Consuming FaultContract with Restful WCF services

I’ve learned something new this morning while doing a proof-of-concept around WCF REST services.

I did a little WPF demo app both hosting and consuming web services.  I was trying to handle faults properly, using fault contracts.  I had experience with SOAP-based WCF web services, so I went the motions, starting by creating a fault contract:

[DataContract

Departmental Application Migration to Azure – Part 3 – ADFS with on-premise web app

This is part of a series of blogs.  See the preceding blog entries:

• Departmental Application Migration to Azure – Part 1
• Departmental Application Migration to Azure – Part 2 – ADFS Installation

For me, authentication is the major challenge for this proof of concept.  The migration of our tiny database, the web application that...

BPOS SharePoint 2010

I finally read an official note from the BPOS team about a bunch of features I was looking for in BPOS, especially for SharePoint.  Mainly:

• Federated Identity!
• SharePoint 2010 Online
• Extranet access for SharePoint online

There are no date mentioned, but BPOS usually deploys new version quarterly.

As I mentioned in...

Microsoft Online (BPOS)

I’ve been looking at the BPOS offering for my company.  Since the documentation is quite spread-out on the web, I though a blog post about my findings would be useful.

Terminology

First thing, let’s clear out the terminology.  As it is sometimes the case with Microsoft products, it’s not a simple thing.

Microsoft Online is MS offering for Cloud Services. ...

Robust Non-ACID Transaction pattern in Azure

I’ve been working some more on some detailed design of the Azure Pub-Sub CodePlex project.  This project aims at creating a pub-sub messaging infrastructure running on Windows Azure & using Azure Storage.

Azure storage doesn’t support ACID transactions in general.  Each operation is a transaction within a given partition, but you can’t span a transaction on many operations.  Now...