New and Notable 246 – SOA and WCF Edition

Along with my series, I have a New and Notable. I have pretty much abandoned N&N in favor of writing original content, especially since Jason and Alvin, among others, are doing such a great job. However, these links go well with the series.

SOA/WCF

• So the biggest news is the beta publication of the patterns & practices WCF Security Guide. You can download the beta of the full security guide from CodePlex now. I can’t say enough good things about this. I did get to look at some of this in draft form and it’s am amazing work. The thing with WCF is that it supports so many security scenarios that it quickly becomes overwhelming. This real-world scenario based guide is an absolute must-have if you work with WCF, and you will after reading my series right?
• My good friend Nicholas Allen, from the Indigo team, wrote the Introduction
• The Managed Services Engine is a solution built on top of WCF to supply a repository-based runtime and management tool for service virtualization. You can get their new June CTP on CodePlex, which replaces the previous beta release from last October. [via Nick]
• I am doing a lot of work lately with the WCF Untyped Message class, and the underlying Transport and Channels, which I will be writing about. Christian has a nice short post about Accessing the message inside of your WCF service
• In that same area, Nick has a post about Building with Encoders
• And speaking of the series, my colleague in the Connected Systems practice writes Why do SOA projects succeed and why do some fail? This goes well with some of the points in my Part 6