Exposing WCF Services using Synergy .NET
In this post I will explain how you can use Synergy .NET to expose a WCF service. I’ll be showing you how to create WCF service and data contracts totally from scratch, using Synergy .NET. We’ll be defining new classes, not working with existing routines and records. That’s not to say that you can’t work [...]
In: Software Development · Tagged with: .NET, OO Programming, Synergy.NET, WCF, Web Services
Self-Hosting WCF Services
Having defined a WCF service in code, and built that code into an assembly, a runtime instance of the service must be “hosted” somewhere in order for other application to be able to connect to and interact with the service. There are several ways to host WCF services. In an earlier post I described how [...]
In: Software Development · Tagged with: .NET, WCF, Web Services
Exposing WCF services using Synergy .NET Interop
In this post I will explain how a WCF service can be created using a Synergy .NET Interop project. In my earlier post I explained how to use xfNetLink .NET to create a WCF service, which provided an easy way to create a WCF service for developers who were already using xfNetLink .NET and xfServerPlus. [...]
In: Software Development · Tagged with: .NET, Visual Studio, WCF, Web Development, Web Services, xfNetLink, xfServerPlus
Building Windows 8
As Microsoft’s new Build Windows conference draws ever closer the rumor mill about what the focus of the conference will be is gathering momentum. This is due in no small part to the fact that with the conference only two weeks away there is still no published agenda. But that doesn’t seem to have deterred [...]
In: Industry News · Tagged with: .NET, Events, HTML5, Industry News, Visual Studio, Windows 8
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 [...]
In: Software Development · Tagged with: .NET, ASP.NET, Silverlight, SPC, Synergy/DE 9.5, Visual Studio, WCF, Web Development, Web Services, xfNetLink, xfServerPlus
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 [...]
In: Software Development · Tagged with: .NET, ASP.NET, Silverlight, SPC, Synergy/DE 9.5, Visual Studio, Web Development, Web Services, xfNetLink, xfServerPlus
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 [...]
In: Software Development · Tagged with: .NET, SPC, Synergy.NET, WCF, Web Services, xfNetLink, xfServerPlus
Free Stuff!
It’s a rare occasion where anything is truely free. Most of the time it’s simply a way for a marketing company to obtain information about you, so they can provide (or bombard) you with information about products that you have no interest in purchasing. However, there are some occasions when “free” really does mean that [...]
In: Development Tools · Tagged with: .NET, OO Programming, Tips & Tricks
The Final Chapter
Using Synergy in all aspects of a new WPF based development is really quite exciting. But when you start to bring in code that was written many years ago you really begin to see the power of a truly cross platform capable development environment. The task I started while working with White Knight was to [...]
In: Software Development · Tagged with: .NET, SPC, Synergy 9.5, WPF
.NET is a blast
One great aspect about my job is not only helping people utilise Synergy to the full, but to see the results of their hard work. And there is no better place to do this than “at the coal face”. Today’s coal face is, of course, on the shop floor at White Knight laundry. I was [...]
In: Success Stories · Tagged with: .NET, OO Programming





