Pablo M. Cibraro (aka Cibrax)

I will use this post to discuss an scenario that you may run into while working with WCF, a service that returns a lot of objects (Or large data) to the client applications. This scenario is not about transferring files, that is a completely different story, and I already discussed it some time ago in another post.

As you may know, testing WCF services is not as simple as referencing a service implementation and start writing unit tests against it. If the service we want to test has a high dependency with the operation context, which is an static class, testing that service can be a very complicated task.

If you have not heard about "FeedSync" yet, it is the official name of an open and interoperable standard for representing synchronization metadata in a XML format. This specification was formerly called by Microsoft as "SSE" (Simple Sharing Extensions), and its name was changed to "FeedSync" prior to the first release version.

One of the discussions that we had during the last summit with the rest of "Connected Systems" MVPs was the possibility of supporting a Federation Scenario over TCP in WCF. For many of us that scenario was possible in theory, but unfortunately no documentation or samples existed to support it. In fact, WCF only comes with pre-built binding for federation scenarios, the "WsFederationHttpBinding" binding, which is completely tied to Http.

As a MVP rookie, the only thing I can say is that the event met all the expectations I had before traveling to Seattle, the wait was worth it. I could attend a lot of interesting sessions about WCF, WWF, and OSLO among others, which gave me a complete picture about where Microsoft is headed in the future with respect to Service oriented applications.

With the boom in social networking, many web sites have started offering new tools for building or expanding your initial network of contacts.

I am so excited, this is third time I received the Microsoft MVP award. Thanks to all people involved in the evaluation process and my MVP lead Fernando Garcia Loera.