Blogs @ IRM

I’ve blogged earlier about the problems with Cassini and WCF on Windows 7 Beta (build 7000) and your best bet is to install IIS locally test your services in there. Now, there might be some problems getting IIS to read your service certificate and my colleague Tomas helped me get things running. I thought I might as well blog it here so that I got ...

Trying to run a WCF service in Cassini on your Windows 7 Beta (7000) machine and get this error? The remote server returned an unexpected response: (400) Bad Request. Unless you’re running your service with basic http binding or with security specifically set to None in your bindings, you will get this security-related error. This problem was ...

I’m trying to install/add IIS features to my Windows 7 beta build 7000 laptop. You got pretty fine grained control over these features in Windows 7, and it’s not easy to know what you really need. I need to run WCF services on my machine, so I’m turning most things on, including WCF Activation stuff: Then I’m adding these things that I think I ...

I've been blogging a few times now about using Unity with WCF, but how do you integration test your service in an easy way without? The way I (and many others) do integration tests for a WCF service is by setting up my own service host and starting the service from test init:     [TestClass]     public class ...

From the last days of playing around with and learning NHibernate it's quite clear to me that NHibernate is not a perfect match for a WCF solution. I'm perfectly aware of the fact that I'm still a total NH newbie, so please correct me or help me out if you can. From the moment I heard of Hibernate years ago I thought it was best made for stateful ...

This blog post is to continue on the one I wrote a few days ago about a new architecture for a WCF project we're trying out. My colleague Tomas and I sat down the whole day yesterday and dug into the topic and came out with a first rough code architecture that seems to work. Both of us knows WCF pretty well, but we're new to Unity and NHibernate ...

We're thinking about a new architecture for a set of pretty large WCF (and perhaps also REST) services that's going to be developed during the next year and perhaps you dear reader would like to comment! The services themselves are pretty straight forward, we're going to serve data from a huge SQL Server database which unfortunately is old and ...

Need to send soap headers from WCF (Service Reference) clients to older ASMX services? The ASMX service not handling the header properly? It may have to do with namespaces being set in the soap header XML in a way differently from what the ASMX service is expecting. So, how do you create and add the same type of headers, with the correct ...

Someone commented on an earlier blog post I did on REST, POX/POJO and WCF and the comment read: How about REST WCF bits from .NET 3.5 SP1? Is it possible now to let the user decide in which format he wants the response (xml or json) like MySpace API for example? The convention is to use a file like extension at the end of the resource to ...

I had a laugh when I saw James Kovacs' blog post abot Why Developers are Interested in REST: I'm doing some WCF work for a client, specifically around WS-Security. I stumbled upon the System.ServiceModel.MessageSecurityVersion class today. Its static properties alone should explain why developers are craving simpler technologies like REST... ...

Kirk Eveans wrote a blog post about Creating RESTful Services Using WCF, which gives you a good understanding of how to get started with REST on WCF. In his sample, Kirk has 2 methods in a REST interface:[ServiceContract] public interface IService { [OperationContract] [WebGet(UriTemplate = ''customers/{id}'')] Customer ...

The "modeling edition" of Service Factory was released yesterday on the Codeplex site: The Web Service Software Factory: Modeling Edition (also known as the Service Factory) is an integrated collection of resources designed to help you quickly and consistently build WCF and ASMX Web services that adhere to well-known architecture and ...

TcpTrace by Simon Fell is a great tool to trace your HTTP and SOAP calls with, until you begin using WCF and it starts complaining about you not going directly to the service, address filter mismatch and all that. It's quite easy to fix that though, just add an endpoint behavior to your client configuration and tell it your're running via ...