Monday, July 7, 2008

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Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Training Kit

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The Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Training Kit includes presentations, hands-on labs, and demos. This content is designed to help you learn how to utilize the Visual Studio 2008 features and a variety of framework technologies including: LINQ, C# 3.0, Visual Basic 9, WCF, WF, WPF, ASP.NET AJAX, VSTO, CardSpace, SilverLight, Mobile and Application Lifecycle Management

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Connected Application Foundations using WCF, WF, and Windows CardSpace

One of the best presentations of WCF and WF integration using Dot Net 3.5

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Microsoft ® Visual Studio® Team System an integrated Application Life-cycle Management (ALM) solution comprising tools, processes, and guidance to help everyone on the team improve their skills and work together more effectively. This VPC release is available in English only.

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Sunday, July 6, 2008

WCF + Vista: Configuring namespace reservations

WCF + Vista: Configuring namespace reservations
I have just started to look into Windows Communication Foundation (WCF). When I tried to host my first service I got a nice error message from Visual Studio telling me to “configure namespace reservations” and giving me this link http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms733768.aspx.
After reading a little while I finally figured out how to do it in Vista:
Microsofts example:netsh http add urlacl url=http://+:80/MyUri user=DOMAIN\user
Using this example it sould be something like:netsh http add urlacl url=http://+:80/MyFirstService user=MyComputer\MyUsername
However, this didn’t work on the first try. Remember to run the Console in Administrator mode, or else you will get an error message like: “Url reservation add failed, Error: 5The requested operation requires elevation.”

Monday, April 28, 2008

Biztalk , WCF Debugging Tool - DebugView

DebugView is a very nice tool from Microsoft (by SysInternals), which allows you to see debug output from the kernel or Win32, local and remote!

Providing debug messages trough this system has been available from Windows 95, so you can trust having debug capabilities everywhere. I strongly belief this to be a very powerful way to provide information about your application, without having to write to logfiles, or attaching a debugger. Debugging BizTalk, Webservices , WCF Services , ASP.NET applications should also be easier when incorporating this.

But how do you make C# use this? You use the System.Diagnostics namespace!

System.Diagnostics.Trace.WriteLine("Start AddInterfacePolicy ");


To connect to remote machines, Click Computer then click Connect


Amazing thing is this tool is totally free

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Platform Compatibility
Client: Windows Vista, Windows XP (x86 and x64), Windows 2000 Professional, Windows Me, Windows 98, or Windows 95.


Server: Windows Server 2008 (x86 and x64), Windows Sever 2003 (x86 and x64), or Windows 2000 Server (x86 and x64).