Consuming WCF REST Service from WP 7

In this post I will explore a possibility of talking to a WCF REST Service from a Windows Phone 7 device.  This should complete my posts related to consuming and working with data on Windows Phone 7. I am going to start with creating a WCF REST Service.  First of all, I am going to …

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Using WinDbg to Troubleshoot WCF Performance Issues

Yesterday I was working on a very interesting problem.  I am involved in developing a Silverlight application that is using WCF Services to communicate with a server to perform CRUD and business logic related operations.  All of a sudden QA started experiencing very slow performance testing application at random times.  Once we took a look, …

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Hosting WCF Data Services on Third Party Hosting Provider

Today I am going to talk about how to create a WCF Data Service and host it using a hosting provider.  My specific example will be using GoDaddy (www.GoDaddy.com).  This is the site where I host my blog.  I already posted on this topic, but was using Azure instead.  If you have a subscription to …

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Working with Data on Windows Phone 7 – Part 2

In this part I am going to use WCF Data Services (formerly known as project Astoria and ADO.NET Data Services) to accomplish the same couple of tasks I did in WCF custom service.  I am going to get a list of people and add a person. I will use exact same project as I did …

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Working with Data on Windows Phone 7 – Part 1

I am starting a short series of blog posts that will go over various techniques of working with data on Windows Phone 7.  I am going to create a Silverlight application for the phone that gets local and remote data in a number of ways. I this first post I will build a WCF service …

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Windows Azure Application

This is purely a bragging post 🙂 I just deployed a test application to the cloud (Microsoft Azure): http://rolodex.cloudapp.net/ Here is the technology stack for it: Windows Azure SQL Azure CSLA 3.8.1 Silverlight Entity Framework WCF Prism (Composite Application Guidance) Silverlight Toolkit I promise to write a blog entry in the near future, the steps …

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WCF, basicHTTPBinding and compression

I am working on a distributes WPF application.  This application has rich client UI, while getting the data from a database server.  One complication is that this software will be installed at a several companies across the US.  All the installation have to communicate with central application server that will be hosted inside a data …

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How to debug WCF service server side errors

So, here is the issue I encountered today.  I have a solution that is using WCF service to communicate.  My WCF service is hosted in a web site (web application project).  I was getting error from my client, stating that connection was forcibly closed by the server.  I could not figure out why even though …

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