Pablo M. Cibraro (aka Cibrax)

Some time ago I wrote an introductory post showing a basic architecture for a federation scenario in WCF. If we go back until then, the architecture showed there was something like the image below:

Today I received an email re-awarding my "Connected Systems" MVP status for another year. Thanks Again Microsoft !! for this award.

What is a service after all ?

I have been reading in different places that using a CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) interface for a service is considered a bad practice or anti-pattern. Therefore, this kind of interface should be avoided at all cost.

Thanks Soledad for tagging me.

The .NetCF team is working on a subset of WCF for the next version of the compact framework. Today I came accross this post "Windows Communication Foundation (Compact Edition) and the story of the Lunch Launcher" from Roman, a bit late because it was published almost three months ago. Anyway,  it is still good news for the Windows Mobile community.

My friends Sergio Borromei (Microsoft Consulting) and Rodolfo Finochietti (Lagash) have recently released the first RTM of their Service Invocation Framework.

These are some useful practices to design message contracts. They are based on my experience as developer on different software projects.