Tag Archives: WCF

Wireshark Rocks

I love Wire­shark. It’s a net­work pro­to­col ana­lyzer that has saved me count­less hours over the last year or so in debug­ging seri­al­iza­tion and HTTP issues on a vari­ety of projects. Today’s suc­cess story comes cour­tesy of Sil­verlight, WCF and the haz­ards of leav­ing slashes off the end of a URL. I’m work­ing on a project

Silverlight Security Exceptions With WCF Services

From the pub­lic ser­vice announce­ment depart­ment, this is an issue I recently strug­gled with and since I didn’t find much help on the web, I thought I’d con­tribute. If you’re try­ing to hit WCF ser­vices (ours are REST­ful but I’m pretty sure this hap­pens on reg­u­lar ser­vices as well), you may get weird secu­rity excep­tions

WCF, Ninject and REST

On my cur­rent project, we’re using WCF and REST­ful ser­vices to pro­vide data to a Sil­verlight appli­ca­tion. We have our own IOC/DI frame­work but we’re also toy­ing with Nin­ject in that capac­ity and it was my job this week to hook it up to the ser­vice layer. I came across Heinrich’s descrip­tion of the process

One Time Setup For WCF and Virtual Directories On Vista

This is mostly for my own ref­er­ence but maybe some­one will run across it and it will keep them from hav­ing to rein­stall IIS like I just had to. Step 1: Fol­low steps 1–5 here pay­ing spe­cific atten­tion to the link in step 2. In step 5, I only did port 80 since I’m not inter­ested