Indigo/WCF breaking changes for the February CTP
The fabulous Ed Pinto has blogged about out breaking changes for the February CTP. Exhaustive list here.
Recent posts
WCF and Partial Trust
Just read this on Robert Hurlbut's blog (via Dominick, source is Doug)
As Doug indicates, the issue here is not "we don't want to do it", but that we need to ship.
The problem is that partial trust is incredibly hard (and very time consuming) to test for a communication platform that is supposed to have rock solid security (no paradoxon here) and shall perform well. It's just as hard to provide...
The case of the missing “durable messaging” feature
I just got a comment from Oran about the lack of durable messaging in WCF and the need for a respective extensibility point. Well... the thing is: Durable messaging is there; use the MSMQ bindings. One of the obvious "problems" with durable messaging that's only based on WS-ReliableMessaging is that that spec (intentionally) does not make any assertions about the behavior of the respective endpoints.
There is no rule saying: "the received message MUST be written do disk". WS-ReliableMessaging...
MIX’06
I am spending my first week at Redmond with the WCF team. All new, all interesting, and a lot to learn.
Amongst the little things I learned is that I'll be speaking at MIX06 with Doug Purdy in a joint session on REST, POX, RSS, AJAX, Web2.0, Media Convergence, and general black magic with WCF/Indigo. That'll be fun. Guess what the demo will be! Yep, right .... shhhh! don't tell anyone.
MDC 2006, Cairo – Slides and Scribbles
Dear MDC Attendees! It was a great pleasure to talk for and directly to so many of you and it was very interesting to learn about the very many interesting projects in which you are using our technologies.
Below you can download my scribbles from the first presentation in HTML format (they are likely “out of context” for everyone not attending the session). The PowerPoint presentations are available at http://windowscommunication.net