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Wow, a conference that lasts 8 days, that a first. So here’s the gist of what I taught in 5 of these days: What’s new in WCF 4.5 In this 1-hour session I covered some of the important new features of WCF 4.5, such as Intellisense for configuration, UDP and WebSockets bindings, and improved support for streaming and compression. Debugging the Web with Fiddler In this 1-day tutorial we saw how to use Fiddler to debug, test, and improve Web application. We saw how to work with the session list, use...
First session of Day 4 was about advanced cloud service development . I came in a bit late so I missed the introduction, but the part about diagnostics and IIS 8 was nice – IIS 8 and Windows Server 2012 offer new stuff such as .NET 4.5 on web/worker roles, SignalR, and Websocket support. CDN and traffic manager cover was shallow, but the Service Bus part was nice where he showed service bus topics. Session number 2 was about Windows Azure Storage . There are a couple of new things coming to Azure...
Day 3 began with a great keynote session by Scott Hanselman, one hour that recapped my entire webdev history (being doing this stuff for the past 15 years). The bottom line of the session was – remember that you also have a very powerful machine on your desk (or legs if it’s a laptop), so don’t just throw everything on the server, try to also use javascript to do stuff. After Scott’s session I stayed in the hall for the TypeScript session . Writing JavaScript with JavaScript – well, as long as it...
So day 2 started with a keynote that had “Windows Azure” written all over the stage, so that was promising (see overview of day 1). By the way, if you’ll compare the stage to yesterday’s keynote you’ll see the stage is empty – that is because all the demos are in the cloud Some of the stuff shown in the keynote : Mobile Services . this feature was rolled out in August, but the demo was very good and managed to show the highlights of Mobile Services in a couple of minutes. Really great demo, I recommend...
Ok, first, just in case you aren’t familiar with my work – I’m a server/web/cloud guy, not a client guy, so all the hype about Windows 8 and Phone 8 sounds to me like “bla bla bla”. I’m into servers and Windows Azure, so day 2 and on is more to my like than Day 1. So day 1 began with the keynote where Steve Ballmer did his “shopping channel” appearance, showing the various hardware running Windows 8. BTW, in the first photo, on the left, you can notice an 82” surface . Then the keynote continued...
If you’ve been checking my blog in the last couple of weeks, you might have noticed I haven’t been posting much. In the past two months I have been traveling around the world, speaking in conferences and local user groups. So to sum up this intensive, fun times, here’s a list of all conferences I visited and links to all the material I showed. What’s new in WCF 4.5 Building scalable, low-latency web apps with Windows Azure Embracing HTTP with the ASP.NET Web API You can download the slides and code...
Early this week I had a session about building scalable, low-latency, secured web applications with Windows Azure. During the session, and despite all the network problems we had, I showed how to migrate an ASP.NET 4 MVC app to Windows Azure and incorporate the following features: Cloud services (compute) Storage CDNs Full IIS support Diagnostics ACS and claim-based identities with WIF SQL Azure Caching worker roles The demo code and the few slides I shown are available online at: http://sdrv.ms...
In the next couple of months, I’m going to say that phrase many times. My speaking engagements last year at VSLive in Redmond and Orlando , and in the North-American MCT Summit in San-Francisco marked my first steps into the world of becoming an international speaker. Until that time, most of my speaker experience came from speaking back home in Israel in courses and conferences, and here and there teaching a course abroad in Sela’s branches in the world. Speaking in a conference is somewhat similar...
It’s time for post No. 12 in the WCF 4.5 series. Part 1 of 2 was about WebSocket support with SOAP-based messages. Part 2 is about WebSocket support with plain text messages that enables the interaction between web browsers and WCF. Previous posts: 1. What’s new in WCF 4.5? let’s start with WCF configuration 2. What’s new in WCF 4.5? a single WSDL file 3. What’s new in WCF 4.5? Configuration tooltips and intellisense in config files 4. What’s new in WCF 4.5? Configuration validations 5. What’s new...
A couple of weeks ago (around Feb. 16) the WCF WebAPIs - a framework for building RESTful/Hypermedia/HTTP services, which was in development over the past 1.5 years as a side-project on CodePlex , has been formally integrated into ASP.NET and its name changed to the ASP.NET Web API. These past two weeks, there has been a lot of questions among WCF developers: What does it mean that the Web APIs are no longer a part of WCF – is WCF dead? Has SOAP gone bankrupted? is HTTP the new way to go for interoperability...
This is the 11th post in the WCF 4.5 series. The previous post was about the new UDP transport support, and this new post is also about new transports – the WebSocket transport. This post is part 1 of 2. This post will be about the WebSocket support between .NET apps using WCF (SOAP-based), and the next post will be about using WebSockets between browsers and WCF (non-SOAP). Previous posts: 1. What’s new in WCF 4.5? let’s start with WCF configuration 2. What’s new in WCF 4.5? a single WSDL file 3...
This is the tenth post in the WCF 4.5 series. I’ve started this series of posts 4 months ago when .NET 4.5 developer preview was announced; The Beta/RC/RTM version is still to come, but hopefully it will be available soon, and you will be able to use the new WCF 4.5 features in your projects. Until now, I’ve shown new features in configuration easiness and hosting improvements. In this post and the next one I will cover new transport features, starting with the support for the UDP transport. Previous...
I was asked yesterday in the Hebrew C#/.NET Framework MSDN forums a tough question – is it possible to dynamically call a WCF service using only the contract name, operation name, and metadata address? At first I agreed with the answer given in the forum – move from SOAP bindings to WebHttpBinding (“REST”). This of course makes things a lot easier, only requiring you to create a WebHttpRequest and parse the response. However the question remains - is it possible to do this in the case of a SOAP-based...
Today I answered a question in the Hebrew MSDN forums about consuming WCF from a .NET 2 client, using the “Add Web Reference” option of Visual Studio. Just in case you don’t know Hebrew I’ll sum it up for you – when adding a web reference to a WCF service that exposes a method of the following sort: int UseScalarTypes( int value1, int value2) The generated method signature in the client app will look like so: public void UseScalarTypes( int value1, bool value1Specified, int value2, bool value2Specified...
לפני מספר חודשים נפתחו באתר מיקרוסופט MSDN ישראל פורומים לפיתוח ו-IT. בחודש האחרון חל שינוי בפורומים, בקטלוג שלהם, וברשימת מנהלי הפורומים. כחלק מהשינוי אני שמח לבשר לכם על פתיחתו של פורום חדש לתחום הווב בניהולם של שלמה גולדברג (הרב דוטנט) ועבדכם הנאמן. בפורום ננסה לתת מענה לשאלות בנושאי פיתוח לעולמות הווב של מיקרוסופט – ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, Web Services, WCF, IIS, HTML/JS ועוד. להבדיל מהפורומים של MSDN, הפורומים במיקרוסופט ישראל מיועדים לקהל הישראלי, כתובים בעברית, ומעודדים כתיבה בעברית של שאלות...
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