Web services having a greater interoperability to communicate messages across heterogeneous systems, however challenge is serializing the data into XML. Users may want to send images,videos, drawings, xml documents etc. together with SOAP message. What is MTOM? Message Transmission Optimization Mechanism (MTOM) is a mechanism of transferring transferring large amounts binary data as...
Guidelines for Developing Class Libraries in .NET
This post explains about design guidelines for developing class libraries that extends the .NET Framework. Following design guidelines provides benefits of consistency and unified programming model for developers.
Naming Conventions for Casing Identifiers
There are two different styles in Casing Identifiers
Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 Beta Released
Microsoft announced VS 2010 Service Pack1 Beta and is ready for download. MSDN subscribers can download beta from here
General users can download from here
Service Pack 1 Beta including the following features
.NET Framework 4 File IO Features
New methods are added to the System.IO.File class in .NET framework 4.0 for reading and writing text files.
ReadLines
In earlier version we have used File.ReadAllLines method which returns a string array of all lines in the file.
String[] lines = File.ReadAllLines(“file.txtâ€);
.NET Framework 4 BCL
All .NET developers who uses the BaseClassLibraries can read this post to know what’s New in the .NET FW 4 BCL. Its not the scope of this post to cover all the features but you can read them on BCL team blog at blogs.msdn.com/bclteam. The following are the features that you can explore in BCL Code Contracts Parallel extensions Tuples File IO improvements Memory mapped files Sorted Set...
WCF Features in .NET Framework 4.0
Introduction
WCF providing a way to define service contracts and to configure endpoint definitions using the declarative XAML in .NET Framework 4.0.
Consider the WCF service contract definition: