Thursday morning started pretty well the same as every weekday. I’m sure you know how it goes; you go through the motions to get yourself prepared for the day, shower, dress, eat breakfast and so on. On my way out the door I get an SMS – “Janet (not her […]
Monthly archives: August 2010
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Just when you thought it was safe to talk about mobile phones again – the hyper-marketing(tm) machine (a.k.a the Microsoft Marketing department) is back and this time they’re trumpeting the Windows Phone 7 (is it just me, or is that a stupid name?). Whilst Microsoft is no stranger to the […]
Well, it is about that time of the year when TechEd Australia kicks off; this year it is being held on the Gold Coast in Queensland. As usual the location doesn’t vary much, TechEd has alternated between Sydney and the Gold Coast over the past half decade, which leaves me […]
Introduction Now if you are like me, you’ve probably had some interest in POCO (plain old CLR objects) objects for at least some time. They are an invaluable tool in the distributed systems and service oriented architecture areas, but up until now they’ve been inaccessible for those designs. In a […]
Recently I answered a question on Stack Overflow where someone was interested in mapping a character to an Enum value. Obviously this isn’t something naturally possible with Enums, so I proposed the following solution. I’ve previously blogged about a generic approach to working with Strings and Enums here. If we […]
Hi Everyone, Well, I said I’d do it, and I will be – I’ve spent several hours putting together a sample DB and solution which demonstrates how to support Entity Framework (v4) POCO objects serialized in and out of WCF Services. In a word, it’s going to be a lengthy […]
You might find this information handy if you work with Windows Services, and wish to grant some basic permissions to user accounts. In my scenario, I wanted to be able to list the status of several key Windows Services used in my overall architecture (for a diagnostic website/control panel) and […]
Someone kindly posted this excellent flowchart in Stack Overflow which helps to identify the most appropriate WCF Service bindings to use in a solution. There’s another version located here: http://architectopia.blogspot.com/2008/01/wcf-binding-decision-chart.html Not a bad little reference chart!