Before I continue pointing out SDK samples, why not take a look at a great end-to-end .NET Framework 3.0 demo first? It's been out there for a while and hence this isn't really news, but in case you've not seen it (or the latest revision of it) go check out DinnerNow. The demo covers WCF, Workflow, CardSpace and PowerShell. Awesome piece of work from our Evangelism team.
One of the "niche" features in WCF that deserves a lot more attention than it is getting is our P2P support. The NetPeerTcpBinding looks, from the developer perspective, mostly like any other binding. The main difference between P2P applications and "normal" client/server apps is, of course, that they are serverless. Hence, P2P apps are commonly based on message exchanges where every peer node in a mesh talks to everyone else in a broadcast fashion and that model favors (but...
There are a lot of blog entries that I'd write if they weren't already written. Stupid statement. No, really. One of the great qualities of the documentation that we built for WCF and WF and CardSpace is that it's completely legible and understandable :)
Since there's just a lot of stuff in the SDK docs and one easily gets lost in the forest, I'll point out a few of the conceptual docs and/or samples and may add the...
A bad sign for how much I’m coding these days is that I had a HDD crash three weeks ago and only restored Visual Studio into fully working condition with all my tools and stuff today. I’ve decided that that has to change otherwise I’ll get really rusty.
Picking up the thread from “Professor Indigo” Nicholas Allen, I’ve built a little program that illustrates an alternate handling strategy for poisonous messages that WCF throws...
I see an increasing number of research efforts going on to get people’s heads around the blogosphere and how to figure out what's relevant and what's not. 4-5 years back it was quite easy to do so, because there were so few of “us bloggers” and you could read pretty much all blogs that mattered in your area of interest withion an hour of your day, but now all of that has grown so much out of proportion that noise and...