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Some nice apps…
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…There are a few rare reasons why you'd want to fake this, but they mainly involve transmitting over specially secured networks. — Security capabilities are found by querying the channel stack with GetProperty for an instance of ISecurityCapabilities.
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…The patterns & practices team at Microsoft has put together their first release of guidance for WCF security. They've included how-to guides and videos that walk you through a number of security tasks, such as working with certificates and configuring role providers. The overall guide is still under development so these represent individual modules that are being published as they're completed.
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Today's topic covers how to choose a transport and associated encoder.
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…Today's article covers the NetTcp binding, which is going to be the popular out-of-the-box choice for communicating over an Intranet. The default configuration for TCP is faster than the configuration for HTTP, but intended only for WCF-to-WCF communication. You can open that up with a cost to speed, and you can add some WS-* specification features again at a cost to speed. There's more about this in the article I did for choosing transports and message encoders.
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…The BasicHttp binding is going to be one of the more popular out-of-the-box choices for communicating over the Internet. The primary pivot for what goes in your channel stack is going to be the method you choose for securing messages. The choices you have with BasicHttp are no security, HTTPS security, SOAP security, and HTTPS security with SOAP credentials. This is set by the Security.Mode property on the binding. Let's look at each of those in turn.
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…The WsHttp binding is a lot like the BasicHttp binding with the Web Services knob turned up a little higher. Where BasicHttp stops with message security, WsHttp continues with transactions, reliable messaging, and WS-Addressing either enabled by default or available through a single control setting. Otherwise, the HTTP-ness of the two bindings is the same and all of the binding elements being used have appeared in previous bindings.
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…When packaging up a collection of settings, how do I know whether to use a CustomBinding, extend the Binding class, or extend one of the standard binding classes?
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Excellent read for the Mobile Developers…Figure 1 illustrates common rich client mobile application architecture with components grouped by areas of concern.
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…In this article you will learn to build a picture contacts browser using advanced rendering techniques offered by the .NET Compact Framework 3.5 and the Windows Mobile APIs
