Tag Archives: WCF

Performance optimization with VS2012 profiler

Posted on July 4, 2013 by erictummers

Many systems are not optimized or sub-optimized by tweaking the wrong features. This post describes the use of the Visual Studio 2012 profiler to get insight in what to optimize and monitor the result of these optimizations. For this post … Continue reading →

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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 →

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Sniff localhost

Posted on June 23, 2012 by erictummers

My WCF services are using basic authentication over https. To prove this is a safe combination I wanted to sniff the trafic between client and host. Problem is a tool like Wireshark cannot sniff localhost. You’ll find good explanation why … Continue reading →

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Hacking Silverlight part 3

Posted on May 22, 2012 by erictummers

This post should be called Hacking WCF as I will show some configuration hacks in WCF. Read part 2 here where I discussed the clientaccesspolicy.xml and crossdomain.xml files. The Csla WcfPortal I discovered in part 1 (here) is my next … Continue reading →

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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 →

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