Head in the Cloud

I was asked by several people recently: Can I use dependency injection with my legacy WCF and ASMX web services? Microsoft has some new stuff they released with core–specifically, a new configuration system, caching, and logging providers. Can I use them in my legacy WCF and ASMX web services? The answer to both is yes you can! In fact, I recommend it! To illustrate this, we’ll take a look at taking a sample application that has a WCF service and a ASMX service and we’ll: Add dependency injection using Ninject. Add the new Configuration provider from the new  Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration  packages. Add caching functionality using Microsoft’s new  Microsoft.Extensions.Caching  packages. Use the new logging providers from  Microsoft.Extensions.Logging  packages. Dependency Injection We use Ninject, but you can just as easily use AutoFac or SimpleInjector as they also have packaged integrations for WCF. You can use other containers, bu...

I Googled, Binged, and scoured internet and various documentation and could not find this setting.  I was able to reverse engineer the declarative markup based on the properties in the classes and code samples. If you want to use the shared access signature authentication with the netMessagingBinding in WCF declaratively in your web.config or app.config, here's how.... Given the service bus connection string.... Endpoint=sb://acme.servicebus.windows.net/;SharedAccessKeyName=efudd;SharedAccessKey=f9JFgRYdLdnPTQv4/EC5ixt4iHVUSTCnhOg1uep9lsW= The configuration for your transportClientEndpointBehavior looks like this... < transportClientEndpointBehavior > < tokenProvider > < sharedAccessSignature keyName ="efudd" key ="f9JFgRYdLdnPTQv4/EC5ixt4iHVUSTCnhOg1uep9lsW=" /> </ tokenProvider > </ transportClientEndpointBehavior > Happy Coding!

I've been having some fun lately on an integration project involving and on-premises BizTalk 2010 implementation and the Windows Azure Service Bus.  We've run across some interesting challenges that aren't well documented, if at all, so I wanted to share with you all.  I'll take a tutorial approach through real world scenarios as well as talk a little bit about the academics. The business requirement:  Publish a BizTalk Orchestration to the Windows Azure Service Bus and secure the service with client/service certificates. Seems simple enough, but the implementation had me banging my head against a wall.  Rather than throw it all at you at once, let's start small... A Simple WCF Service Let's start with a simple WCF service and client that we'll use throughout the rest of the discussion/lab.  I won't go to too much into the detail of creating WCF services and consuming them.  I 'm assuming if you're researc...