Tim Ewald’s recent talk at Vermont.NET got me fired up about contract first again. Read more here…

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I have a self-hosted service which I am calling through it’s proxy in a client app.

When the service has multiple endpoints, svcutil adds “ConfigurationName” properties to the endpoints in the config file. With a single endpoint, that parameter is not necessary.

When instantiating the service via the proxy, I was following a single endpoint example and forgot to indicate *which* endpoint or configuration I wanted. Thus my code:

ServiceProxy myproxy=new ServiceProxy();

gave me an error when it hit the proxy’s constructor and I was given the following exception:

could not find endpoint element that references contractType [whatever my contract name is]

Oddly, if I found that if I removed ConfigurationNames from the config, the app will actually run and somehow randomly selected from the multiple endpoints.

The exception message led me on a very wild goosechase. But luckily, Softwaremaker, who is quite the Indigo guru already, asked me a key question: “how are you instatiating the proxy?”

Since all of this stuff is so new, I am placing this mistake out on Google for the next person who makes this mistake.

Don’t Forget: www.acehaid.org

I’m not kidding.

By changing a WCF binding from basicHttpBinding to wsHttpBinding, bingo bammo magic right before my very eyes! My messages were encrypted. I did nothing else.

Here’s where I got my inspiration…thanks Ami.

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As I am tightening up my Indigo demos for TechEd South Africa, I am going over a bunch of posts by Michele Leroux Bustamante which is helping me sort out “just getting it to run” vs. “writing services properly”. [read more …]

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I need to stamp this onto my brain so that it flows from my tongue as readily and thoughtlessly* as the word “Indigo”:

“Secure, Reliable, Transacted Web Services”

*thoughtlessly as in: I don’t have to stop and think “what is that phrase again?”, it’s just there…

My key take-aways from Clemens Vasters’ introduction to Indigo article [read more…]

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Michele Leroux Bustamante is posting a lot of useful how-tos on Indigo Check out www.dasblonde.net.

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… One great resource is Omri Gazitt’s weblog post Porting from Beta1 to Beta2. This helped me resolve most of the problems that I was having with changed attribute names. Omri is on the Indigo team at Microsoft and I will be taking a look at his presentation decks from PDC this weekend.

There was one holdover that was still lingering in my config file though, the securityMode attribute in the [read more…]

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