.NET 3.0 links

We're all excited that .NET 3.0 is here. Here are a few links and comments to help you out...

If you have previous versions of .NET 3.0, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE do yourself and your friends a huge favor and run the Pre-released Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 Uninstall Tool.

Once you've installed, the RTM link to .NET 3.0 is: here

UPDATE: 11/30/2006 : 3:11pm
Apparently i'm not the only one happy about .NET 3.0 shipping.  Aaron Skonnard just posted a link of Doug and Don dancing and singing on channel 9

jk

WSSF for WCF RC1

For those who missed Aaron Skonnard's post on this today, the PAG team just released the new version of the Web Service Software Factory for WCF RC1. This is the same WSSF that I was referring to on Day 2. This is just the WCF version and not the ASMX version.

jk

Building Connected Systems - Day 1

Day 1 was good. There are only 16 people in the class (2 Microsofties, and 2 former Microsofties, myself included) which is nice for personal attention and discussion. Today we reviewed SO, Web Services and the existing technology stack (ASMX 2.0, WSE 3.0). A lot of it was just tablesetting and laying the justification groundwork for WCF, WF and BizTalk. Near the end of the day we started on some BizTalk 2006, which will flow into tomorrow (about 1 hour left of the lab). Aaron Skonnard was our instructor. I love listening to people who are passionate and knowledgable about a topic. Some of the more intresting comments were:

• ".Net Remoting has the least optimistic future of the communication models (ASMX, WSE, Enterprise Services, Remoting & MSMQ)"


• It would be really interesting to see a WCF Channel for SQL Service Broker


• The REST vs. SOAP debate: one thing in favor of SOAP is the existing tools (which is likely why Google chose SOAP for their SOAP Search API and not REST


• Contract first vs. Code first for web services; typically collaberation drives contract first and smaller projects tend to migrate toward code first

I'm really looking forward to Day 2 which will cover WCF.

Early bedtime tonight! :)

jk

Twin Cities Code Camp - Nov 11, 2006

The inaugural Twin Cities Code Camp will be held Nov 11, 2006. Check out the sessions here.

As of this post, 3 other Magenicons will be presenting (Jason Bock, Michael Dunn and Rocky Lhotka). I will be doing a session on using the security features of Indigo Windows Communication Foundation (WCF). Best of all, it's FREE!!!!!! Hope to see y'all there!

jk

Twin Cities Code Camp

The Twin Cities Code Camp will be Nov 11, 2006. Check out the sessions here.

I will be presenting a session on using the security features of WCF.

come one, come all!

jk

WCF/Indigo - Change to .svc file format for .Net 3.0

after installing the .Net 3.0 (winfx) components, my Indigo service stopped compiling -- i was getting a System.Web.HttpParseException on my Service.svc file...

after much hunting around for 'HttpParseException', I stumbled upon the answer searching for 'Service directive':

http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=414261&SiteID=1
-- and --
http://blogs.msdn.com/madhuponduru/archive/2006/02/22/537627.aspx

Basically, change "Service" to "ServiceHost" and change "class=MyFancyIndigoService" to "Service=MyFancyIndigoService"