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Being the Dev world such a dynamic vortex of always new cool stuff coming out I thought it would be...

Author: José Paulo Pendão Date: 06/06/2018

.NET Core 2.1 RC 1 released

Microsoft just announced .NET Core 2.1 Release Candidate 1 (RC 1). The .NET Core 2.1 RC 1 is now...

Author: José Paulo Pendão Date: 05/16/2018

How to use reserved port in netTcpBinding and basicHttpBinding in a WCF Application

One of my colleagues was working with a customer where they were using a self-hosted WCF service...

Author: José Paulo Pendão Date: 05/11/2018

Release of the .NET Framework 4.7.2.

Today, Microsoft announce the release of the .NET Framework 4.7.2. It’s included in the Windows 10...

Author: José Paulo Pendão Date: 05/01/2018

Using Face Recognition as Authentication or the CNTK vs Cognitive APIs Discussion

A couple of days ago, in one of those "exciting" conversations that we geeks have by the water...

Author: José Paulo Pendão Date: 03/21/2018

New Xamarin Docs WebSite

Do you want to learn everything about how to develop Cross Platforms Application with Xamarin?...

Author: José Paulo Pendão Date: 03/14/2018

Does System.Net.WebSockets include a keepalive mechanism which automatically takes care of Ping/Pong control frames?

Yes, you read it right, sometimes you have those types of existential queries. :-) This is actually...

Author: José Paulo Pendão Date: 03/12/2018

Update 6 of Visual Studio 2017

Today Microsoft released the Update 6 of Visual Studio 2017. Below are the details. Release Notes...

Author: José Paulo Pendão Date: 03/07/2018

Desktop Developers, how do you interact with your data?

Did you know Microsoft is seeking feedback from developers about  how do you interact with data? You...

Author: José Paulo Pendão Date: 02/28/2018

Xamarin.Forms using plugins vs. Native UI (Part 2)

Regarding, my last Post about this topic of "Xamarin.Forms using plugins vs. Native UI", I had...

Author: José Paulo Pendão Date: 02/26/2018

Xamarin.Forms using plugins vs. Native UI

One of these days, I saw a discussion around when a team should use Xamarin.Forms with plugins to...

Author: José Paulo Pendão Date: 02/19/2018

Using AzureAD Authentication within an Angular Application

A couple of days ago I had a request to provide some feedback regarding what I will consider a good...

Author: José Paulo Pendão Date: 02/05/2018

Servicing Update for VS 2017 Update 5 is here

Good news...The 5th Servicing Update for VS 2017 Update 5 has been released. This servicing update...

Author: José Paulo Pendão Date: 01/29/2018

I need to implement a WebSocket Server, what should I use?

In one of those typical "geeks coffee breaking" we went into a discussion about a scenario where...

Author: José Paulo Pendão Date: 01/26/2018

Some cool stuff around ASP.NET Core 2.0 and ReactJS

Looking for a good reference for ReactJS and ASP .NET MVC sample project, preferably with Authn and...

Author: José Paulo Pendão Date: 01/23/2018

After Server reboot you loose your SSL Bindings funcionatlity on your WCF Service

For some "supernatural" and "odd" reason sometimes you loose your SSL bindings in your WCF Services...

Author: José Paulo Pendão Date: 01/02/2018

Two WCF services listening on Endpoint using NamedPipes can thrown EndpointNotFoundException

Some time ago, I was helping out a team of developers that after testing this new WCF Service in...

Author: José Paulo Pendão Date: 11/28/2017

Use TLS 1.2 on a Windows Store App developed with Xamarin

So, lets imagine that you are using Xamarin do develop some Apps that will targeting Android, iOS...

Author: José Paulo Pendão Date: 11/01/2017

The WCF Service, the Load Balancer and the Transport Security

Looking at the title of this post it looks almost that I will be talking about a remake of some...

Author: José Paulo Pendão Date: 10/24/2017

Can I define a UDT inside a Oracle Function Package and use it on my WCF-Oracle Adaptor?

One of this days I got this problem were some help was needed to provide an insight regarding the...

Author: José Paulo Pendão Date: 10/17/2017

Wondering about WCF Proxy usage

Usually one of the topics in the WCF space that causes the most doubts and discussions are around...

Author: José Paulo Pendão Date: 10/13/2017

Hosting Workflows in a WCF Service is queueing up and times out

Hosting a Workflow through a WCF Service is not an usual scenario that we see very often, right?...

Author: José Paulo Pendão Date: 10/05/2017

How can WCF service send "Connection: close" in HTTP Response Header?

Developers have sometimes this strange desire to do odd things :-) One of this days a colleague of...

Author: José Paulo Pendão Date: 10/02/2017

Does WCF on IIS needs Anonymous Authentication?

One of this days, I had this conversation with one of my colleagues where he was saying that you...

Author: José Paulo Pendão Date: 09/27/2017

[WCF Errors] : Could not find a base address that matches scheme net.tcp for the endpoint with binding NetTcpBinding

So, you decided to migrate some of your WCF Services into a new Server. However after this migration...

Author: José Paulo Pendão Date: 09/21/2017

Script to restore restore the default DCOM settings

Sometimes I had some colleagues coming out to me asking for help to troubleshoot some weird errors...

Author: José Paulo Pendão Date: 09/18/2017

We want your feedback

Did you know Microsoft is seeking feedback from developers about including WCF Services features in...

Author: José Paulo Pendão Date: 09/08/2017

How Transactions work on WCF

One of this days I had this scenario where I needed to discuss with some colleagues how to configure...

Author: José Paulo Pendão Date: 09/06/2017

When browsing a WCF Web site I receive the Error "Web Page cannot be found"

One of this days I got a complaining from one colleague where he was trying to setup an BizTalk...

Author: José Paulo Pendão Date: 08/25/2017

How to detect on a WCF Service that a client just got disconnected?

One of this days, I had to work on a problem where we needed to detect an unexpected disconnection...

Author: José Paulo Pendão Date: 08/23/2017

Using a JWT on a Windows Service

One of this days I had this really fun challenge that I need to tackle. So consider the follow, I...

Author: José Paulo Pendão Date: 07/25/2017

Workflow Manager CU4 is finally here

Yup that's true, the new and much expected Cumulative Update 4 for Workflow Manager is finally here....

Author: José Paulo Pendão Date: 07/13/2017

WCF Service consumed by Sharepoint App throwing "Could not establish trust relationship" Error

This one was one of those that end up being a simple issue that was causing a lot of confusion. So,...

Author: José Paulo Pendão Date: 07/10/2017

Initial Troubleshoot DCOM Errors 10000, 10001, 10002, 10003 and 10004

Continuing on the last topic about how to troubleshoot some of the most common DCOM Errors, a couple...

Author: José Paulo Pendão Date: 06/23/2017

How to identify PID of AppPools

Today, I just decided to write a very straightforward post about something that I was not aware it...

Author: José Paulo Pendão Date: 06/09/2017

Some Workflow Manager useful database queries

Following my last post, I was thinking that would be a good idea sharing some other queries that you...

Author: José Paulo Pendão Date: 06/01/2017

Get the Workflow details using the WorkflowInstanceID

When troubleshooting Sharepoint Workflows, one need that often comes out, is regarding how to get...

Author: José Paulo Pendão Date: 05/15/2017

Using Wildcard Certificates for Multi-Server Farm

In terms of scalability, Workflow Manager farm sits on top of a Service Bus farm, and can only...

Author: José Paulo Pendão Date: 05/02/2017

Maximum allowed Correlation Filter have been reached or exceeded

The Error Exception command text: [dbo].[PerformBatchOperations], exception =...

Author: José Paulo Pendão Date: 04/03/2017

Some thoughts around Service Throttling on WCF Services

One of this we had to work on an issue around how to implement the Service Throttling Behaviour in a...

Author: José Paulo Pendão Date: 03/03/2017

Changing my Workflow Manager Farm Certificates

From my experience one of the situation that most scares anyone administering a WFM Farm is...

Author: José Paulo Pendão Date: 02/08/2017

What Microsoft Azure Service do I choose?

Nowadays, one of the most daunting choices for you as a developer when considering migrate a Service...

Author: José Paulo Pendão Date: 01/17/2017

WFM Certificates with multiple SANs can have issues

When playing around with some odd WFM Configurations in my WFM Dev Environment, I stumble upon a...

Author: José Paulo Pendão Date: 01/04/2017

Five Steps to check your WFM

One of the most unknown products of Microsoft is this "Workflow Manager". Here we have a product...

Author: José Paulo Pendão Date: 12/13/2016