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The "Ultra Intuitive" WCF Test Client

The "Ultra Intuitive" WCF Test Client

Did you know that Visual Studio includes a WCF Test Client? No? It’s very useful for testing out various services, especially SOAP ones. RESTful services are much easier to test as you just need a browser, but SOAP requires some sort of client. Browse to the following path (note,

Major Ruby OData Update v0.1.0

It’s here! I’m happy to announce a major release of ruby_odata, v0.1.0. There are many enhancements found in this release so let’s dig in and see what’s new. There is one thing that we need to get out of the way first, a

Ruby OData Update v0.0.10

I’m happy to announce that today, ruby_odata has continued to move forward by adding additional features and fixing bugs. I skipped an update for v0.0.9, so let’s revisit what was added/fixed back then. The major change was support for self-signed SSL certificates. That addition

Ruby OData Update v0.0.8

It has been WAY too long since an update of ruby_odata was released. I’m happy to announce that version 0.0.8 was released today. The biggest change, thanks to J.D. Mullin, is support for Basic HTTP Authentication. It’s an awesome enhancement and very easy to

Data Access and Silverlight 4

You’ve decided to create a new business application (meaning some n-tier application) using Silverlight as the frontend. Is Silverlight the best choice? That’s a debate for another post… Anyway, now it comes to deciding on a data access strategy, which one do you choose? Well this is one

Ruby OData Update v0.0.7

I just wanted to give an update on the ruby_odata progress. If you don’t know about ruby_odata or want a refresher, I blogged about it a few weeks ago. Anyway, I just released a new version of the gem, v0.0.7. With this new version, you

Introducing a Ruby OData Client Library

Ever since the ADO.NET team started development on Astoria (pre-release), I have loved the concept. Since its release (it was called ADO.NET Data Services and is now WCF Data Services), I’ve used it a ton (you may remember the example from this post). Back at MIX10, Microsoft

ASP.NET 4.0 AJAX - Preview 4 - Client Templates

ASP.NET 4.0 AJAX - Preview 4 - Client Templates

A little over a month ago, Microsoft released the fourth preview of ASP.NET 4.0 AJAX. This is the new release of the Microsoft AJAX Framework that will be released with ASP.NET 4.0. We’re getting closer to the RTM release of .NET 4.0 (hopefully later

ASP.NET AJAX Page Methods

If you’ve read things of mine, such as my Wrox Blox Hands On ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit, or posts on the ASP.NET Forums, you may have noticed I talk about using ASP.NET AJAX Page Methods lots of the time. Lots of developers using ASP.NET AJAX

Excellent Reading Material - MSMQ, WCF, and IIS

If you are working with a WCF service, an MSMQ binding, and hosting in IIS, there are three wonderful articles by Tom Hollander that you should check out. The series is entitled “MSMQ, WCF and IIS: Getting them to play nice”, here are the three links: * MSMQ, WCF and IIS:

ObjectDataSource, SOA Style

It’s been entirely too long since my last post, and with the olympics in full swing, we’ll go with a volleyball theme for this post. BUMP So here’s the scenario. After really digging your teeth into ASP.NET 2.0 and playing around wiih all the cool

Metadata Exchange Using SvcUtil: A Cautionary Tale

One of the projects that I’ve been working on the past week is a conversion project that involves a web site that has a tightly coupled business logic layer. The goal of the project is to re-engineer the site so that the business logic and corresponding data access tiers