Service Station: Building RESTful Clients

Glenn Block explains how the Managed Extensibility Framework, a new library coming in .NET Framework 4.0, tackles the longstanding issue of building applications and components that can be reused and extended by others. Learn how to build apps that can use new functionality introduced by developers, framework authors and third-party extenders.Glenn BlockMSDN Magazine February 2010

There are many ways to test WCF services, but the socket-based approach is flexible and very useful for security and performance testing. We show you show you how to test a WCF service using a network socket based approach.James McCaffreyMSDN Magazine February 2010

Building an NHibernate-based desktop application isn't any harder than building a web application, and in many cases NHibernate simplifies elements of session handling and concurrency.Oren EiniMSDN Magazine December 2009

There's no magic behind how the TFS Power Tools were integrated with Team Explorer, and we'll show you how to expose your own custom features inside the Team Explorer window.Brian A. Randell, Marcel de VriesMSDN Magazine December 2009

This article is the third in a series about n-tier programming with the Entity Framework, specifically about building custom Web services with the Entity Framework and WCF. This article looks at features coming in the second release of the Entity Framework (EF4) and how you use them to implement the Self-Tracking Entities and Data Transfer Objects (DTOs) n-tier patterns.Daniel SimmonsMSDN Magazine November 2009

This article reviews what makes XML vulnerable to denial of service attacks and how to mitigate these attacks.Bryan SullivanMSDN Magazine November 2009

This article describes aspects of using routers with the .NET service bus, especially their use in a message-based architecture.Juval LowyMSDN Magazine October 2009

John Charles OlamendyMSDN Magazine September 2009

This article discusses the Project Linker tool and other techniques to create applications that target both WPF and Silverlight from a single code base.Erwin van der ValkMSDN Magazine August 2009

This article describes how to use XHTML and ASP.NET MVC to implement REST services.Aaron SkonnardMSDN Magazine July 2009