Andru's WebLog

Comments about technology and software architecture, software development and other nerd stuff! :)

  • Vista RTM: so far, so good

    Tags: Vista

    A couple of months ago I upgraded my home PC with the RTM version of Windows Vista Ultimate. I performed a clean install because the previous RC2 started to degrade and turned out to be a faulty disk … more

  • WCF Extensibility - Part 2

    Tags: .NET, NETFX3, SOA, WCF

    Service Description Figure 2. ServiceDescription at runtime The Service Description is the heart of the service and is created when a ServiceHost or client ChannelFactory is created to … more

  • WCF Extensibility - Part 1

    Tags: .NET, NETFX3, SOA, WCF

    What we have in WCFWCF has a design that clearly shows a very hard work of many talented people for a long time, and that kind of effort can only be a good thing.The first thing you note when start … more

  • Understanding WCF Extensibility

    Tags: .NET, NETFX3, SOA, WCF

    I have written a white paper on WCF extensibility and I would like to share it with the community so I have attached a copy to this post in Word 2003 format. Enjoy!Andrés G … more

  • Upgraded to Vista RC2

    Tags: Tech Edge, Vista

    Last week I upgraded my personal machine to the Vista RC2 version. It was running RC1 and for the most part it worked well, except for some blue screens and some extrange behavior with my video card … more

  • WS-Compression, WCF and Named Pipes

    Tags: .NET, C#, NET 2.0, NETFX3, WCF

    I found the WCF version of the WSE3 compression filters on the Pablo Cribaro's blog where he published an updated WCF RC1 version.This code was first released by Morty for WSE2. At that time … more

  • PowerThreading ThreadPool with propagation

    Tags: .NET, C#

    I have been playing with the cool PowerThreading library created by Jeffrey Richter from Wintellect (found in http://www.wintellect.com/MemberOnly/PowerThreading.aspx ) and replaced an old … more