http://www.codingbliss.com/cb Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 09 Apr 2009 05:55:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en WCF now provides a way to avoid circular reference problems on serialization, which before required you to initialize the Data Contract Serializer with a KeepReferences setting. Another option was to cheat and use a NetDataContractSerializer which wasn't easier without cusotm behaviors or special code, now it is as simple as ... http://www.codingbliss.com/cb/?p=73 I came across interesting problems with WCF serialization specifically the DataContractSerializer and limitations of the runtime. Say you have a class like so [Serializable]     public class Service     {         public IList<Person> People         {             get; set;         }     }         [Serializable]     public class Person     {         public string Name         { get; set; }                 public ... http://www.codingbliss.com/cb/?p=70 I recently discovered an issue with WCF 3.5 SP1, specifically the error is "The caller was not authenticated by the service" System.ServiceModel.Security.SecurityNegotiationException was unhandled   Message="The caller was not authenticated by the service." My setup was using WSHttpBinding with message security, and it worked locally but not on a hosted machine in a ... http://www.codingbliss.com/cb/?p=66   This is a post about how to setup an SMTP relay on windows 2008 server(should work same on windows 2003 since Microsoft didn't update the SMTP console) to use a different mail server like gmail, or yahoo, or any email provider which offers an SMTP feature (currently i don't think ... http://www.codingbliss.com/cb/?p=38 To start things rolling, I am currently planning on migrating well designed code from J2EE world into the world of .NET and c#.  I'm looking forward to implementing and refactoring some code.  I expect to showcase some factories, visitors, and registry, provider.  Stay Tuned! http://www.codingbliss.com/cb/?p=6