July 2006 - Posts

• Goodies from TechReady 3 CON312 talk on extensibility

  Thanks for coming to the talk. This link should take you to a zip with the presentation, the C# solutions (ignore the Starting Point solution--look at the Extensibility solution), and the Word doc that steps you through the sequence. Slide also included: Read More... Posted Thursday, July 27, 2006 7:47 PM by CraigMcMurtry | 3 Comments

• Opening your existing Windows Presentation Foundation (Avalon) projects in the new July CTP

  I'm very, very surprised that you can't find this documented in the blogs of anyone one the Windows Presentation Foundation team, so here's the tip: If you have existing Windows Presentation Foundation (Avalon) projects, and try to open those in Visual Read More... Posted Monday, July 24, 2006 8:58 PM by CraigMcMurtry | 3 Comments

• Versioning Windows Communication Foundation Services

  To show how to properly deal with versioning, I’ve created a versioning decision tree. It shows you what you will need to do to handle every case, and it also shows you the consequences of each versioning choice you might make. The white diamonds are Read More... Posted Sunday, July 23, 2006 4:09 PM by CraigMcMurtry | 17 Comments

• Windows Communication Foundation Hands-On! All the June CTP updates in one download

  You can retrieve all of the June CTP updates for Microsoft Windows Communication Foundation: Hands-On! in a single download here: http://www.cryptmaker.com/junectpupdates.zip . XP users! Grab this alternative version of the callbacks sample for chapter Read More... Posted Monday, July 17, 2006 9:54 AM by CraigMcMurtry | 3 Comments Filed under: Windows Communication Foundation Hands-on!

• Check out this wicked *FREE* book of Visual Studio Tips n' Tricks!

  Maybe there is a free lunch after all! A book that I always have at arms reach on my desk is the C# Programmer's Cookbook , and now that is joined by a new book, Minh T. Nguyen's Visual Studio .NET Tips and Tricks . One of the challenges that our Office Read More... Posted Thursday, July 13, 2006 5:53 PM by CraigMcMurtry | 2 Comments

• Fix for Intellisense and Refactoring for users of the LINQ May CTP

  Users of the LINQ May CTP will know that while LINQ is positively awesome, it knocks Visual Studio's coding tools for a loop. I have become particularly dependent on right-clicking on an interface and having Visual Studio provide a stub implementation Read More... Posted Wednesday, July 12, 2006 3:50 PM by CraigMcMurtry | 2 Comments

• What's new in the June CTP/RC1 release of the Windows Communication Foundation? -Reprise

  Awesome Ed Pinto has just published the official list of changes: The breaking changes document : http://wcf.netfx3.com/content/BreakingChangesbetweenVistaBeta2andJuneCTP.aspx The detailed API change report: http://wcf.netfx3.com/files/folders/4097/download.aspx Read More... Posted Friday, July 07, 2006 3:40 PM by CraigMcMurtry | 1 Comments

• Dramatically reducing the latency of your initial call to a Windows Communication Foundation Service

  Newcomers to the Windows Communication Foundation often observe that, when they are making several calls to a Windows Communication Foundation Service, the first call always takes noticeably longer than the subsequent ones. The question that naturally Read More... Posted Friday, July 07, 2006 12:13 PM by CraigMcMurtry | 1 Comments

• What's new in the June CTP/RC1 release of the Windows Communication Foundation?

  Well, for one thing, it is not accompanied by the handy list of breaking changes to which we have become accustomed, so here is my own incomplete tally of the important things: The change most likely to cause defects in existing code is in the way that Read More... Posted Thursday, July 06, 2006 8:02 PM by CraigMcMurtry | 4 Comments

• Windows Communication Foundation Hands-On June 2006 CTP/RC1 Updates: Chapter Ten

  The code to accompany chapter ten of Microsoft Windows Communication Foundation-Hands On! , updated for the June 2006 CTP/RC1 release is here: http://www.electronicfiles.net/files/3741/PublishSubscribe.zip . Execute the CustomPeerResolverService first, Read More... Posted Thursday, July 06, 2006 5:29 PM by CraigMcMurtry | 0 Comments Filed under: Windows Communication Foundation Hands-on!

• Windows Communication Foundation Hands-On June 2006 CTP/RC1 Updates: Chapter Eleven

  The code to accompany chapter eleven of Microsoft Windows Communication Foundation-Hands On! , updated for the June 2006 CTP/RC1 release is here: http://www.electronicfiles.net/files/3741/PeerChannel.zip . Execute the CustomPeerResolverService first, Read More... Posted Thursday, July 06, 2006 2:22 PM by CraigMcMurtry | 0 Comments Filed under: Windows Communication Foundation Hands-on!

• Windows Communication Foundation Hands-On June 2006 CTP/RC1 Updates: Chapter Nine

  Although I didn't actually write chapter nine, a few readers have asked for updated code for that chapter. The zip file at http://www.electronicfiles.net/files/3741/Behavior s.zip contains code and documentation showing how to add custom behaviors at Read More... Posted Wednesday, July 05, 2006 9:54 PM by CraigMcMurtry | 2 Comments Filed under: Windows Communication Foundation Hands-on!

• Windows Communication Foundation Hands-On June 2006 CTP/RC1 Updates: Chapter Thirteen

  New code to accompany chapter thirteen of Microsoft Windows Communication Foundation-Hands On! , compatible with the June 2006 CTP/RC1 release is here: http://www.electronicfiles.net/files/3741/RepresentationalStateTransfer.zip . The June 2006 CTP/RC1 Read More... Posted Wednesday, July 05, 2006 9:13 PM by CraigMcMurtry | 0 Comments Filed under: Windows Communication Foundation Hands-on!