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Using WCF Services in Synergy .NET Applications

Apparently there are some people actually reading this BLOG!!! And … it turns out that quite a few of them have been working through my earlier series of posts related to using WCF. Excellent! It occurred to me that since I wrote the last of those articles we have had a release of a new [...]

De-Serializing Classes containing Synergy Types

A customer recently reported a strange problem that they were seeing when attempting to use WCF. The problem seemed to occur when they attempted to call a method in their WCF service, where that method had a parameter used to send a class TO the service, and where that class included the use of Synergy [...]

Microsoft Announce Windows Store Details

Since the //BUILD conference in September many developers have been eagerly awaiting the details of how the new “Windows Store” will operate. The Windows Store will be the primary mechanism by which Windows 8 users will find and acquire Windows Metro-Style Apps. In addition to the information provided during the event, a new BLOG called [...]

Windows Reimagined

Well, all I can say is “WOW”! The first day of the Microsoft BUILD conference is over, and it’s been a LONG day, and it’s been a BUSY day, and it’s been an EXCITING day. Wow! I’m buzzed … and I’m really quite surprised by that statement. I arrived in Anaheim a little over 24 [...]

Windows 8 and Screen Resolution

If you’re thinking of purchasing a new laptop, or a new flat-panel monitor for your desktop PC, you might want to think a carefully about the resolution of the screen that you select. Because if you’re purchasing new hardware now, you’re likely to want to run Windows 8 on that hardware before the end of [...]

Exposing WCF Services using Synergy .NET

In this post I will explain how you can use Synergy .NET to expose a WCF service. I’ll be showing you how to create WCF service and data contracts totally from scratch, using Synergy .NET. We’ll be defining new classes, not working with existing routines and records. That’s not to say that you can’t work [...]

Self-Hosting WCF Services

Having defined a WCF service in code, and built that code into an assembly, a runtime instance of the service must be “hosted” somewhere in order for other application to be able to connect to and interact with the service. There are several ways to host WCF services. In an earlier post I described how [...]

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. [...]

Building Windows 8

As Microsoft’s new Build Windows conference draws ever closer the rumor mill about what the focus of the conference will be is gathering momentum. This is due in no small part to the fact that with the conference only two weeks away there is still no published agenda. But that doesn’t seem to have deterred [...]

All Hooked Up. (Circa 1957, Elvis Presley)

Back in the day, Elvis Presley shook up a bit of a stir when his gyrating hips and dulcet tones came over the airways onto our little black and white TVs (so I was told, I’m not old enough!). Today, Synergex is defining a development that will shake the Synergy world when it’s released with [...]