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UsernameToken Profile vs. WCF

The WS-Security UsernameToken Profile 1.0 defines how the username and password can be encapsulated...

Date: 06/24/2010

Override AtlThrow with care

ATL allows you to replace its stock routine, AtlThrow, for communicating an error back to the caller...

Date: 05/12/2010

WIF on Windows Server 2003

I was setting up Windows Identity Foundation (WIF, formerly known as Geneva) on Windows Server 2003...

Date: 04/26/2010

Garbage collection vs. expression evaluation

A few months ago, a customer contacted us with a problem that seemed to be related to WCF. As it...

Date: 04/23/2010

Service metadata: size does matter

Web services use standards like WSDL and WS-Policy to describe themselves in an interoperable...

Date: 02/04/2010

Tool of the month: Microsoft Service Trace Viewer

I was quite busy during the last two months, but today I’m back with a new post. If you use WCF,...

Date: 02/01/2010

CAtlHttpClient and NTLM authentication

I’m working on a customer problem that revolves around NTLM authentication. To cut a long story...

Date: 11/19/2009

WCF Performance Counters

WCF offers its own set of performance counters, which allow you to observe the live performance of...

Date: 10/19/2009

Avoid using Assembly.LoadFrom

On MSDN, there’s a warning that using Assembly.LoadFrom() has disadvantages. The following could be...

Date: 10/16/2009

Visual Basic 6 and .NET COM Interop

This is a quite popular topic on the Internet, and this has a reason: a lot of developers need to...

Date: 10/12/2009

First post

Hello and welcome to my blog on MSDN.My name is Ákos Szegő and I work as a Technical Lead in the...

Date: 10/06/2009