Posted in Uncategorized, tagged concurrency, WCF on June 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This is the second in a series of posts about the AsyncPattern in WCF.
The previous post described the consequences of setting AsyncPattern = true on an OperationContractAttribute.
However, a question still remains: when and how to use AsyncPattern = true on the service-side?
When?
The WCF documentation states that
“Use an asynchronous approach in a service operation implementation if [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged concurrency, WCF on June 27, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The OperationContractAttribute is used, in WCF, to define operations on a service contract. This attribute contains the AsyncPattern property that can be used to implement or use services asynchronously.
AsyncPattern at the service side
Consider the following excerpt
1: [ServiceContract]
2: interface IService {
3: [OperationContract]
[...]
Posted in Uncategorized on June 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
[Via Mike Jones]: The Information Card Foundation was officially announced today. According to its press release
The Information Card Foundation will support and guide industry efforts to enable thedevelopment of an open, trusted and interoperable identity layer for the Internet thatmaximizes control over personal information by individuals. To do so, the InformationCard infrastructure will use existing [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on June 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The first event of the Application Lifecycle Management cycle, organized by Microsoft Portugal, is announced here.
Posted in Uncategorized on June 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Via “Lambda The Ultimate“: apparently, B. Stroustrup will publish a new book named “Programming – Principles and Practice Using C++”.
From the online preface, whose reading I recommend:
This is not the easiest book on beginning programming; it is not meant to be. I just aim for it to be the easiest book from which you can [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on June 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
From Philip Wadler’s blog: Add FP to the ACM curriculum.
This SIGPLAN Proposal has the details.
Update: See also The First SIGPLAN Workshop on Undergraduate Programming Language Curricula
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged concurrency, WCF on June 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »
In an older post, Nicholas Allen stated that an asynchronous delegate invocation on a WCF client channel object will block until the response is received from a service.
The only given explanation was:
The problem is that BeginInvoke knows about and only works with specific types of proxy objects, which do not include the proxy objects [...]
