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Just to make sure everything was as easy as it looked in Fiddler – I wrote a quick and dirty piece of throwaway code to see if I could programmatically login to XM and play a stream of music with Windows Media Player. It was ugly, but … public void Can_Start_Media_Payer_With_Xm_Stream...

Before talking about the new model for queued transports that we've added to WCF 4.0, let's first look at the traditional transacted receive pattern. Start a transaction. This can be relatively cheap although we'll have to pay more for the...

First new and notable with the new Graffiti blog. WCF/Cloud Services Aaron has his latest in his series of WCF screencasts , this time showing how to host WCF services within traditional Windows services Aaron also has a geekSpeak webcast on Cloud Services...

My copy of RESTful .NET arrived today. In Jon's typical style, he dives right into the meat of the WCF 3.5 REST programming model and doesn't waste much time re-covering the basics. This is a great WCF-specific companion to O'Reilly's...

Following are few key links to BizTalk RFID Resources Sites: http://www.microsoft.com/rfid http://www.microsoft.com/biztalk/en/us/rfid-mobile.aspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb749758.aspx Microsoft Blogs: http://blogs.msdn.com/sudhir/ http...

Time for another screencast in the WCF screencast series. In this one you'll learn how to call services asynchronously with WCF in order to avoid tying up your main application thread for extended durations. You'll see how to configure your service...

DevelopMentor UK ran a one day post PDC event on Friday at the Microsoft Offices in London. Myself and Dominick covered WF 4.0, Dublin, Geneva, Azure and Oslo You can find the materials and demos here Read More...

We’ve been experimenting with calling ASMX web services from orchestrations without having to add a web reference (for the SOAP adapter) or use the generated items (for the R2 WCF adapter). The idea, in short, is to achieve increased decoupling between...