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Service Station, by Aaron Skonnard
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My latest whitepaper has been published on MSDN – it’s called A Developer’s Guide to the WCF REST Starter Kit . Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) 3.5 introduced a “Web” programming model for building RESTful services in .NET. Although WCF...
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I had a great time speaking at the Utah Code Camp this weekend - a fun event with engaging attendees and lots of good swag from sponsors. If you’re looking for the slides from my presentations, you can grab them here: Service Virtualization and the Managed...
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Last week we rolled out a new feature within our Pluralsight On-Demand! training library. It’s now possible for subscribers to download the slides associated with each online module in PDF format. This gives subscribers an offline reference while...
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Last week while I was on vacation they published my latest whitepaper on MSDN. It covers the various new features found in WCF 4.0. The following abstract will give you a better of idea of the main areas I cover in this 60+ page paper: A Developer’s Introduction...
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Over the past several months, I’ve spent a lot of time exploring the concept of service virtualization. Service virtualization is an emerging trend in the SOA landscape that focuses on providing a common infrastructure for building and managing a complex...
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Although I spend most of my development focus on WCF, I’ve become more and more intrigued by the possibility of using ASP.NET MVC as another framework for building RESTful services – this is especially compelling when using XHTML for your resource representations...
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I had a great time speaking last week at DevDays 2009 in Den Haag (The Hague), along with Fritz , Keith , and Matt . It was my first time in The Netherlands and I absolutely loved it there. The first thing I noticed when leaving the train station was...
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Over the past several weeks, we’ve published several significant updates to the Pluralsight On-Demand! library. I figured a blog post summarizing these updates would be helpful to our subscribers. So here it goes… We updated the ASP.NET MVC...
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Recently, Greg Leake (Senior Director Developer Platform at Microsoft) performed a series of IBM written benchmarks. The results of the benchmarks demonstrate a significant cost savings of running WebSphere on Windows on HP Blades as opposed to...
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A while back Matt Milner and I coauthored a whitepaper on the new WCF LOB Adapter SDK and the BizTalk Adapter Pack. It was published on microsoft.com a few weeks ago but I guess I missed it. You can download the paper from here . Here’s a brief...
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I will be speaking at Microsoft DevDays 09 in Hague on May 27-29. You can read more about the show here . I will be delivering a pre-conference workshop on the Azure Services Platform, and I’ll be presenting several individual sessions on WCF/WF 4.0,...
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My latest MSDN Magazine article entitled SOA Simplified: Service Virtualization with the Managed Services Engine hit the Web towards the end of last week. It focuses on simplifying large-scale SOA ecosystems by leveraging the concept of service virtualization...
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Microsoft just shipped the final episode in their three-round WCF marketing campaign found at http://www.microsoft.com/net/wcf/champ/ . It’s actually pretty entertaining while highlighting the key value propositions of WCF as a communication framework...
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Just a quick note to let everyone know that I’ll be speaking at VSLive! Las Vegas on June 10-11 on Windows Azure and Dublin. Join me at the Venetian where I’ll be doing a general overview session on cloud computing and Windows Azure on 6/10 in the...
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Microsoft recently posted a set of samples that show how to host WCF services as well as Silverlight clients in the Windows Azure fabric. They highlight some of the known issues and workarounds and will help you get started if you’re interested...
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