Category Archives: Development

Dotnet development

Code generation from Visual Studio UML class diagram

Posted on July 2, 2012 by erictummers

In the Ultimate edition of Visual Studio 2010 Microsoft has put the Architecture feature. With this I can create Graphs, Layer and UML diagrams. The feature is readonly in the Premium edition, but I’m not sure it can generate code … Continue reading →

Posted in Development | Tagged azure, class diagram, classdiagram, Code, codegeneration, DataContract, generate code, interface, servicecontract, serviceimplementation, T4, Tooling, UML, Visual Studio 2010, WCF, Windows Azure | 1 Comment

Windows Azure SDK 1.6 update

Posted on June 1, 2012 by erictummers

Today I updated Windows Azure SDK to the latest 1.6 from November 2011. The update was from SDK 1.4 which I uninstalled before installing 1.6. After the update my unittests failed. Short solution below. Commandline to set environment variable: Regedit … Continue reading →

Posted in Development | Tagged azure, Azure SDK, commandline, environment variable, Reflector, regedit, SDK 1.6, unittest, Windows Azure, Windows Azure Emulator | Leave a comment

Windows Azure SDK better with wrappers

Posted on May 25, 2012 by erictummers

Since Windows Azure SDK 1.2 back in 2010 I’m trying to get my unittests up and running. I posted about it on the Microsoft forum and consulted the JustMock forum. Nobody was able to provide the solution as it looks … Continue reading →

Posted in Development | Tagged azure, decouple, fakes, interface, reference, Rhino mocks, RoleEnvironment, RoleEnvironmentHelper, singleton, telerik, Telerik JustMock, unittest, vs11, Windows Azure, windows azure sdk, wrapper | Leave a comment

Basic authentication in selfhosted mono service

Posted on May 10, 2012 by erictummers

I want to secure my selfhosted service on mono with basic authentication. This works with an Authorization header in the http request and can be setup with configuration for the binding. The setting BasicHttpSecurityMode.TransportCredentialOnly only encrypts the header and no … Continue reading →

Posted in Development | Tagged 401, authorization header, basic authentication, BasicHttpSecurityMode, Fiddler, http, mono, security message, selfhosted, TransportCredentialOnly | 6 Comments

Fileless activation without svc extension (sort of)

Posted on May 1, 2012 by erictummers

Hosting WCF services in Windows Azure is easy: create service contract and implementation, add serviceactivation to web.config of the Role you’re hosting the service in. The serviceactivation needs a registered extension (svc) to be activated. When you want to do … Continue reading →

Posted in Development | Tagged azure, extension, iis, rewrite, serviceactivation, svc, url rewrite, WCF, Windows Azure | Leave a comment