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I really love this new feature of VS2008 that allows you to cleanup the usings section of C# files (and I’ve been always missing this from Eclipse) but I was a bit disappointed when I found there is no choice to execute automatically before every save...

REST/POX client with WCF 3.5

Here are some Java tips for making your code more beautiful, understandable, reliable and maintable. They are in no particular order. Suppose your code will be read by somebody else. Even if you are working on a project on your own, it’s worth commenting...

If you have to generate xml in ruby I suggest take a look at builder gems. It has really little overhead to generate xml. Take a look to this example: require 'Builder' xm=Builder::XmlMarkup.new( :target => $stdout , :indent => 2 ) xm.instruct! xm...

Prime generator with LINQ

In the last weeks I faced a real world example of an ASMX to WCF migration. The existing services has been relying in many of the features available in ASMX, and a complete rewrite would not be an option. Kenny Wolf describes in a post how to reuse...

The most remarkable thing in WCF is its extensibility. The Indigo team did a really great work providing hooks almost everywhere, that allows to customize all behaviors in every step of the communication framework. In this example I created a client...

Acquiring UserName credentials for WCF

Web Service Software Factory (December 2006) released

In the last months I’ve been working with a really great team in the Service Factory project at Microsoft. This is a very ambitious project and in the first release you will find a collection of tools to develop web services using the architecture...