May 2006 - Posts

posted Wednesday, May 31, 2006 1:59 PM by martin :: (Comments Off)

WCF ChannelDispatchers in the ServiceHost

I was reading about Channels in WCF, from the nice set of documents here.  An extremely brief summary is as follows... A binding is a stack of BindingElements.  The bottom-most one deals with messages in the form that the transport understands Read More
posted Friday, May 26, 2006 5:04 AM by martin :: 1 Comments

Updating the Federated Security Sample for WCF Beta 2

The Feb CTP of WCF included a federated security sample; I posted a modified version of it that clarified a few things I was originally confused about.  My modified sample stops working now that we have Beta 2 of WinFX, so I've updated it. My modified Read More
posted Thursday, May 25, 2006 2:13 PM by martin :: 1 Comments

Updated XPathViewer sample for WinFX Beta 2

The move from Feb CTP to Beta 2 of WinFX had just one direct impact on this sample: the ability to programmatically change a binding, once that binding has been used, was removed.  The required behaviour is still easily achieved; the sample now creates Read More
posted Monday, May 15, 2006 12:09 PM by martin :: (Comments Off)

WPF, XmlDataProvider and Data Binding

I've never sat down to learn XPath properly, which means that whenever I need to write an XPath expression, it's a matter of trial-and-error.  Data binding to XML in WPF makes use of XPath, and although there are some useful tools around to help Read More
posted Thursday, May 04, 2006 7:11 AM by martin :: (Comments Off)

On The Road

It's that time of year when we do the MSDN Technical Roadshow.  The first run was in Birmingham on the 2nd/3rd of May.  The remaining dates are listed here, but if you haven't registered yet I think you might be too late :-( I'll be talking Read More