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So I was talking to Shea Strickland a relatively new starter in readify who is doing some WCF work and asked  about the role provider support in WCF. He pointed me to an article by Dominick Baier who mentioned that the RoleProviderPrincipal in WCF will actually cause a database call each time an IsInRole check is performed.

I thought I'd pass on some link love to Damian Edwards, the resident readify CSS god. Here recently did an RDN presentation on using CSS effectively with ASP.NET and the first of a series of articles on that very subject can be found here.

I had a requirement for a client where we were upgrading a web site that had a business web service exposed, and we had to create a new service that was identical in operation to the old (from a consumer perspective).

Just a reminder, readify are hosting another WPF industrial strength training workshop with Ian Griffiths from Pluralsight as your host. If you want to get up speed with WPF and learn to make it really work for you, this is a great course.

Here is the annual year end podcast that Wally and myself try and put out as a kind of summary of the year and to also highlight some of the things that may play a big part in the future.

Like probably many MVP's who get re-assessed this time of year, this post is an announcement of me being re-awarded MVP status for another year.

I was trying to create an endpoint using WCF that was to look almost identical to an existing endpoint hat was created using some java tools (we were creating a new .Net app and had to mimic some older endpoints).The endpoint seemed ok at first glance according to the WSDL so I generated a client from it using the SVCUTIL.EXE tool and was going to use the interface from that to base my new service off.

I took the opportunity to sit the WCF Beta exam a few days ago and I must say, it was very hard. Being beta, I don't find out the results until about 8 weeks later, but I reckon I didn't fare too well.