Jeff W. Barnes

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WCF 3.5: Syndication Feeds
In .NET 3.0, WCF did not have any built-in support for syndication feeds, such as RSS and ATOM. As a result, it was necessary to roll your own solution anytime you wanted to render a syndication feed from your service. While this wasn't an incredibly...
Alabama Code Camp Presentations
I decided to take a couple of nights to catch up on sleep. So, I'm a little late about posting a follow up about code camp. At any rate, another code camp has come and gone. In my opinion, the event was enormously successful. It appeared to be one...
WCF 3.5: WebInvoke Attribute
A while back, I posted about the WebGet Attribute. Unfortunately, I never got around to writing about its rather important sibling: WebInvoke Attribute. While WebGet is completely dedicated to mapping a service operation to an HTTP GET, WebInvoke fills...
Posted: Nov 28 2007, 10:47 PM by jeff.barnes | with 1 comment(s)
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How To AJAX Enable a WCF Service
Recently, a friend of mine was picking my brain about the necessary steps for setting up a WCF service that can be invoked from an AJAX client-side script. Prior to .NET 3.5, this wasn't actually supported by ASP.NET AJAX. It was only possible to...
Posted: Nov 19 2007, 10:17 PM by jeff.barnes | with 2 comment(s)
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BUG.NET Meeting on Nov 13th
The November meeting of the Birmingham .NET User Group will be Tuesday, November 13th. The meeting will begin at 6:30PM at New Horizons . I will be presenting a WCF presentation entitled "WCF and the Programmable Web". If you were at my code...
Code Camp Demos
Well, I think it was another successful Code Camp . Everything seemed to go very smoothly, and I heard several attendees comment on how much they liked the venue. I can't speak for anyone else, but I enjoyed myself. It was great to get together with...
Awarded Microsoft MVP
Yesterday, I was notified that I have been awarded as a Microsoft MVP for 2008! This is a significant privilege and I feel very honored to have even been considered. My MVP award is for the category of Windows Server System - Connected System Developer...
Posted: Oct 02 2007, 08:13 AM by jeff.barnes | with 7 comment(s)
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WCF: Don't Rely On Default Configuration Values
Never rely on the default values for your service configuration. This is something that seems to bite a lot of developers that are new to WCF. The large majority of the settings default to predetermined values intended to help create a more secure "out...
Posted: Sep 27 2007, 11:15 PM by jeff.barnes | with no comments
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VS2008: Add Service Reference Is Greatly Improved
If you have worked much with WCF in the Visual Studio 2005 environment, you are probably aware of the Add Service Reference option in the context menu when a project is right clicked in Solution Explorer. When the menu option is clicked, it launches the...
Posted: Sep 18 2007, 01:06 AM by jeff.barnes | with no comments
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WCF 3.5: Hosting Services for WebGet
In my last post , I provided an overview of using the new WebGet attribute to map an HTTP GET operation to a specific method. However, I didn't cover the the necessities for hosting a service that uses this functionality. If you intend to expose multiple...
Posted: Sep 13 2007, 04:00 AM by jeff.barnes | with 5 comment(s)
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