Introduction In My previous article “Creating Web feeds with WCF†, I have explained about building a web feed with WCF. This post explains how to build a simple WCF service that exposes the feed data using both RSS and Atom. We are using both formats to emphasize the separation in WCF between the data [SyndicationFeed] and the formatting [SyndicationFeedFormatter].We can write the methods to...
Creating Web feeds with WCF
Introduction A feed on the web is data format where users can read content from different web sites by subscribing using client applications. Building and exposing a web feed is not a new idea but in this post we are going to use WCF to build the feeds.WCF allows you to create feeds for both Atom1 and RSS2 standards. Building a Feed with WCF The following are two important features in WCF...
ASP.NET Website vs Web Application project
Introduction This post explains about two project types in Visual studio ie Website and Web Application that we use to build the ASP.NET Applications and the fundamental differences between the two project types.. Background Website project type was introduced in the VS 2005 and Web Application model introduced in VS 2003. Website project type is based on folder structure and does not require a...
MVVM Pattern for WPF Applications
Introduction Model-View-ViewModel [MVVM] is a design pattern for developing the UI Applications. It is a variation of MVC and MVP. MVP[Model-View-Presenter] which has been using for years to develop UI platforms. Bit about MVP View is what you see on the screen.Model displays the data and Presenter hooks the two elements together.You can read more about this pattern in August 2006 Design Patterns...
Unit Testing with VS 2008 Team edition
Introduction Unit tests allows the developers and testers to check the logical errors in the methods of classes in C# and VB.NET Projects.Unit test can be created once and can be run every time that source code changes.Unit test cases make sure that no bugs are introduced when you write the new code. This post speaks about Unit Test Framework that introduced in VS 2008 Team Suite for developers...
Microsoft “Oslo†Features
Microsoft’s “Oslo†is a platform for building the data-driven applications. This post explains about “Oslo†platform concepts and technologies required to implement those concepts.
Oslo contains three elements
A set of languages called “Mâ€[MSchema,MGrammar and MGraph]
Data manipulation tool called “Quadrantâ€
A repository for data store
Microsoft Dublin Features
Introduction
Microsoft new extensions to the windows server code named “Dublin†which provides a hosting environment for both WCF and WF applications. Dublin is set of service management extensions built on top of IIS/WAS that will ship with windows server.
Source: MSDN
WCF Features in .NET Framework 4.0
Introduction
WCF providing a way to define service contracts and to configure endpoint definitions using the declarative XAML in .NET Framework 4.0.
Consider the WCF service contract definition:
WCF and REST
Introduction WCF is the Microsoft framework for building applications that communicate over network using different protocols. WCF allows the developers to build distributed applications using SOAP. WCF also had the ability to expose and consume REST services.This post explains how to build REST service using WCF. Note: To build REST Service new infrastructure was added to WCF in .NET Framework 3...
REST Overview
Introduction
REST stands for Representational State Transfer,is an architectural style where you can build the software system in which clients(user agents) can make requests to the services[end points]. REST one of the way to implement the client\server architectural style. REST can be used to build software applications in which clients can make requests of services.