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Windows Phone 7 & Azure Service Bus REST Authentication and Messaging

Important: In this sample the secret key is present on the client (Phone) itself. SInce a secret key...

Author: Prathul Prabhakar - MSFT Date: 08/09/2012

Pex Issue : "Delete Generated Unit Tests in Class" or Using existing test projects

To give a brief overview of what Pex is, Microsoft Pex is a Visual Studio add-in that provides...

Author: Prathul Prabhakar - MSFT Date: 06/19/2012

FIX: WCF Metadata not published

Ever faced this problem? No matter whatever you try, your WCF service metadata just wouldn’t...

Author: Prathul Prabhakar - MSFT Date: 03/16/2012

Now Available : Appfabric 1.1 Caching GUI Administrator

Finally, I have published the graphical untility to administer and configure Appfabric 1.1 caching....

Author: Prathul Prabhakar - MSFT Date: 01/31/2012

Windows Phone users! Forget 'Siri'; Ask Ziggy

Wish you a very happy new year!!! May this year be filled with success and fabulous joys! :) Nothing...

Author: Prathul Prabhakar - MSFT Date: 01/02/2012

Architecture: Solving a resequencing problem

Problem: Some systems, especially the financial ones require that the sequence of orders coming into...

Author: Prathul Prabhakar - MSFT Date: 12/27/2011

WCF - Windows Service Hosting Error Resolutions

Ever came across any of these errors while hosting WCF on windows service? 1. The xxx service on...

Author: Prathul Prabhakar - MSFT Date: 12/26/2011

A simple Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) application using ImportMany

Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) is a component of .NET Framework 4.0 for creating lightweight,...

Author: Prathul Prabhakar - MSFT Date: 12/12/2011

Windows Server Appfabric 1.1 RTM is now available: Whats new?

The much awaited Windows Server Appfabric 1.1 is now RTM and available for download. Windows Server...

Author: Prathul Prabhakar - MSFT Date: 12/06/2011

Appfabric Cache: Read from & Write to Database (Read through - Write behind)

The Windows Server Appfabric 1.1 CTP has the much awaited Read-through and Write-through feature....

Author: Prathul Prabhakar - MSFT Date: 12/05/2011

Hosting WCF NetTCP on IIS WAS

This post will walk you through setting up and running a WCF service using NetTcp binding on Windows...

Author: Prathul Prabhakar - MSFT Date: 11/28/2011