March 8, 2010 - 8:47 pm
Tags: .NET, VS2010, WCF
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If you have spent anytime in WCF land the first thing you learn about is the joys of configuration. For the coming release of .NET 4 and WCF 4 the team heard that feedback and has made configuration much easier for the development experience.
Let’s take a look at what’s changed:
Sample 1 – WCF Configuration on [...]
January 25, 2010 - 4:00 pm
Tags: Development, Presentations, SOLID
Posted in Development | 4 comments
Solid Development @SlideShare.net
View more presentations from Chris Deweese.
You can download the code for Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 zipped up and ready to go here.
January 19, 2010 - 2:38 pm
Tags: .NET, Architecture, Services, WCF
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Since working with WCF I have gleaned quite a bit about how the runtime works through reading various blogs and writing proofs-of-concept/experiments. One thing that has become apparent to me is that many people working with WCF do not fully understand how it works because Visual Studio makes it very easy to create & consume [...]
Public speaking was a skill I consider important and continue to struggle with as I do more presenting. During my mid-twenties working full-time and going to school helped shape how I viewed classroom learned concepts and skills and applying them in the “real-world”. Throughout my career I have been fortunate enough to present to various [...]
December 28, 2009 - 8:28 am
Tags: .NET, VS2010, WCF
Posted in Visual Studio, WCF | No comments
The other day I fired up a WCF service for the “Take Control of Messages” post and to my surprise a test client opened up which felt very similar to SoapUI.
Loading & Adding the service reference (happens auto-magically)
Double-clicking on a service operation brings up the test form.
Fill out the data elements and press invoke [...]
December 22, 2009 - 11:56 am
Tags: Development, refactoring, SOLID
Posted in Development | 1 comment
The acronym for SOLID has been making rounds for some time now. SOLID is a set of principles that will help you write code that is easier to understand, maintain, and simple.
Writing SOLID code is not easy and takes effort and craftsmanship. The road to SOLID is not a direct route and you’ll need [...]
November 23, 2009 - 10:02 pm
Tags: Dependency Injection, IoC, Presentations, WCF
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The code from “Inverting Control in WCF” has been posted to Codeplex here. Feel free to ping me with questions on Twitter or through this blog!
Thanks to all who attended and a big thanks to Alvin Ashcraft for hosting and to all the other organizers & sponsors!
November 19, 2009 - 8:18 pm
Tags: Presentations, WCF
Posted in Public Appearances | No comments
I will be presenting “Inverting Control in WCF” for #notatpdc in a live webcast tomorrow. If you have time, join us on for this live meeting!
“WCF provides many extension points and in this session Chris will cover how to wire up an Inversion of Control container into the WCF stack. Chris will discuss behaviors, instance providers, [...]
November 10, 2009 - 2:30 pm
Tags: .NET, LINQ, NIEM, WCF
Posted in Development, NIEM | 1 comment
Over the years while working with .NET and NIEM I’ve run into a few kinks that require a setting tweak or an extra step to get it to work.
.NET General
Choices for working with NIEM Xml (From the .NET Base class library. There are third-party tools out there to assist as well):
Serialization / Deserialization – [...]