endpoint.tv - WF State Machine and ADO.NET Activity Packs
Are you missing the old WF 3.0 State Machine in .NET 4? Good news! The team has released some new activity packs on Codeplex at wf.codeplex.comIn this episode Guang Yang will show us WF State Machine...
View Articleendpoint.tv - Workflow and Custom Activities - Best Practices (Part 3)
In this episode, Windows Workflow Foundation team Program Manager Leon Welicki drops in to show us the team's guidelines for developing custom activities. In Part 3, we cover Activity Design...
View Articleendpoint.tv - Canonical REST Service
ca·non·i·cal [ kə nónnik'l ] conforming to general principles: conforming to accepted principles or standard practiceIn this episode, I'll tell you about my new Canonical REST Service sample code on...
View Articleendpoint.tv - Making of The Lab - Intro to WF4
The new Hands On Lab Intro to WF4 is quickly becoming a hit. As I mentioned in the getting started video, this lab is a prototype designed to test the idea of producing a lab experience directly inside...
View Articleendpoint.tv - Meet SO-Aware (Part 1)
SO-Aware is an exciting new tool you can use with your WCF Services. This is not just another UDDI registry. Rather, this is a tool that works for SOAP, REST, and OData services and...you just have to...
View Articleendpoint.tv - Meet SO-Aware (Part 2)
SO-Aware is an exciting new tool you can use with your WCF Services. This is not just another UDDI registry. Rather, this is a tool that works for SOAP, REST, and OData services and...you just have to...
View Articleendpoint.tv - Troubleshooting WCF - Bad Address on Client
Don't you hate it when things go wrong? Most of the time on endpoint.tv, I show you when everything is working properly. On this episode, however, I'm going to show you some tools and techniques for...
View Articleendpoint.tv - AppFabric WCF DataService (C#)
WCF DataServices are great. Windows Server AppFabric is great. And what do you get when you put these two great things together? You get a template for Visual Studio, including guidance on how you can...
View Articleendpoint.tv - AppFabric WCF DataService (VB)
WCF DataServices are great. Windows Server AppFabric is great. And what do you get when you put these two great things together? You get a template for Visual Studio, including guidance on how you can...
View Articleendpoint.tv - Windows Azure AppFabric
We have had a lot of episodes about Windows Server AppFabric but there is another AppFabric that you may have heard about - Windows Azure AppFabric. Today I'm joined by Wade Wegner our new Windows...
View Articleendpoint.tv - AppFabric Caching vs. IBM eXtreme Scale benchmark
Greg Leake has been at it again. He has emerged from his lab with the latest results of benchmark testing of Windows Server AppFabric Caching vs. IBM eXtreme Scale and the results are something you...
View Articleendpoint.tv - WCF Contract First with WSCF.blue
Do you need to create WSDL contracts and WCF Services from XML Schema (xsd)? If so, you need to know about WSCF.blue, an addin brought to you by some terrific developers, including Santosh Benjamin...
View Articleendpoint.tv - WCF and AppFabric Auto-Start
Auto-Start is one of the hidden gems of Windows Server AppFabric. With it you can significantly speed up that first call to your WCF service and you can also do service initialization if you know how...
View Articleendpoint.tv - WCF Complex Type AJAX Service Sample
In this episode I'll walk you through the WCF Complex Typex AJAX Service Sample. This sample demonstrates how you can add an AJAX-enabled WCF Service to your web application and call it from...
View Articleendpoint.tv - WCF AppFabric Caching Behavior Sample
While I was out on holiday break I had this idea. What if you could create an operation behavior that would cache results for a WCF call and intercept the call returning the response from the cache...
View Articleendpoint.tv - Applied Architecture Patterns on the Microsoft Platform
Have you ever noticed that there are often several products or solutions available when you want to solve a problem with the Microsoft platform, and so you aren't sure which is the right fit? With...
View Articleendpoint.tv - WCF Service Data Validation Design
All this thinking about faults caused me to think about a deeper question. What would be a great design for data validation in a service oriented architecture? After some thought I proposed 4 Tenets...
View Articleendpoint.tv - WCF Web API - Content Types
Glenn Block joins me for a look at how you can use the new WCF Web API libraries to build great browser based apps with jQuery with new support for Form URI encoding and other custom content types....
View Articleendpoint.tv - Performance Testing with SO-Aware
Do you really want to know how to make your service fast? There is only one way to improve performance and that is to set a goal and test your system under load. The trouble is that there are few...
View Articleendpoint.tv - WCF Web HTTP (REST) Test Tool Preview
The other day, I walked by the office where our team members from Shanghai work while in Redmond and I ran into Leo Shum, a test lead on the new WCF Web HTTP (REST) Test Tool. On this episode, Leo...
View Articleendpoint.tv - ASP.NET WF4 / WCF and Async Calls
You've been asking for it and here it is. I've put together some sample code showing how you can use WF4 with ASP.NET and do it the right way... the fast way with async calls.For more info see this...
View Articleendpoint.tv - AppFabric WCF HTTP Template
Windows Server AppFabric and WCF HTTP Services are a great combination and we've just made it easier for you to use them together. In this episode, I'll show you the new AppFabric WCF HTTP Service...
View Articleendpoint.tv - Patterns & Practices Composite Services Guidance Project
My friends on the patterns & practices team are working on a cool new project that we want to share with you. The Composite Services Guidance project provides guidance for building enterprise...
View Articleendpoint.tv - Find Your Voice and Make WF/WCF Better
Are you sometimes annoyed by Windows Workflow Foundation (WF4) or Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)? Sure you are. All of use are sometimes annoyed by these products - including those of us who...
View Articleendpoint.tv - WCF Web API with Glenn Block
With all the emphasis on HTML 5 and devices, more and more people are thinking of creating services with the HTTP stack. Though WCF has had support for this since .NET 3.5, the WCF team has been...
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