WinFX
One of the frequently asked questions at the India Windows Communication Foundation Tour was how does WCF scale as compared to existing technologies, like ASMX? Will WCF services be more scalable than the ones we author today? What do we have to do for better scale? I thought of doing some very basic performance tests to get some data for these questions. The test was done to compare how ASP.NET 2.0 WebServices perform against WCF services. I did these tests on my machine which has 2GB RAM, 60GB...
[Original Post Date: 4th January 2005] I stumbled on this post by Matt, which is an excellent article that describes how to author a single service that can be consumed by client of .NET Remoting, WCF and ASMX. Must Read...
[Original Post Date: 2nd January 2005] With WCF, state management in services get more capabilities than just Singleton and PerCall approaches. Two new modes have been introduced that take state management to the next level. PerSession and Shareable modes allow for private sessions and shared sessions across specific clients respectively. I have authored the article, Sharing State across Clients in Windows Communication Foundation, which attempts to help understand these modes of state management...
[Original Post Date: 26th December 2005] I have updated the WinFX Beta 1 based WCF Tour India demos for WinFX November 2005 CTP. You can download them from here...
[Original Post Date: 18th December 2005] Service orientation is a concept and a way of thinking on how to design distributed systems. Technologies like Windows Communication Foundation implement these concepts and make them real. In order to understand the power of such technologies, its imperative we understand SO. I have attempted to help understand this abstract concept in an article titled Service Orientation and Home Delivery of Pizza that you can read here...
[Original Post Date: 23rd November 2005] I just concluded the Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) India Tour after two weeks in 4 cities. Download: Presentations from here Demos (based upon Indigo Beta 1 and VS 2005 Beta 2) from here...
[Original Post Date: 21st November 2005] The WinFX November CTP has been released and it works with VS 2005 RTM release. Download the various components: WinFX Runtime Components - http://www.microsoft.com/do... WinFX SDK - http://www.microsoft.com/do... Visual Studio Extensions for WinFX - http://www.microsoft.com/do...
[Original Post Date: 9th November 2005] Windows Communication Foundation, formerly codenamed Indigo, is the future of Microsoft distributed computing platform. And to take it to the next level in India, we are having Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) Tour across the month of November. The dates are as below: City Date Bangalore 10th November Pune 15th November Chennai 17th November Hyderabad 22nd November In this tour, we will enable the attendee to understand WCF, its relation with service...