Links – August 2009

I would like ScottGu’s Link series posts. Based on that inspiration, Here I am starting Link posts, for some new Links I came across as useful. Note: I will update this post, within this month
Last updated Date: 04-Aug-2009

Azure Platform:

• Azure Pricing Model: Pricing Model for Microsoft Azure is released. Details can be viewed in Windows Azure blog (or) in Azure Platform website
  
  
• GZip Compression for Azure Blob storage: Windows Azure currently doesn't compressing uncompressed data on the fly. Here is how to do manually.
  
  

Silverlight:

• WCF authentication in Silverlight: Mike Taulty's interesting post about “Silverlight could do WCF authentication using TransportWithMessageCredential security” is here
  
  
• .NET RIA Services White paper [July 2009]: Microsoft .NET RIA Services July 2009 Preview can be downloaded from here.  

• Out of Browser Feature: Silverlight’s new feature Links: Link1, Link2 (and) Link3  
  

 

 

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WCF Links, Web Casts, Notes

 

WCF – Webcast Links

Latest WCF Screen casts in MSDN

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/content/en-us/msft/netframework/wcf/Screencasts

 

MIKE TAULTY'S BLOG [Slightly out of date, but clearly explaining the concepts – MUST to See]

http://mtaulty.com/CommunityServer/blogs/mike_taultys_blog/archive/2006/09/13/8875.aspx

 

Nicholas Allen's Indigo Blog [year 2006 web casts]

http://blogs.msdn.com/drnick/archive/2006/05/31/611195.aspx

 

WCF (Indigo) – Some Important Blog Links

 

"Service Station", by Aaron Skonnard   (WCF Trainer, MVP) important Blog for WCF

http://www.pluralsight.com/community/blogs/aaron/default.aspx

 

Wenlong's Blog (Microsoft WCF Team)

http://blogs.msdn.com/wenlong/default.aspx

 

SOWMY SRINIVASAN'S BLOG  (Microsoft WCF Team)

- He is posting rarely, but extreme quality discussion will be.

http://blogs.msdn.com/sowmy/default.aspx

 

Nicholas Allen's Indigo Blog  (Microsoft WCF Team)

http://blogs.msdn.com/drnick/default.aspx

WCF – Some Important Article/Discussions Links

Message Contract (vs.) Data Contract : Discussion
http://www.codeplex.com/servicefactory/Thread/View.aspx?ThreadId=21927

 

WCF Service : ASP.NET compatibility mode
http://blogs.msdn.com/wenlong/archive/2006/01/23/516041.aspx

 

Must Check
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb332338.aspx

 

WCF instancing mode default (ServiceBehaviorAttribute.InstanceContextMode)
http://blogs.msdn.com/edpinto/archive/2006/10/16/wcf-instancing-mode-default-is-instancecontextmode-persession.aspx

http://www.pluralsight.com/community/blogs/keith/archive/2006/10/13/40522.aspx

And I attached my brief notes here.

MCTS 70-503 Exam (WCF)

 

Update: I added links to useful blogs and articles in new post, click here

Last Saturday 21-Mar-2009, I attended WCF 3.5 Certification (MCTS 70-503) exam, and cleared.

 

I did my initial two MCTS exams in 2007. After that, I was sayinng a long time about getting further certifications, but went only in words for long time.

 

Started preparation on 70-529 (.NET 2.0 - Distributed Application Development) after long time. As you know that was too delayed work. Because Microsoft has already released WCF, a new unified connected systems technology.

So continued with WCF.

Thanks to all who supported, and special thanks to Ashok.

I will update about some important links to WCF, in later post.

Fiddler : HTTP Traffic Debugger Proxy

While studying the basis of “ADO.NET Data Services”, I came to know about an excellent tool called “Fiddler”.

• HTTP Web Debugger Proxy
• Logs all the HTTP Traffic
• so able to view all HTTP communication, in may formats (as RAW format, as XML.. and may more options).

really useful, if you haven’t used yet, consider this. Here it is :http://www.fiddlertool.com/

Info about “Fiddler” in MSDN:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb250446.aspx

Earlier while starting with .NET 2.0 XML web services, I was struggled to trace SOAP messages communication. I don’t heard about this that time. Fortunately now no problem about that. :-)

Hello WCF

From a long time, I wanted to learn the unified distributed application development technology WCF. Yes, I downloaded many webcast, presentation…. from this year beginning itself. but,

 

Now, only I am writing WCF hello world, and this basic program is working. Hope I will learn more soon, and share some concepts here.

 

:-)