by Derek Du

If a WebAPI service takes a long time to complete, the caller -- the client side -- may timeout waiting for a response. There are several options to solve this issue, you can increase the timeout limit on the client side and web server side, or use a more persistent connection method like WebSocket and SignalR.

I propose a different way to avoid the timeout issue that all...

by Derek Du

After my last blog post about using Cert-based Message security for WCF web service, we started to look into using Windows Authentication for a different system that also sits behind a load balancer/SSL handler. Windows Authentication provides a much easier integration option – the client side can simply provide a domain user account to be authenticated, whereas in Cert-ba...

by Jacky Xu

Recently, I was researching .net linq syntax and found one interesting function: Extension Methods. I found myself asking, Why can linq add many methods to many existing classes? Did Microsoft change these classes? The answer is no. They are using a new c# 3.0 feature: Extension Methods. The old way is to inherit the “string” class and add it to your new method, and use y...

by Derek Du

Configuring WCF web service’s security is just tedious. Microsoft has been trying to make it simple by removing many configuration settings in .NET 4.5, but it can still get messy if you need to touch the security part. There are many bindings and there are Message, Transport, and TransportWithMessageCredentials security modes, each with their own client credential types, ...

by Jacky Xu Sometimes we need to check some debug information, but do not want to create a log file. We can use a tool named “debugview.exe” to monitor the debug output. 
The tool is developed by Sysinternals. And you can download it from the Microsoft website. For a .net developer, it is very simple to get a program’s output debug information. Try this:
Debug.WriteLine...

by Jacky Xu
 
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by Jacky Xu
Here are the three most interesting articles I read this week:
1. The Sage 300 ERP System Manager Core DLLs http://smist08.wordpress.com/2014/02/08/the-sage-300-system-manager-core-dlls/
It helps Sage 300 developers understand the low levels of Sage 300 ERP. Also, it lets you have a clear structure of Sage 300 EP.
2. Automatically increments the assemblies version http://devsid.blogsp...

by Sheila Zhang

This is a continuation from a previous blog.
When creating documentation, you can use a reference in some types of tags. The compiler translates the reference for you. For example: 
 
It will convert the simple method name to the full method name:
...

by Sheila Zhang

by Derek Du Unfortunately, my approach is not perfect in that it still requires a manual click to open the GUI of Dotfuscator. It is good for me, though, since I only run it during building in Release mode.
Here is how I run the command during building:
1. Find the location of Dotfuscator CE, which is included in VS2012, by going to Tools -> External Tools.
2. Copy the path from the Command box...