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26 Jan 2007

Hosting WCF service in IIS

If you run WCF service in IIS under a web site with multiple host headers, you will get the following exception: This collection already contains an address with scheme http.  There can be at most one address per scheme in this collection. Parameter name: item From the documentation, Deploying an IIS-Hosted WCF Service: Configure the WCF service IIS-hosted WCF services store their configuration in the applications Web.config file. IIS-hosted services use the same configuration ... [Read more]
Published: 26 Jan 2007  11:52 | 0  Comments | 0  Links to this post
 
 
 
 
25 Jan 2007

XSLT Aggregation on Unique Items

Performing an aggregation for a set of nodes that match an expression is fairly simple. However, performing the same aggregation for only unique items introduces more complexity. For the sample XML snippet, <applicant> <address_details> <court_judgements id="CJR" title="MRS" forename="R" surname=" JONES" value="42300" type="CJP" case_number="6XT01ZZZ"/> <court_judgements id="CJR" title ... [Read more]
Published: 25 Jan 2007  11:53 | 0  Comments | 0  Links to this post
 
 
 
 
21 Jan 2007

Introduction to Agile

Hello all, this is my first post on our team blog. I am a Project Manager here at Dot Net Solutions and my role is to ensure that agile practices are at the heart of our software delivery function. I will be looking to post snippets about agile practices, tools and our experiences here at Dot Net Solutions. A good introduction to agile I feel is to look at the Agile Manifesto which is at www.agilealliance.org We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping oth ... [Read more]
Published: 21 Jan 2007  11:54 | 0  Comments | 0  Links to this post
 
 
 
 
18 Jan 2007

Continuous Integration with Team Foundation Server and WCF

Khushboo Sharan at Microsoft has made a very basic sample for enabling continuous integration (more) with Team Foundation Server available here The sample uses a standard .Net 2 .asmx webservice to listen to CheckIn Events from the server, with the service defined as follows: [WebService(Namespace = "http://schemas.microsoft.com/Team[...] Foundation/2005/06/Services/Notification/03")] [WebServiceBinding(ConformsTo = WsiProfiles.BasicProfile1_1)] public class NotificationSe ... [Read more]
Published: 18 Jan 2007  11:57 | 0  Comments | 0  Links to this post
 
 
 
 
11 Jan 2007

Bill Gates gets interviewed at CES

A video interview got posted on the Scoble Show @ Podtech. Due to information-overload; I normally wouldn't post second hand links on this blog. Bill is a man I admire to the highest extent and this thought-provoking video provided many insights into his character and projects ongoing at Microsoft. Some highlights from the video: Banter with Scoble His passionate, intelligent and well considered responses to all questions Drove a Porsche 911 in the 70s Great di ... [Read more]
Published: 11 Jan 2007  11:58 | 0  Comments | 0  Links to this post