Guy Burstein, again, writes about adding custom headers to a call made by a WCF proxy.This is all very nice and well, but his code only works with the Feb. CTP of WCF, while I'm still using January … more

Working with Visual SourceSafe always feels to me like walking on eggshells. One wrong move and you get that sickening crunching feeling and things seem to collapse.My current project's integrator … more

A few days ago, Guy Burstein wrote a entry on avoiding design-time generated proxies by extending the ClientBase class to create a GenericProxy. This proxy uses the client binding data in the app. … more

So I've started messing around with WinFX and WCF. It certainly feels like it needs more work, especially on the dev-tool end of things.I was trying to run SvcUtil to generate metadata and proxy from … more

1)    Documentation Errors When reading the documentation, I get scripting errors when accessing every page – a 80041001 script error, after which the page is readable but suffers from some layout … more

My current project has been having various inconsistent, irreproducible 401 Unauthorized errors on our web service calls. We tried various tests, checks, changes and wild guesses, and we think we’ve … more

An interesting an unusually frustrating pitfall that I've stumbled into a few times: Many times when we're preparing for deployment of a software product, we find ourselves preparing a Word document … more

I've been wondering about the origin and etymology of the term "macro" as it is used in programming. The general use for it is to mean something large - the opposite of "micro" - but it didn't seem … more