Author Archives: Wayne Barker

What is new in C# 6

So what is new in C# 6.0? I am documenting the new features in C# 6.0 simply to keep myself up to date and maybe someone else will also benefit.

This is a standards document that I drew up for a web services project that my team was working on. You will notice that the diagrams are done at a very high overview level. The document below can be viewed as my personal approach to how I prefered the UML diagrams to be done. Some of… Read More »

Explaining Waterfall

This blog post shows a YouTube video explaining the waterfall methodology.

Explaining Scrum

This blog post shows a YouTube video of Scrum.

The queue does not exist

“The queue does not exist or you do not have sufficient permissions” If you get the following error with MSMQ it might be that your MSMQ is not correctly installed or that you have not provided the correct permissions when the queues where created.

What does the WCF aspect programming provide?

WCF provides the following aspects as out of the box features. You as the software engineer simply need to enable and configure each of these. In some circumstances you get the benefit of these aspects without even knowing about it.

Integrate Ws-Federation into Asp.Net

A passive STS (IP-STS) is a website that issues a token and uses the browser to direct the flow of the application through redirects. The following example will be integrating a website with a passive STS that issues tokens using the WS-Federation standard. Click here if you wish to see how to create your own passive STS.

WIF Tracing \ Troubleshooting

I was having some issues today with a WS Federation implementation using a passive STS. I was logging onto the STS but when the browser redirected back to the client after a login, the client rejected the token and redirected me back to the STS again. There was no error message and after searching online… Read More »

Overview of a tiered application architecture

An approach to create physical division of activities as separate standalone processes called tiers. Tiers might contain multiple layers.

Troubleshoot WCF Security connectivity

Sometimes it can be a real nightmare to troubleshoot for what reason an application are unable to connect to WCF services. The client simply gets a “Connection refused”, “Connection aborted” or “Timeout” message back.

Overview of layered application architecture

Implies a division of responsibilities in logical components usually, presentation layer, business / domain layer & data Access layer within a single running process.

How to connect to your azure subscription account from powershell

Please see the article on how to install powershell on a azure virtual machine as a prerequisite to this article. This short article will demonstrate how to connect to your azure subscription from powershell.

How to install azure powershell on azure virtual machine

In the next few steps i will show how to install azure powershell on an azure virtual machine.

WCF Connection Test Utility

I wrote this wcf connection test utility because sometimes you need to configure and troubleshoot different service setups and just need a quick utility to answer the question is the service there and can you connect to it?