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Enabling WCF services within IIS on Windows Vista

Posted December 11th @ 4:17 pm by aaron

If you installed IIS on Windows Vista after you installed .NET 3.0, like I did, you’ll notice that any references to the .svc file will fail, typically with a 404 not found. It’s easy to see that the .svc mappings aren’t installed, but without consulting some documentation it’s not abundantly clear how to install them. […]

URI “Purity”

Posted August 21st @ 11:14 pm by aaron

In my article on REST + WCF, I mentioned something I called “URI Purity”:
“URI purity”, as I define it, refers to the degree with which implementation details “leak” into the URI of a resource. (read more…)
Interesting that I come across this post tonight by Jon Flanders [via] where he created an HttpModule to rewrite the […]

Creating RESTful Web Services with WCF 3.5

Posted August 21st @ 2:43 pm by aaron

My inaugural article titled “Creating RESTful Web Services with Windows Communication Foundation” is up at developer.com. Go give it a read, if you dare! I recently spent quite a while digging into the REST implementation in WCF 3.5 (Beta 2): WebGet/WebInvoke, WebOperationContext, WebServiceHost and their ilk. It’s some pretty interesting stuff.
Feel free to make […]

A humble WCF feature request (or four)

Posted July 16th @ 1:43 am by aaron

Since Steve Maine’s excellent and informative blog appears to be down tonight, I’m posting my request here for all to see.  I’d like to see two things for WCF in .NET 3.5.
First is response message encoding specified per service operation.  If we’re really creating a RESTful service, then it makes sense to be able to […]

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