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One of the very difficult to solve problems in .NET client & web service solutions is sharing custom objects between the web service and the client. Here's the scenario. You have a business layer with some serializable objects. Let's say the namespace is "MyLovelyBAL" and the object is "MyLovelyObject...

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Michele Leroux Bustamante will be doing a 15 (fifteen!!) part web cast series on Windows Communication Foundation starting this month. Michele is a web services guru who has written Learning WCF and knows this stuff inside and out!...

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WCF is so hip, even water is getting in on the act! (sorry, just couldn't resist :-) ) Posted from BLInk!

Ahh, I'm a day late and a dollar short. Yesterday the PAG Team announced Service BAT - Service Baseline Architecture Toolkit - that will guide and help you implement WCF and ASMX services. They have had a bunch of plumbers helping them out including Christian Weyer and Pablo Cibraro. I can't wait to...

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Everything I thought I knew about how to interop messages between WCF and WSE3.0 went down the toilet with the newest bits of WCF. Thanks to some serious counseling from William Tay this morning (who has been diving deep with WCF for a long time and has also kept up with the changes that affect all forms...

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The January CTP install notes recommend installing the WinFX components before VS2005, but according to Michele Leroux Bustamante, who has done a LOT of work with WCF, if you are working with the newer (non go-live) February CTP release, it's okay to install all of theWinFX ontop of VS2005. This is great...

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It seems like just yesterday that I was asking around about how Atlas interacts with WS-Security and other WS* compliant web services created using tools like WSE or WCF. And woudntchaknowit! The Atlas version that was released just yesterday has WCF extensions built right in for seamless communication...

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William Tay (aka Softwaremaker ), a WCF wizard, has an article on TheServerSide.Net which is a great intro to programming with WCF. Don't Forget: www.acehaid.org...

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I'm looking at Rod Paddock's editorial in the current CoDe Mag issue. This is the future tehcnologies issue wiht articles on WPF, LinQ and Ajax. In the editorial he says that there is going to be a 6 article series on WCF starting with the next issue. I'm really looking forward to this. Especially considering...

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The January CTP of WinFX (which includes WCF) is available on MSDN online. Note some good advice on installation from Charles Petzold. WCF and it's pal Windows Workflow Foundation were anointed with GoLive licenses. The runtimes associated with these can be downloaded here . WCF gets a home on the web...

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