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New Dime Cast: Migrating from .asmx web services to WCF web services
New DimeCast screencast walks through migrating an old ASMX web service over to a modern WCF web service, covering the why and the how.
2008.12.30Read →Sometimes you just have to burn one
Why I moved my blog's RSS feed to FeedBurner: real subscriber stats, less bandwidth strain, and a feed URL that survives moving your blog.
2008.12.30Read →Beginning Programming Audio: ASIO4ALL Is Picky
Fixing crackly MIDI audio latency in NAudio projects with ASIO4ALL, and the odd fix: closing any browser tab playing YouTube in the background.
2008.12.29Read →Prism Drop 8 Breaking Changes
Prism Drop 8 renames CompositeWpfEvent to CompositePresentationEvent and replaces ModuleCatalog.Groups.Add with a simpler AddModule call.
2008.12.23Read →Intro to WCF Screen Cast Now Available
A new screencast on DimeCasts.net walking through the ABCs of WCF and showing, step by step, how to build and run your very first WCF service.
2008.12.16Read →Speaking at the Twin Cities Code Camp 2009
Speaking on Testing With Mocks at Twin Cities Code Camp 2009 - how mocks let you test interactions and state without building full object graphs.
2008.12.10Read →Twin Cities Give Camp – April 26th and 27th 2009
Twin Cities Give Camp is set for April 26-27, 2009, and we're lining up charities focused on kids, the disabled, elderly, and animals.
2008.12.05Read →
How To: REST Services in WCF 3.5 Part 2 – The POST
Part 2 of the WCF REST series: adding a POST endpoint with WebInvokeAttribute and testing it with Fiddler, using a silly insult service as the demo.
2008.12.04Read →Dime Cast on RESTful WCF
A 10-minute screencast on DimeCasts.net walks through building a WebGet-based RESTful WCF service - part 1 of a series on WCF REST.
2008.12.02Read →SVCUtil & VS2008
Correcting myself: Visual Studio 2008 doesn't actually use SvcUtil under the hood for service references - it has its own internal proxy generator.
2008.12.02Read →Technical Timeout 1
Introducing Technical Timeout: a short break from tech talk for a laugh, starting with the Terry Tate Office Linebacker video (headphones on, PG-13).
2008.11.25Read →Store Locator – Moved to Codeplex
My ASP.NET Store Locator project outgrew its old home, so I moved the source and ongoing development over to CodePlex to manage it more effectively.
2008.11.23Read →