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Hosting WCF Services in an ASP.NET Web Application

There are several ways that you can use Synergy/DE tools to expose WCF services, but regardless of which way you decide to create a service, the next decision you have to make is how to host it. By hosting a WCF service you expos the service and make it possible to use it from other [...]

Exposing WCF Services using xfNetLink .NET

Following a recent enhancement to the product in Synergy 9.5.1, developers can now use xfNetLink .NET to create and expose Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) services. In this post I will describe how to do so. This is the second in a series of posts relating to the various ways in which Synergy developers can use [...]

Optimizing your Visual Studio 2010 Experience

Visual Studio 2010 is one of the best IDE’s I have ever seen and worked with, and provides, out of the box, a truly impressive array of tools to make developers lives easier and more productive. But, as good as it already is, there is still room for improvement. Luckily Microsoft has provided an extensible [...]

Building Distributed Apps with Synergy/DE and WCF

At the recent SPC’s in Chicago and Oxford several of the sessions that I presented were focused on networking, and in particular on the various tools and technologies that are available to Synergy developers to allow them to build and deploy distributed software applications. In particular I spent quite a bit of time talking about [...]

Airline Baggage Roulette

Well it's another day in United Airlines "friendly skies" for me. I'm setting out on a week-long treck around the East Coast and Mid-West to visit several Synergy/DE customers with one of our sales account managers, Nigel David. It takes a LOT to make me smile when leaving home at 4.am on a Sunday morning, but today [...]

Starting Services on Linux

For a while now I’ve been wondering about what the correct way is to start boot time services such as the Synergy License Manager, xfServer and xfServerPlus on Linux systems. A few years ago I managed to “cobble something together” that seemed to work OK, but I had a suspicion that I only had part [...]

Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Hangs After Office Upgrade

Just incase you run into the same issue… This week I had to revert back to using Visual Studio 2008 while working on a customer project, and I pretty quickly found that I had a problem. I was working on an ASP.NET web project, and found that each time I opened a web page for [...]

Linux ls Color Coding

It’s always driven me CRAZY the way that RedHat, Fedora, and presumably other Linux systems apply color coding to various types of files and directories in the output of the ls command. It wouldn’t be so bad, but it seems like the default colors for various file types and protection modes are just totally unreadable [...]

“Applemania” and iPhone 4

So I finally did what I said I would never do … I set out from home, in the wee hours of the morning, to stand in line for hours in order to buy something!  The venue? … my local AT&T store. The event? … the first in store availability of iPhone 4. In my [...]

Windows Live SkyDrive

Have you ever wished there was an easy way to view and edit your documents on different computers, in different locations, in fact … from anywhere, and without having to carry USB thumb drives, or log in to a VPN. Well there is, and it’s free. For some time now Microsoft have offered a free [...]

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