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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...

Announcing ASP.NET Core 2.0.0-Preview1 and Updates for .NET Web Developers

May 10, 2017 May 10, 2017 05/10/17
Jeffrey Fritz
The ASP.NET team is pleased to share the first preview version of the ASP.NET Core 2.0 framework.  In this post, we’ll look at the new features and changes to the web framework that were announced at the Build 2017 keynote and sessions.  We will also look at some other updates that were published for ASP.NET 4.7 and WCF. ASP.NET Core 2.0....

Announcing WCF Connected Service for .NET Core RC2 and ASP.NET Core RC2

May 25, 2016 May 25, 2016 05/25/16
Varsha G
With the availability of .Net Core RC2 and ASP.NET Core RC2 we are pleased to announce an update to the WCF Connected Service Preview for ASP.NET 5 Visual Studio extension tool for generating SOAP service references for clients built on top of WCF for .NET Core RC2. This update brings some improvements to the user experience when navigating ...

How to use wcftestclient as svc file debugger for VS2008 SP1

April 13, 2009 Apr 13, 2009 04/13/09
Web Development Tools Microsoft
Wcftestclient can be used to debug a WCF service. Here are two ways to enable wcftestclient debugging in Visual Studio VS2008 SP1 web applications. Tradition way: In Web application project property page, web tab, one can specify start external program and command line argument for IIS based WCF: 1. Check Use Local IIS Web server and create...