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WCF Extensibility part 2: The big picture
Before I drill down into each of the smaller parts of the client-side channel stack implementation, I want to sketch out an overview of some of the moving parts of the channel layer. This picture is by...
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WCF Extensibility part 3: Formatting operations
Time to get serious and drill down into the first area of the big picture. We are going to take a look at “operation formatting”, which is roughly located in the highlighted area. One of the crucial...
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WCF Extensibility part 4: Applying formatting to operations
In the previous part we inspected the way you can influence the transition from a service operation to a WCF Message object. This was accomplished with an implementation of the IClientMessageFormatter...
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WCF Extensibility part 5: Make your endpoints behave
In the previous post we looked at an operation behavior that applied the operation formatter to a particular operation description. Because this is default behavior for all operations in the interface...
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Extracting files from an MSI package
Reminder to self, as I have searched for this too many times: How to extract files from an MSI file without actually installing it: msiexec /a c:\downloads\WCFRestStarterKit.msi /qb...
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Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for 2010
Yesterday I received mail from Toby Richards with the title “Congratulations 2010 Microsoft MVP!”. This means that Microsoft grants me this title as a Microsoft community contributor for another year....
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Two exam opportunities
Quick post on two beta Microsoft exams that you are allowed to participate in. Gerry o’Brien posted that the exams: 71-583, Pro: Designing and Developing Windows Azure Applications 71-506, TS:...
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Vacature “Microsoft Technisch consultant” bij Nokavision
Het bedrijf Nokavision uit ‘s-Hertogenbosch heeft een interessante vacature beschikbaar. Ben je op zoek naar een nieuwe uitdaging in het zuidelijke deel van Nederland, lees dan de beschrijving eens...
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A new role: Microsoft Regional Director
Since early March I have been given a new role as Microsoft Regional Director (RD). In The Netherlands there are two positions for RD, and for the past few years Marcel de Vries and Anko Duizer have...
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Choosing from all the great sessions at the Dutch Developer Days 2011
The organization of the Microsoft Developer Days has an outstanding reputation for selecting excellent speakers from abroad and both new and well known speakers in The Netherlands. This year I intend...
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SDN Event June 2011: ASP.NET Web Pages Framework for ASP.NET developers
Last Friday saw another edition of a Software Development Network Event. A number of great sessions were on the list. I got to see Marcel de Vries’s session on combined development for Windows Phone 7,...
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Portable Libraries for Visual Studio 2010 SP1
The Microsoft BCL team recently released the RTM version of Portable Libraries (PL). This PowerTool for Visual Studio 2010 SP1 allow you to develop managed assemblies for more than one target .NET...
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Using WCF and WIF to perform WS-Trust active claim requests
The last week I have been working on a claim-based identity scenario that involves two separate instances of a Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) 2.0 as Security Token Service (STS). The first...
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Getting ready to unwrap the big picture at BUILD
Tomorrow is the first day of the //BUILD/Windows conference. BUILD is a highly anticipated conference and expectations are equally high. I thought it would be good to put some of my thoughts on my blog...
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Revelations on Windows 8
Today the //BUILD/Windows conference started with a day full of main sessions. A two and a half hour keynote followed by three “Big Picture” sessions after lunch introduced all present to the new...
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