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Service Oriented Communication with Windows Communication Foundation

Posted by Christian Weyer on Jan 16, 2008 12:34 PM

Community
.NET,
Architecture
Topics
SOA Platforms
Tags
Service Design,
WCF,
Qcon London 2007,
QCon
Summary
Communication is everywhere. The Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) can be used to design and develop service-oriented distributed solutions. This presentation shows the basics of WCF and how to solve common problems in distributed systems. Christian Weyer provides a practical approach to realizing distributed solutions with WCF - beyond the hype and 'Hello World'.

Bio
Christian Weyer is co-founder of thinktecture, supporting software architects and developers in designing and implementing distributed solutions architectures. He has been modeling and implementing distributed applications. Christian has been focusing on the ideas and concepts of service-orientation and their practical translation. He is Microsoft MVP and Microsoft Regional Director.

About the conference
QCon is a conference that is organized by the community, for the community.The result is a high quality conference experience where a tremendous amount of attention and investment has gone into having the best content on the most important topics presented by the leaders in our community.QCon is designed with the technical depth and enterprise focus of interest to technical team leads, architects, and project managers.

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worst video streaming......ever by ryan martin Posted Jan 17, 2008 10:21 AM
Re: worst video streaming......ever by Niels Tindbæk Posted Jan 18, 2008 4:34 PM
Re: worst video streaming......ever by Floyd Marinescu Posted Jan 21, 2008 2:26 PM
Re: worst video streaming......ever by Gregor Rosenauer Posted Jan 23, 2008 2:00 PM
Re: worst video streaming......ever by ryan martin Posted Jan 26, 2008 11:42 AM
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    worst video streaming......ever

    Jan 17, 2008 10:21 AM by ryan martin

    This site is so annoying. Great content, horrible streaming. As soon as I get engaged in a talk it freezes.... Buffering... FOR EVER. ARGH!!!

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    Re: worst video streaming......ever

    Jan 18, 2008 4:34 PM by Niels Tindbæk

    I completely agree - great content, horrible streaming. PLEASE improve it, or allow us to download the webcast.

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    Re: worst video streaming......ever

    Jan 21, 2008 2:26 PM by Floyd Marinescu

    Guys, I'm terribly sorry. There is something wrong with our video streaming provider and we're doing what we can to troubleshoot - unfortunately it's out of our control. We are exploring alternatives as fast as we can and are scheduled to migrate to a completely new solution by the beginning of March, which will make all these problems go away. Floyd

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    Re: worst video streaming......ever

    Jan 23, 2008 2:00 PM by Gregor Rosenauer

    Please do also provide transcripts for us non-native speakers. It would be very helpful if I could read the info on my way to/from work vs. having to sit at the desk and watch...

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    Re: worst video streaming......ever

    Jan 26, 2008 11:42 AM by ryan martin

    Thanks Floyd, I look forward to that. Other than the video issue, the site and content are fantastic.

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