However when I looked at the queue all the messages their priorities where 0 or “Lowest”. It seems to be because my queue is transactional (which is a requirement for the msmqintegrationbinding). It was a bit of a disappointment that I couldn’t control the priority using the native msmq features, but hey that’s the price I had to pay for some other great functionality.

This binding is especially to allow wcf services to process message that are put in a message queue by some legacy program. The advantage of this is that you can do this without the need to change the legacy client.

If you want more information on how to use this binding have a look at this post at Simon Evan’s blog

There was something I liked in particular and it was exactly what I was looking for; I’m working on a custom logging framework adapted to our needs. To keep it simple let’s say that a Log class sends messages using the fast netnamedpipebinding in wcf to a service. This works fine, but what when the service is unavailable? Well I’ve designed the Log class to automatically failover sending the message it would normally send to the service to a queue. This way I don’t lose any of the log messages. The advantage I mentioned above is that when I reset the service (launch it again) it automatically starts processing the messages (logs) in the queue as well as accepting new log messages using the named pipes. So this way I achieve our main priority: deliver the log messages as fast as possible, but without losing them when the service is down.

- turning off UAC
- Repairing Visual studio setup
- SubinAcl from the following blog: http://petesbloggerama.blogspot.com/2008/01/fix-requested-registry-access-is-not.html
- Running vs.net as administrator

I always get the following error message:

  Personally I really am starting to hate the whole silverlight technology. The first version was crap because you had to be some guru to be able to program something fancy looking and now the second version is out and the tools are crap. So what’s next crappy visual studio .net 2010 all together? I really would like the guys at MS to take it a bit slower so they can increase the quality of their products.

Now microsoft is testing a new piece of software (still in ctp) called Microsoft Secure Content Downloader:

The Microsoft Secure Content Downloader (MSCD) is a peer-assisted download manager capable of securely downloading specific files. MSCD is intended for consumers who are downloading from a home PC, or business users whose computers are not behind a corporate firewall. If you use MSCD from behind a corporate firewall, you may be unable to download content, and may adversely affect other clients’ ability to download content.
Main features of the MSCD are:

• Secure content description
  • Each file available for download has a secure description, ensuring the content you download is exactly what the publisher published.
• Scalable performance
  • MCSD is a peer-assisted technology. Each client downloads content by exchanging parts of the file they?re interested in with other clients, in addition to downloading parts from the server.
    • No matter how great the internet?s demand for the file, you will always be able to make progress downloading.
    • MSCD lets you download content more quickly than possible without peer assistance.