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Troubleshooting your WCF Web Apis with AppFabric
In this last post, I showed how the new WCF Web Apis could be integrated with AppFabric for pushing custom events to the AppFabric tracking database. A great thing about the monitoring infrastructure in AppFabric is that is uses ETW as mechanism for publishing the events, so your services are not hitting the database directly with all the performance penalties that database calls imply.
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My frustrations with MVVM in Silverlight
There is no doubt that the MVVM pattern offers a clean separation of concern for building testable user interfaces with WPF and Silverlight. This pattern relies on the data binding support in those two technologies for mapping an existing model class (the view model) to the different parts of the UI or view.
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Making your WCF Web Apis to speak in multiple languages
One of the key aspects of how the web works today is content negotiation. The idea of content negotiation is based on the fact that a single resource can have multiple representations, so user agents (or clients) and servers can work together to chose one of them.
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Service Testing made easy with SO-Aware Test Workbench
I happy to announce today a new addition to our SO-Aware service repository toolset, SO-Aware Test Workbench, a WPF desktop application for doing functional and load testing against existing WCF Services.
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Monitoring your WCF Web Apis with AppFabric
The other day, Ron Jacobs made public a template in the Visual Studio Gallery for enabling monitoring capabilities to any existing WCF Http service hosted in Windows AppFabric. I thought it would be a cool idea to reuse some of that for doing the same thing on the new WCF Web Http stack.