WCF AJAX Page requests

WCF platform had not built-in support for consuming JSON objects or returning the same.
Starting with .Net framework 3.5 and “Orcas” this can be easily achieved e.g. <>

WCF 3.5, WF State Persistant Sessions [Durable Session]

You may require WCF services to persist the state information. You can take advantage of the WF persistent model. <>

Debugging SSL traffic

Debugging SSL web Traffic can be a hassel, Tools you can utilize are,
(1) ProxyTrace : http://www.pocketsoap.com/
(2) TcpTrace: http://www.pocketsoap.com/tcptrace/
Sniffing SSL traffic with a Proxy
(3) Charles: http://www.charlesproxy.com/
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Bing it!

Tips
(1) Goto: www.bing.com/worldwide.aspx , Select a country/region: United States - English
Notice the Bing background image turns interactive.
(2) Bing provides RSS feed for the search result simply append &format=rss to the end of the URL and convert the link to the RSS feed.

SQL Dependency - SQL Server 2005 Onwards

If your problem statement requires you to cache the DB recordset in the MiddleTier and invalidate the cached data on periodic or on certain notifications, you can take advantage of SQLDependency or Query Notifications. Ref Implementation details @:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/555893

Managed Extensibility Framework [MEF]

If you are a Microsoft.NET developer, you can take advantage from the full source from codeplex at:
http://www.codeplex.com/MEF

Read more on MEF at:
http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/mef

the basic idea being extensible is being able to dynamically compose stuffs, without being able to recompile the entire application source.
As an example if you have seen or heard of the pouplar game War of the worlds (WoW), the model are being extended by many-2 contributors and the ability of the game application to handle these .
It may be required to restart the application in order to index or utilize the new models, Depending on the implementation it is highly possible to differentiate changes that requires restart and the changes which can be acomodated/invalidated dynamically.

In all MEF unleashes the Framework with capacity in order to build highly Extensible applications which can be maintained by. These can be leveraged in order to build highly customizable applications.

Syndication

It is possible you may want to be able to “Track” many websites whose contents change on a very unpredictable schedule. You can use RSS or ATOM.

RSS or Really Simple Syndication is a “Format” for delivering regularly changing web content. The feeds can be automated and can be channeled into a filtered display and the privacy is ensured as the tracking party need not subscribe to any email based newsletters.

Atom Syndication format is an xml based format used for feeds and AtomPub or APP or Atom Publishing Protocol is used for updating the resources.

Read the Details and differences at:
http://www.intertwingly.net/wiki/pie/Rss20AndAtom10Compared

Microsoft.Net 4.0 Framework, “Linq To SQL [L2S], Dead?”

Quick update for Development projects using Microsoft.NET and projects which have made investment in Linq,
As of Microsoft.Net 4.0 Framework, “Linq To SQL [L2S]” will not be recommended and “Linq To Entities” [L2E] will be the recommended Data access solution. Entity Framework [EF] will address most of the needs of L2S, some of the features which dev community wants in EF are already part of the L2S and Microsoft will be making investment in making both tools alike.

Ref: http://blogs.msdn.com/adonet/archive/2008/10/31/clarifying-the-message-on-l2s-futures.aspx

Windows Server service management extensions "Dublin"

Code named “Dublin” is the new set of extensions designed for the hosting environment for WF and WCF based applications. This will be set of “Service Management” extensions which will ship along with the windows server this has been built on top of IIS/Windows Activation Services.
Features and press release can be referenced at:
http://www.microsoft.com/NET/Dublin.aspx

Microsoft.NET Framework 4.0 Beta 1 and VisualStudio 2010

.NET Framework 4.0 Beta1 been made available to public, it can be downloaded from Microsoft. http://www.microsoft.com/NET/
Few interesting feature list:
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