Monthly Archives: December 2008

Intro to WCF Screen Cast Now Available

I have a new Screen cast available on  DimeCasts.net. It is entitled “Introduction to WCF: Creating your first Service“. In this episode we will take a look at how to create your first WCF service. We will first walk you though the ABCs of what a WCF service is, we will then show you step…

Speaking at the Twin Cities Code Camp 2009

I will be speaking at the Twin Cities Code Camp 2009. The topic I will be presenting is: “Testing With Mocks” Abstract: Test this, test that, no problem. But what about when we need to start building full object graphs into our test in order to test an interaction or state? Yeah, Houston, we have…

Twin Cities Give Camp – April 26th and 27th 2009

The Twin Cities Give Camp is set. The date of the camp is April 26th and April 27th. If you are in the Twin Cities area (Minneapolis/St Paul, MN) please consider helping out the cause. We need sponsors, and volunteers. At this time we’re working on securing our charities. If you have a charity that…

How To: REST Services in WCF 3.5 Part 2 – The POST

This post is part of a series. Part 1 Part 2 (this post)   Implementing a POST HTTP Verb Call In this post we’re going to cover what it takes to implement a PUT into our REST Service that we defined in Part 1 of this series. First of all, what is the POST HTTP…

SVCUtil & VS2008

After some research into a Service Reference problem I was having with Silverlight I came to find out (but not officially) that VS2008 DOES NOT use SvcUtil under the hood to get its service reference. It uses its own internal implementation of a proxy generation tool. I’ll have to confirm this conclusion with some authority/book/etc,…