intermediaries. The web service needs to identify the user logged in the web application somehow to update...
Posted 22 January 2008 10:27 AM by cibrax | 3 comment(s)
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Configuration Merge for WCF
One of the blog's readers from Italy, Fabio Cozzolino has written a interesting host for WCF that gets and merges configuration from different configuration files. You can download the code from his post , which is completely in Italian. (Anyway, the...
Posted 24 December 2007 08:26 AM by cibrax | with no comments
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WCF Dependency Injection Behavior
Many times the services are just part of a service layer interface or facade that only delegate calls to other components in lower layers, such as entity translators, business logic components, data access components or service agents that work as proxy...
Posted 13 December 2007 10:13 AM by cibrax | 9 comment(s)
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