WCF Test Client in VS 2010
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 to test the service.
The client was also able to support when I transitioned to a message contract.
After selecting the type, you can then expand the element to view it’s members.
This is a great addition to VS and will greatly help testing services!
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Presenting on OData and WCF 4 at St Louis Day of .NET
August 16, 2010 - 5:45 am
Tags: conference, Day of Dot Net, OData, Speaking, WCF
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If you haven’t registered, you should join the 600+ people who have registered for the 2010 St Louis Day of .NET, making this our biggest year yet!
I will have two presentations that are scheduled for both days of the conference. Kicking off the morning with the JumpStart series, I will be delivering the WCF 4 [...]
The Protocol ‘Net.Pipe’ is not supported–WCF/IIS7/WAS
August 15, 2010 - 5:19 pm
Tags: Net.Pipe, NetNamedPipe, WCF
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Want to host a WCF service using the NetNamedPipeBinding? I did too. Except IIS told me I couldn’t. After some frustrated Bing’ing and Googl’ing I found my answer.
This article on MSDN outlines how to enable Net.Pipe in IIS7. First you must enable the binding for the IIS site you are hosting the service in using [...]
Speaking at the June STL .NET User Group
June 17, 2010 - 1:48 pm
Tags: .NET, Community, OData
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This month I will be presenting "OData – Make a Feed for That" at the St. Louis .NET User Group.
From the website:
You might have heard of ADO.NET Data Services and are wondering why it’s now WCF Data Services (Or maybe you haven’t heard of either which is another reason to attend this month’s user group!). [...]
MSDN Subscribers: Activate Your VS 2010 Trial With Conversion Key
April 14, 2010 - 6:51 am
Tags: Activation, Trial, VS2010
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MSDN has added a trial activation key for subscribers with access to VS 2010 bits. Log into your MSDN account, go to downloads, find your edition of VS 2010 and look for the key!
This saved me waiting a few hours to download the full version which would automatically update the key. Enjoy!
Pretty URIs in WCF Data Services – Lose the .svc File
April 6, 2010 - 2:45 pm
Tags: OData, REST, WCF
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I’m still testing this, but, it looks like in .NET 4 you will be able to use the new URL Routing to lose the .svc file in your WCF Data Services.
Step-by-step
Follow the standard steps for creating a WCF Data Service.
Create a new, “Empty ASP.NET Web Application”
Add an Entity Data Model
Once you have your [...]
VS 2010 Events in St Louis
April 1, 2010 - 7:08 pm
Tags: commuinty, Events, VS2010
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Monday April 12, 5:30 PM – 3 City Place, 11th Floor Creve Coeur, MO
High Speed, Low Drag: Driving Application Quality with Minimal Friction Mark Mydland – Principal Group Manager for the Visual Studio Team Edition for Software Testers, Microsoft Corporation
Software teams are continually under pressure to do more in less time, to [...]
Redirecting From a WCF REST Service
March 27, 2010 - 6:27 pm
Tags: HTTP, REST, WCF
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REST is based on HTTP and revolves around using the standard HTTP verbs GET, POST, PUT as well as standard HTTP error codes. The error codes that have to do with redirection are in the 300 block. Today we’ll focus on 302 which is the status code for a redirection (other 300 codes, such as [...]
Drop the Soap: WCF, REST, and Pretty URIs in .NET 4
March 17, 2010 - 7:11 pm
Tags: HTTP, REST, WCF
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Years ago I was working in libraries when the Web 2.0 revolution began. One of the things that caught my attention about early start-ups using the AJAX/REST/Web 2.0 model was how nice the URIs were for their applications. Those were my first impressions of REST; pretty URIs. Turns out there is a little more to [...]
WCF 4 – Loosening the Chains of Configuration
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 [...]
Reclaiming Your Identity with Windows Identity Foundation
Windows Identity Foundation is a new framework from Microsoft that helps to solve the identity crisis so many users face with multiple accounts for on-line services, applications, etc. WIF (dub-eye-eff, not “wiff”), supports the notion of claims-based authentication where a user will authenticate with an external provider and return to your application with a set [...]
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June 9, 2010 - 10:01 am
What if it doesn’t happen (happens auto-magically) what configuration is needed to start the tester?