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
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
Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
I’ve been writing web applications for years, but I’ve never really had to put too much thought into whether search engines such as Google and Bing were finding the sites that I have worked on, or whether they were deducing appropriate information about those sites and giving them their appropriate ranking in search results. The [...]
In: Software Development · Tagged with: SEO, Web Development
Counting on Synergy
One of our customers, Ibcos Computers, has used Synergy/DE to develop a web server. It may sound a bit bland, but it’s actually quite cool. In simple terms they have a server program running, written in Synergy, which accepts inbound resource requests. Each request then causes a child processes (again in Synergy) to be created [...]
In: Software Development · Tagged with: Web Development, Web Services
Web Browser “Session Merging”
I just realized something about modern web browsers, and as a long time web developer it kind of took me by surprise! Maybe it shouldn’t have, maybe I should have figured this out a long time ago, but I didn’t. What I realized is that Internet Explorer 8 shares cookies between multiple tabs that are [...]
In: Software Development · Tagged with: ASP.NET, Session State, Web Development
Silverlight – What’s it all About?
Day two at PDC09, and with between ten and twelve concurrent tracks it’s pretty tough to decide which sessions to attend. Luckily there are three of us attending the conference, so with a little planning we can at least attempt to maximize our coverage. But still … so many choices! I’ve been involved with Web [...]
In: Software Development · Tagged with: ASP.NET, MVC, PDC, Silverlight, Web Development, WebForms





