The other day I faced a strange issue when I wanted to add a service reference to the Tech Head Brothers authoring tool. The code generated wasn’t compiling with errors located in the file Reference.cs.

Drilling down the issue I figured out that the default namespace, TechHeadBrothers.Word, was the issue. It was just added at some place and at other not.

In the following video I present the different features of the new authoring tool for my portal Tech Head Brothers.

First you will see the use of ClickOnce to enable easy installation on the author computer. This will also allow an easy update scenario. A great plus compared to the past.

This evening I took the time to implement a new step on the new version of Tech Head Brothers authoring tool.

Now I am able to write an article in Word 2007 and post it using Web Services.

For three night now I focused on one scenario for the Tech Head Brothers authoring tool:

• As an author I want to be able to copy source code from Visual Studio and insert it into the authored Word document Continue reading

I finally got time to go on with the new Tech Head Brothers publishing tool!

This time I wanted to go on with source code and I reached a quite good status.

This is a video demonstrating the offline usage of the Tech Head Brothers authoring tool.

The tool is using now WCF in place of WSE3 and works great with ASP.NET membership and role.

I just updated the source code of my Tech Head Brothers Authoring tool on Codeplex.

Now it uses Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) in place of WSE 3.0 and Word 2007.

I am currently working on the new Tech Head Brothers authoring tool THBAuthoring as you can read in this post ‘Migration from WSE 3 to WCF‘. Two days ago I went to production with the migration from WSE to WCF. Today I had to post an article about Linq written by Kader Yildirim and was quite optimistic that it will work because I followed as always the process of developing on my notebook, then deploying to staging, testing of staging and finally going to production. This time it didn’t work. I had a the following error:

“This collection already contains an address with scheme http. there can be at most one address per scheme in this collection.”

I started to migrate the Tech Head Brothers authoring tool and portal from Web Service Enhancement 3 (WSE 3) to Windows Communication Foundation (WCF). This is a next step in the integration of .NET Framework 3 in Tech Head Brothers portal.

Till today I was using WSE 3 from the Word VSTO solution to securely publish content to the portal directly out of Word 2003/2007.

What are the options when you need to integrate Windows legacy code in a heterogeneous Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)?

The proposed problem was to expose a set of Windows C++ DLLs to a global SOA platform written in Java. Those DLLs would be then exposed as backend computation services.