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Yesterday, Bill Bridges (Development Editor of my new book) sent me an email about a problem in one of the recent chapters of my upcoming book about Visual Studio Extensibility. The problem, that had taken half an hour of his time to get fixed was a simple formatting problem in one of source code samples. A a non-technical man, he was honest to change all lines of a source codes manually one by one. Book publishers like to use spaces for code indentations not tabs. In that chapter, one code sample...

You know that there are two common ways to host a Windows Communication Foundation service as a self-hosted service or in IIS. But there is a division of self-hosting that is a bit different and that is self-hosting a WCF service in a Windows service. In this post I talk about this shortly. Self-hosting a WCF service in a Windows service is pretty easy. The key point is deriving the service class from ServiceBase class to implement the Windows service and implementing the service contract both together...

Back in September 2006 I wrote a CS Dev Guide post about emailing in Community Server 2.1 . In Community Server 2007 emailing has changed a lot and now we can consider it as something completely new. I can say that Ken Robertson has done a great job on enhancing email features in Community Server 2007 and thank to his additions, now emailing is extendable and you can customize emailing features easily. In this post I want to talk about emailing in Community Server 2007 which is now known as MailRoom...

As a part of my implementation of Google Safe Browsing API in Subkismet project, I was working on an XML provider to store data in XML files and load them later. One of approaches that I tried to test was using a DataSet to store my data as XML and load it from the file to a DataSet and generally building my provider based on XML manipulation features of DataSets. When working on this code, I got in a trouble that I write in this post with a solution for that even though I didn't keep using this...

Last week, I talked about SendActivity in Windows Workflow 3.5 and today talk about ReceiveActivity. This activity can be used in WCF services in order to listen for a specific service method and handle its logic in a workflow. ReceiveActivity can work as a container for other activities and hold them as part of method logic. It gets method parameters via properties or fields and sets the result of the method in a field or property. When service method is called by the client, it returns this field...

You know that the forum application in Community Server is the most powerful and important application in it. There are many features that make this application great and one of them is the rich set of moderation tasks provided for forum moderators and users. There are many moderation features that you can use in Community Server forums such as approving, deleting and moving a post or joining or splitting a thread. These are all coming from a set of API that will be covered in this post. There are...

Windows Workflow Foundation in .NET Framework 3.5 comes with two new activities: SendActivity and ReceiveActivity. These are two new services to work with WCF services. The first one, SendActivity, can be used to send requests to WCF services and the second one, ReceiveActivity, can be used to receive the response from services. In this post I talk about the SendActivity and in one of upcoming posts, I'll cover ReceiveActivity. Create a Service First, let me create a WCF service for this example...