I’m always looking for a more thoughtful presentation of current events than what you find coming from Washington DC politicians or their private sector parrots on talk radio, FOX News, MSNBC, etc.

I found three articles on Iran that, if they are not home runs, they at least put players in scoring position. 

Liberty and the Tehran Spring – Justin Raimondo
The Timid Emperor – Alan Bock
Is Barack Obama’s Realism Better than George W. Bush’s Idealism? – Ivan Eland

The following was swiped from Mad Props!

Often you have a ComboBox (or ListBox) whose items you want to "bind" to a list of values. In the world of .NET 2.0 we have this funky new generic Dictionary collection, but there's a trick to using it to bind. Here's the code:

var choices = new Dictionary<string, string>(); 
choices["A"] = "Arthur"; 
choices["F"] = "Ford"; 
choices["T"] = "Trillian"; 
choices["Z"] = "Zaphod"; 
comboBox1.DataSource = new BindingSource(choices, null); 
comboBox1.DisplayMember = "Value"; 
comboBox1.ValueMember = "Key"; 

Now you can set comboBox1.SelectedValue = "F" and it will display "Ford"! How cool is that?

I had this same problem with my first WCF service:

The maximum message size quota for incoming messages (65536) has been exceeded. To increase the quota, use the MaxReceivedMessageSize property on the appropriate binding element.

I changed the maxReceivedMessageSizein the app.config of the service’s consumer (the value was 65536):

<wsHttpBinding>
                <binding name="WSHttpBinding_IAtrSyncService" closeTimeout="00:01:00"
                    openTimeout="00:01:00" receiveTimeout="00:10:00" sendTimeout="00:01:00"
                    bypassProxyOnLocal="false" transactionFlow="false"
                    hostNameComparisonMode="StrongWildcard"
                    maxBufferPoolSize="524288" maxReceivedMessageSize="2147483647"
                    messageEncoding="Text" textEncoding="utf-8" useDefaultWebProxy="true"
                    allowCookies="false">

I’m trying to learn about Microsoft Sync Services for ADO.NET v2.0.  I want the client databases to talk to the server via a WCF service hosted on IIS.  I needed to get a quick background on creating a WCF web service.  Here are the resources that I have found helpful given that I had no background on the subject.

Sahil Malik’s WCF blog postings
http://blah.winsmarts.com/WCF.aspx

David Chappell’s document
http://cid-f15c15da8cece70f.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Public/Introducing%7C_WCF%7C_in%7C_NET%7C_Framework%7C_35%7C_v1.doc

Dan Wahlin’s screencast
http://weblogs.asp.net/dwahlin/archive/2007/02/03/video-creating-a-service-with-windows-communication-service-wcf.aspx

Chakkaradeep’s blog entry [New WCF Features in Visual Studio 2008]
http://www.geekzone.co.nz/vs2008/4653

Also helpful:
Configuring Internet Information Services 7.0 for Windows Communication Foundation
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb675150.aspx

“There’s no one on this earth – normal – who is going to buy three licenses of Windows [for the home].”
--Paul Thurrott : Windows Weekly #93

That’s why I run Ubuntu Linux on my secondary PC.