Thursday, August 23, 2007 - Posts

• Signalling “End Of Session”

  When authoring a session-ful channel, it’s important to signal “end of session” correctly so that the runtime (or any other user of the channel) knows when to stop reading messages, and to start shutting down his side of the conversation (with CloseOutputSession and/or channel.Close). A null Message/RequestContext signals end-of-session to the caller. In particular, depending [...] Read More... Posted Thursday, August 23, 2007 3:30 PM from kennyw.com » Indigo | 0 Comments Filed under: Indigo

• WebHttpBehavior vs WebScriptBehavior

  If you want to use the [WebGet]/[WebInvoke] programming model in WCF, you need an endpoint with the right binding and the right endpoint behavior. The binding is the out-of-the-box WebHttpBinding. The endpoint behavior can be either WebHttpBehavior or WebScriptEnablingBehavior. What's the difference between the two? The WebHttpBehavior is a general-purpose behavior that supports UriTemplate dispatch and POX/JSON/byte stream formats on the wire. Use it for general purpose HTTP/REST/Web-Style services. The WebScriptEnablingBehavior is a "profile" of the WebHttpBehavior functionality designed specifically for interop with ASP.NET AJAX clients. It adds in some AJAX-isms like the ability to automatically generate ASP.NET AJAX client proxies. Read More... Posted Thursday, August 23, 2007 12:29 PM from Brain.Save(): blog | 0 Comments Filed under: Blog

• Orcas Beta 2 Samples

  When Orcas Beta 2 was released, all of the links for samples were still pointing to the Beta 1 SDK download for a few weeks. That's evidently changed recently as there is now a download available for the Orcas Beta 2 SDK samples . Read More... Posted Thursday, August 23, 2007 8:00 AM from Nicholas Allen's Indigo Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: Indigo, Announcements