Thanks to all of you who came out to DevTeach and cudos to the organizers for running a great event. I hope to see you in Montreal in December. You can download the slides and demos I used in my sessions by clicking the links below. Introduction to Windows Communication Foundation Windows Communication...
VS2008 SP1 Beta is quite a package. By default the installation downloads the packages as needed and when needed. Now that is just fine if you only need to install a single machine. But when you need to install multiple, possibly virtual, machines like I have to it just wastes a lot of bandwidth and...
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05-16-2008
Filed under: .NET, LINQ, NetFx3, Workflow, VSTO, WCF, VB, DevCenter, ClickOnce, WPF, SqlCe
When I tried I received the following very helpful System.ServiceModel.ProtocolException with Message="The remote server returned an unexpected response: (407) Proxy Authentication Required ( The ISA Server requires authorization to fulfill the request. Access to the Web Proxy filter is denied....
Visual Studio visualizers are pretty cool and can help you quite a bit when debugging but you need to develop them and that just ads to the workload. So how about having someone else do it? Well Microsoft added a few visualizers to VS2008 and VS2008 but they are pretty much limited to text, html and...
While I was in Vegas for Un-Mix 08 , I sat down with Derek Hatchard to record a show for Devcasting . About a week later Derek decided to repave his machine but unfortunately, he forgot to backup the recording of the interview. We got together over Skype to re-record a couple weeks ago. What started...
The new ReceiveActivity and SendActivity that marry Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) and Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) are really cool . Getting started is easy because a new Sequential Workflow Service Library, found under WCF instead of Workflow in VS2008, uses nice defaults for everything...
Next march 28 we are hosting another SDE event in Ede, the Netherlands. There is an impressive list of speakers and sessions, check it out here . I will be doing a session about the new Workflow Foundation features in the .NET framework 3.5. These new features, also known as Silver, enable workflows...
Looking for more information about VS2008 and .NET 3.5? I suspect you might just be as there is a ton of new functionality and with the pace of everything coming out it isn't likely that you know it all To help learn the new stuff Microsoft has put a Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 training...
Using a ReceiveActivity is a great way of exposing a workflow via a WCF proxy. Get started by creating a new project based upon "Sequential Workflow Service Library". This is found in the WCF projects node instead of the Worflow projects node! Create a service interface, mine is nice and simple...
An article/walktrough I wrote on Using Custom Business Objects with Windows Communication Foundation has been posted to the Visual Basic Community Site . In my previous article, Getting Started with Windows Communication Foundation , I described the basics of creating and consuming a simple WCF service...