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Ok, the confusion is over back on my old .TEXT blog. I tried WordPress . I liked it. However, I recieved a gracious invitation from Scott Belleware and Brendan Tompkins via email to join the CodeBetter community. Based on messages from their/our community, they felt my proper home was there on CodeBetter...

I have an advanced scenario that is producing an exception that I suspect is a simple configuration setting but I don't know what it is. I am posting this on my Longhorn Blog so please comment there . I have an Indigo service (actually one of a whole bunch) that has been working with IIS6/Windows XP...

[ Topic from Main Blog ] This blog has been going since March 2002 when it was only me, Peter Drayton and Simon Fell as .NET bloggers. Its come a long way since then. I know I have a lot of loyal readers and a lot of people that recomend me on their blogs. I thank you from the bottom of my heart. I am...

So now that things are working, at least without Glass, I have kept going. The following is what I have tried installing: Installed Software Product Status Microsoft Office Professsional 2003 with SP2 Success but Outlook 2003 doesn't seem to retreive mail Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Architect Success...

Normally I am really excited about new releases of WinFX/Indigo but our team members just looked up after reading Tom Archer's post and said “***, we have to upgrade again.” As Tom says, “Go to my Windows Vista Get the Beta Web page to see a description of what's included, read the release notes and...

I was in the middle of a beautifull New and Notable, 2nd day in a row no less when Windows Vista Beta 1 froze. No blue screen, just totally froze. No response to Task Manager or Ctrl-Alt-Delete. I guess you are not supposed to play a Windows Media Player file at the same time as doing anything else or...

Yet another big gap (August 3rd) . As you can tell from all the latest posts, I am playing a lot with Vista, WinFX (Indigo AND Avalon) and half a dozen incompatible versions of SQL Server/VSTS as well as diving into ADO.NET 2.0 in my day job. I am also writing some great new code and material for my...

Indigo is uninteresting. Wait, don't jump to conclusions. Indigo is uninteresting because they have done such a good job of removing communication details from my problem space. Isn't this the ultimate goal of any API, sure. Now, I am able to take the freed time and spend it on other problem domains...

[Primer] There are two types of channels in the colorful world of Indigo: typed and untyped. A typed channel is the way by which you program against the service WSDL, typically through an auto-generated interface. Obviously, as the name implies, you must conform to a contract. On the other hand, there...

The article can be found here This article focuses on Indigo holistically, such that by the time beta rolls around, everyone will be ready for the next generation of communication. That is not to say that it is not built around today’s communication architecture and the WS specs. We will cover...