Month: October 2009

Hacking WCF Extensions for Visual Studio 2005

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If you are still using Visual Studio 2005 and need to develop WCF services you need the following: Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 Redistributable Package (SP2) The Visual Studio 2005 extensions for.NET Framework 3.0 (WCF & WPF), November 2006 CTP 3 The problem with the later is that Microsoft no longer supports it. Visual Studio 2008 … Read more

DotNetZip Library

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.NET 3.0 provides some support for working with ZIP files. However, it has an important drawback: it only works for packages that are conformant to the Open Packaging Convention standard. Most of the ZIP files are not. Codeplex features a library called DotNetZip that provides support for packing and unpacking in C#, VB.NET or any … Read more