Acadiana .NET User Group

WCF And WF Services In The .NET Framework 4.0 And “Dublin”

Sat, 25 Apr 2009 06:37:25 -0700

Microsoft released the details around numerous improvements that will ship in the Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0, specifically in the areas of Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and Windows Workflow Foundation (WF). Microsoft also debuted some extensions to Windows Server—code-named "Dublin"—that provide an improved hosting and management experience for WCF and WF applications.

The integration of WF and WCF in the .NET Framework 4.0 will make it simpler to develop distributed service-oriented apps. You will be able to build stateful workflow services using a completely declarative model that offers more flexibility and business agility.

The new hosting and management extensions introduced by "Dublin" complement these framework advances. The combination of advances in the framework itself and in the operational tools that support the framework means that the application server capability in Windows Server will make a significant leap forward.

In this article, I will explore some of the key new WCF and WF features in the .NET Framework 4.0 as well as the new application server capabilities provided by the "Dublin" extensions.

TDD | BDD | AOP = RBI Presentation Material

Thu, 29 Jan 2009 06:37:25 -0800

Ben Bingham has published his second series in his Real World Programming Presentation for all to enjoy and hopefully learn from. Please take this time to get this information to futher understand what the presentation is about and research the exciting possibilities with these programming paradigms.

Update to JSON Service Provider using ASP.NET MVC Beta

Tue, 30 Dec 2008 16:15:50 -0800

Recently Microsoft has updated the ASP.NET MVC to Beta status, and along with that came code changes. One of the code changes to the IModelBinder and how it interacts with the Parameter bindings broke what I wrote on the last post (utilizing ASP.NET MVC as a JSON Service Provider, and coding the entire web site on the client side).