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Use Hybrid Connections to Incrementally Migrate Applications to the Cloud

October 4, 2018 Oct 4, 2018 10/4/18
Web Development Tools Microsoft
As the software industry shifts to running software in the cloud, organizations are looking to migrate existing applications from on-premises to the cloud. Last week at Microsoft’s Ignite conference, Paul Yuknewicz and I delivered a talk focused on how to get started migrating applications to Azure (watch the talk free) where we walked ...

WCF Web Service Reference Provider – Metadata Exchange Endpoint Authentication

June 28, 2017 Jun 28, 2017 06/28/17
Miguell - MSFT
With the recent update to the WCF Service Reference tool in the VS Marketplace, support has been added for downloading metadata for a web service where the metadata exchange (MEX) endpoint has been secured with IIS authentication. The purpose of MEX endpoints is to allow clients to discover the service capabilities, including security aspects...

Let’s Try WCF Self-Hosted Services in a Container

February 20, 2017 Feb 20, 2017 02/20/17
Jeffrey Fritz
Microservices are a hot architecture concept right now, and we hear a lot of interest in the architecture concepts.  Many of the ideas and capabilities behind microservices are already possible with the WCF frameworks for client and server creation.  There is one tenet about microservices that you can not do with WCF: run inside of a ...