I read this useful article @ InfoQ ( http://www.infoq.com/news/2008/03/wcf-metro-interop ). Its really interesting to see how top distributed computing technologies at Sun (Metro) and Microsoft (WCF) are interoperable. On the very basic level all the web services are supposed to be interoperable on WS...
For those who can't (or don't want to) deploy .NET Framework 3.5, the service packs included for the 2.0 and 3.0 versions of the framework are available as standalone downloads. Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Service Pack 1 (x86) Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Service Pack 1 (x64) Microsoft .NET...
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Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 has finally shipped. MSDN subscribers can download the final version of Visual Studio 2008 from MSDN Subscription Downloads , but anyone can get a trial version or an Express Edition . The .NET Framework 3.5 contains many new features building incrementally upon...
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Continuing the improvement of the CustomTextMessageEncoder (see this and this ), this time I'll use the XmlDictionaryWriter instead of the XmlTextWriter whenever the character encoding is utf-8 , utf-16 or Unicode . To achieve this, all that's needed is to look into the character set part of...
As I told before I've been using WFC to call legacy POX web services. Some of them only accept iso-8859-1 , others can accept utf-8 , but all use MessageVersion.None and the text/xml media type. But since the new XmlDictionaryWriter is optimized for utf-8 , utf-16 and Unicode character encodings...
Yesterday I had to build a custom message encoder to be able to call a legacy POX service with iso-8859-1 encoding. It turned out that the service had another surprise to me: it needs an HTTP user-agent header. It's something quite simple to accomplish with WCF . All it's needed is to add the...
I'm a newbie in WFC and, so far, only have done client code to call POX web services. I've been using a textMessageEncoding binding extension with a message version of None and a write encoding of utf-8 and all has been running fine. Well, until I needed to call a service in iso-8859-1 encoding...
There's an interesting discussion going on on the Architecture General MSDN Forum . Check it out.
Pedro Félix is blogging about WCF .