July 2006 - Posts

posted Wednesday, July 19, 2006 8:02 AM by martin :: 1 Comments

SSL Bindings with Netsh.exe

Following on from my last post about netsh.exe, this one becomes important when you want a WCF service to listen at an https endpoint.  All this assumes you're running on Windows Vista.  Let's say you want to listen at... https://localhost:8888/MyService Read More
posted Wednesday, July 19, 2006 2:55 AM by martin :: 3 Comments

URLs, ACLs and netsh.exe

Running a WCF service with an http endpoint on Windows Vista, when you open your service host (non-IIS) you might see an exception something like this... "The ChannelDispatcher at '<url>' with contract(s) "<contract>" is unable to open its Read More
posted Monday, July 17, 2006 6:56 AM by martin :: (Comments Off)

Testing

Just trying out a new tool for posting to my blog.  Let's see if it can handle images properly... How does that look? Read More
posted Monday, July 17, 2006 6:48 AM by martin :: (Comments Off)

WCF Service Authorization

This is a short journey through the extensibility of WCF authorization.  Assume that I want to implement support for some new kind of security token, or just implement a different kind of authorization based on existing tokens.  (Actually, when Read More
posted Thursday, July 13, 2006 4:54 AM by martin :: (Comments Off)

What's Next for Web Developers

That was the name of an event held at Microsoft's UK campus yesterday.  I did a talk in the morning.  The last session of the day was about Expression Web Designer, and it was fantastic.  Ok, I've never really used any competing products, Read More