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CA – Pixar Animation Studios Tour
April 16, 2014 by Colin Solan
Filed under Animation, California, Movies, Other, Science Fiction and Fantasy, Signing and Appearance Profiles, Television
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The Cartoon Art Museum, the only museum in the western United States dedicated to all forms of cartoons and comics, is delighted to host its tenth annual benefit at Pixar Animation Studios on Saturday, May 17, 2014, from 2 to 8 p.m. Beginning with the 1986 release of its iconic short film Luxo Jr. to last year's box office hit Monsters University, Pixar has charmed the world with its incredible computer animated creations. This year, we welcome you to experience the magic of Pixar up close and personal at the studio's Emeryville home.
Guests may tour the studio's main gallery and view pre-production artwork from Monsters University. In addition, Pixar artists will be on hand conducting drawing demonstrations. You may purchase special Pixar apparel and merchandise at the Studio Store as well as bid on original and signed art by Pixar animators and other auction prizes. The event also features a 10th anniversary celebration of the Academy Award-winning feature The Incredibles with several of the film's creators in the studio's state-of-the-art theater hosted by Dr. Michael B. Johnson (Pixarian and CAM board member), who will lead a Q&A session with the filmmakers in the Steve Jobs Theater, including:
• Brad Bird, Writer & Director
• Mark Andrews, Head of Story
• Tony Fucile, Supervising Animator
• Andrew Jimenez, Director of Photography
• Ted Mathot, Storyboard Artist
• Kevin O'Brien, Storyboard Artist
Please note: Guests are confirmed, however, an unexpected cancellation is always possible.
The event also features light snacks, treats, and will conclude with a wine and dessert reception by the Luxo Cafe staff with a live auction of a variety of original art and signed memorabilia.
Tickets are $500 per person, $450 for members of the Cartoon Art Museum. (Become a museum member and save!)
Purchase one discounted ticket with a Senior/Student Membership, up to two with an Individual Membership, up to four with a Family Membership, up to six with a Friend Membership, and seven or more with a Patron, Sponsor and Benefactor Memberships.) Reserved rows for ten are available for $4,500. Availability for this level is limited.
Register for tickets at the link…
Doors open at 2 p.m. with the presentation starting at 4 p.m. in the Steve Jobs Theater.
Please note: The Cartoon Art Museum strives to create an enjoyable experience all attendees—given the nature of the theater presentation and the gracious donation of time by the presenters, we will maintain a zero-tolerance policy regarding disturbances during this portion of the program. Anyone causing a disruption (i.e. loud or crying children, talking outside of the Q&A portion, texting) will be given one warning. A second incident will result in the individual being asked to leave the studio. For this reason the presentation is not recommended for children under the age of four. Thank you for your understanding.
If you are visiting San Francisco and looking for a hotel, our partner the St. Regis Hotel, is offering a discounted rate for attendees of the event, click on the link for the discount offer.
Pixar Animation Studios is located in Emeryville, California. Free parking is available on site. For more information, call 415-227-8666, ext. 300. To purchase tickets online, visit cartoonart.org. Tickets will not be sold at the door. Tickets are transferable, but nonrefundable.
SF – Endless Night with Barron Storey
March 31, 2014 by Colin Solan
Filed under Art Show, California, Comic Books, Other, Science Fiction and Fantasy, Signing and Appearance Profiles
The Cartoon Art Museum concludes the public programming for its historic exhibition Grains of Sand: 25 Years of the Sandman with critically acclaimed artist Barron Storey on Saturday, April 12, 2014 from 7:00 till 9:00 pm. An illustrator, graphic novelist, and noted educator, Storey has created award-winning artworks for the covers and pages of Time, National Geographic, and Saturday Review, among others. The artist's paintings are held in the collections of the National Air and Space Museum, the American Museum of Natural History, and the National Portrait Gallery. Storey's published journals include Life After Black and The Marat/Sade Journals.
Storey will discuss his legendary artistic career, including his uniquely ongoing relationship with Despair that spun from his collaboration with Neil Gaiman on the award-winning graphic novel Sandman: Endless Nights, featuring Storey's stunning "Fifteen Portraits of Despair." Attendees will get an insider's look at Storey's Despair Journals on April 12.
Advance tickets can be purchased here: Admission is $10 for the general public, and free for Cartoon Art Museum members plus one guest.
Cartoon Art Museum
655 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94105
(415) 227-8666
SF – An Evening with J.H. Williams III
February 25, 2014 by Colin Solan
Filed under Art Show, California, Comic Books, Signing and Appearance Profiles
The Cartoon Art Museum welcomes acclaimed artist J.H. Williams III for its ongoing celebration of the 25th anniversary of Neil Gaiman's Sandman. This special presentation will be held on Saturday, March 15, 2014 from 7:00 to 9:00pm. Williams will talk about his process on Sandman: Overture and will discuss his experiences working on this historic book, as well as giving us a glimpse into the future. Original artwork from the first two issues of Sandman: Overture will be on display as the Cartoon Art Museum approaches the finale of its Sandman retrospective Grains of Sand, which will be held over through April 27, 2014.
A limited number of VIP tickets are available for a pre-event dinner with JH Williams III. VIPs will get priority seating at the Cartoon Art Museum presentation, front-of-line privileges at the post-presentation booksigning, and a Sandman sketch from JH on the book or item of their choosing. This option is limited to six guests and is available for $200. (Time and location to be determined; guests will pay for their own meals.)
Ticket details to be announced very soon!
Cartoon Art Museum
655 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94105
SF – This Modern World Signing
February 24, 2014 by Colin Solan
Filed under California, Comic Books, Comic Strips, Signing and Appearance Profiles
The Cartoon Art Museum welcomes back Tom Tomorrow, award winning creator of This Modern World, for his first Bay Area appearance in eight years as he discusses 25 years of alt-weekly cartooning, adventures in animation and collaborations with rock stars. This presentation takes place on Tuesday, March 11, 2014 from 7:00 to 9:00pm. General admission for this event is $5, and free for Cartoon Art Museum members.
Advance tickets can be purchased here…
A special guest appearance by one of San Francisco's legendary Doggie Diner heads is also in the works for this unforgettable evening. Stay tuned to our website for details.
Tom Tomorrow (Dan Perkins) lives outside of New Haven, Connecticut with his wife and son. His weekly cartoon, This Modern World, appears in approximately 80 papers across the country, including the Village Voice, the San Francisco Bay Guardian, and the Pittsburgh Post Gazette, and online at sites such as TheNation.com and DailyKos.com. His cartoons have also been featured in New York Times, The New Yorker, The Nation, U.S. News & World Report, Esquire, The Economist, and numerous other publications.
In April 2013, he was awarded the prestigious Herblock Prize.
He is also a recipient of the first place Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for Cartooning in 1998 and again in 2003. He has also been awarded the first place Media Alliance Meritorious Achievement Award for Excellence in Journalism, the first place Society of Professional Journalists' James Madison Freedom of Information Award, the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism, and the Association for Education in Journalism Professional Freedom and Responsiblity Award.
He is the author of ten cartoon anthologies and one children's book, and in 2009 collaborated with the band Pearl Jam to create the artwork for their album, Backspacer. Most recently, he contributed an introduction to the 21st volume of Fantagraphics' Complete Peanuts series.
Cartoon Art Museum
655 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94105
SF – The Illustrated James Bond 007
February 21, 2014 by Colin Solan
Filed under Art Show, Comic Books, Comic Strips, Other, Signing and Appearance Profiles
Comedian and cartoonist MIKE CAPOZZOLA and special guest ALAN J. PORTER, author of James Bond: The History of The Illustrated 007, appear with RON EVANS, Cartoon Art Museum board chairman, on Saturday, March 1, 2014 at 7:30 pm for a discussion and slideshow of the James Bond comics and newspaper strips from around the world.
The evening also includes:
-Vintage memorabilia!
-Virtual appearances via SKYPE with Special Guests!
-Sudden and unexpected PRIZES
-Cocktails (yes- it will be THAT drink- and you can order it using any accent you want)
Admission $007
Special thanks to the St. Regis Hotel for partnering with the Cartoon Art museum on this event.
Cocktails by kind donation of Bluecoat, American Dry Gin.
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655 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94105
SF – Searle In America Exhibition
January 25, 2014 by Colin Solan
Filed under Animation, Art Show, California, Comic Strips, Movies, Other, Signing and Appearance Profiles
The Cartoon Art Museum celebrates the life and art of Ronald Searle with Aardman/Pixar story artist Matt Jones, a lifelong Searle fan and longtime publisher of the Ronald Searle Tribute blog, with a special presentation on Saturday, February 22, 2014, from 6:00-9:00pm. Jones will discuss Searle's artwork and his legacy, and will discuss his forthcoming Searle-related projects during a slideshow presentation at 7:00pm. Searle fans will have the opportunity to view the exhibition prior to Jones's lecture, and a catalog signing will immediately follow his presentation.
Tickets for this reception are $10, and Cartoon Art Museum members will receive free admission for themselves and a guest. The deluxe ticket package is $30, and includes the full-color 96-page catalog featuring all of the Ronald Searle artwork featured in the Searle in America exhibition as well as dozens of Searle tribute pieces rendered by today's top animators and illustrators. Advance sale tickets can be purchased here…
Matt Jones's Curatorial Statement:
"Ronald Searle is known primarily as the creator of the wicked schoolgirls of St. Trinians and later his series of humorous books on cats and their foibles. The general public in the U.K., Europe and the U.S. hold these books dear, but to the artist they were merely 'what sold' and paid the bills. He even 'killed off' the St. Trinians' girls in their last book in 1957; the year of his first visit to America. A household name in Great Britain, Searle would crack the American magazine illustration market under the guidance of his New York art agent, John Locke.
"He spent over a decade between the late '50s and late '60s traveling extensively on reportage assignments for the premier magazines of the day: Life, Holiday, Look, Venture, Travel & Leisure. It was a golden era of illustration, where magazines had sizable budgets to send illustrators to exotic locations and commission
substantial spreads of artwork.
"Sadly, this work is largely forgotten. Holiday magazine was not published in Europe and is virtually unheard of in the U.S., slipping into decline in the late '70s. Searle republished some of this work in collected editions, but the books are long out of print. The original art has languished with art editors and agents for decades, and most remain unseen since their first publication.
"Well I've found it! I've unearthed the lot. I've maintained a website devoted to Searle's work since 2006 and even became acquainted with the artist himself while working in the south of France in the years preceding his death. Initially starting out of a love of his work and a desire to see more of it online, the site has become an essential database of an incredible career spanning eight decades!
"I've traveled far and wide myself to track down the originals, and this show at CAM gathers some of the best. From collections in the Midwest, New York, Connecticut and California, I've assembled a show revealing my favorite era in Searle's career. The golden period of 1955-1965 was a decade of intense work and travel, and the art has a vitality and urgency to it energised by the artist being constantly on the go. The work is a synthesis of his acute observational style and his ability to caricature figures, crowds and architecture. Most of the work is in full color, which will be a surprise to those only familiar with his monotone cats and schoolgirls.
"This catalogue is laid out in an unorthodox manner. I wanted to present the work uncropped where possible without it being split across two pages; hence the dual portrait/landscape format.
"The show would not have been possible without the contributions of a group of cartoonist friends around the world who contributed original art to an online auction to raise the funding necessary to stage the Exhibition and put this catalogue together. This is dedicated to them, to all Searle fans and to new fans who will discover this part of his oeuvre for the first time."
-Matt Jones, San Francisco, September 2013
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655 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94105
SF – Sanjay and Craig Panel
January 22, 2014 by Colin Solan
Filed under Animation, California, Movies, Other, Signing and Appearance Profiles, Television, Video Games
Chris Hardwick (Craig), Maulik Pancholy (Sanjay), Matt Jones (Hector), John DiMaggio (Penny Pepper), Nolan North (Huggle Bunny) and more appear on Saturday, February 8th, 2014 at 11:00 am at Kanbar Hall at the JCCSF!
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SF Sketchfest brings the Nickelodeon animated series "Sanjay and Craig" home to the city where it was created. For the first time ever, the rad-awesome stars of the show will perform an episode in front of an audience, accompanied by clips from the series. Following the performance will be a Q&A with the cast and creators, and the world premiere of a brand new "Sanjay and Craig" episode. All children, doom babies, chicken wing eaters and talking snakes welcome!
Scheduled to appear: Chris Hardwick (Craig), Maulik Pancholy (Sanjay), Matt Jones (Hector), John DiMaggio (Penny Pepper), Nolan North (Huggle Bunny) and more.
Due to a change in his shooting schedule, Tony Hale will not be appearing as previously announced.
Co-presented by the Cartoon Art Museum & JCCSF
Jewish Community Center of San Francisco
3200 California Street, San Francisco, CA 94118
SF – Sam & Max: A Look Back Exhibit
January 13, 2014 by Colin Solan
Filed under Animation, California, Comic Books, Comic Strips, Other, Signing and Appearance Profiles, Television, Video Games
The Cartoon Art Museum is pleased to present Sam and Max: A Look Back with Steve Purcell, celebrating 26-ish years with the intrepid Freelance Police on Saturday, February 1, 2014 with a series of special events from 4:00-9:00pm.
The first event will be a booksigning from 4:00-5:00pm at the Cartoon Art Museum bookstore. Purcell will sign copies of The Collected Sam & Max: Surfin' the Highway at the Cartoon Art Museum bookstore. This event is free and open to the public.
The second event will be a guided tour of the exhibition from 6:00-7:00pm. Sam & Max creator Steve Purcell will conduct a private tour of his Cartoon Art Museum retrospective Swift and Mirthful Justice for a limited number of guests. This ticketed event is $20; CAM members will receive two-for-one admission to this event.
The third event is a reception celebrating Sam & Max from 7:00-9:00pm. Guests can meet Steve Purcell and discuss his work, view the Sam & Max exhibition, and check out the Cartoon Art Museum's other current exhibitions, Grains of Sand: 25 Years of The Sandman and Searle In America, featuring the phenomenal illustrations of famed British cartoonist Ronald Searle. Admission to this reception is $5; CAM members will receive two-for-one admission for this event. Purcell will sign additional books and prints throughout the reception. Please note that the ticket for the guided tour also includes access to the reception that follows.
Tickets for the guided tour and the reception are available through this link, and will also be sold at the Cartoon Art Museum's admissions desk.
Cartoon Art Museum
655 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94105
SF – Sandman: The Worlds' End
January 5, 2014 by Colin Solan
Filed under Art Show, California, Comic Books, Signing and Appearance Profiles
The Cartoon Art Museum welcomes artists Gary Amaro and Steve Leialoha for its ongoing celebration of the 25th anniversary of Neil Gaiman's Sandman. This special presentation will be held on Thursday, January 23 from 7:00 to 9:00pm.
In 1993, Neil Gaiman embarked upon one of the most ambitious Sandman storylines with Worlds' End. Reminiscent of Chaucer's legendary Canterbury Tales, THE SANDMAN: WORLDS' END is a wonderful potpourri of engrossing tales and masterly storytelling. Improbably caught in a June blizzard, two wayward compatriots stumble upon a mysterious inn and learn that they are in the middle of a "reality storm." Now surrounded by a menagerie of people and creatures from different times and realities, the two stranded travelers are entertained by mesmerizing myths of infamous sea creatures, dreaming cities, ancient kings, astonishing funeral rituals and moralistic hangmen.
To fully realize the different realities depicted in this storyline, Gaiman selected several of his favorite artists and tailored stories specifically to their talents. Artists Bryan Talbot and Mark Buckingham illustrated the framing sequence, and pencilers and inkers from A to Z (Allred to Zulli) rendered the six different reality-spanning tales authored by Gaiman. Gary Amaro and Steve Leialoha both contributed to the final issue of Worlds' End, with Amaro's story foreshadowing the series' conclusion.
Amaro and Leialoha will discuss their collaborations with Neil Gaiman on this classic Sandman story, as well as their other work for DC Comics' Vertigo imprint. The two artists will collaborate on a limited print for VIP ticket buyers, available as an attendees-only exclusive.
Tickets for this event will be sold on a sliding scale, and can be purchased here…
General Admission: $10.00 (Cartoon Art Museum members will receive two-for-one admission and an exclusive print). VIP Admission is $25 and includes an exclusive print created for the event by Gary Amaro and Steve Leialoha.
Cartoon Art Museum
655 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94105
SF – Sandman Art Exhibition
November 29, 2013 by Colin Solan
Filed under California, Comic Books, Signing and Appearance Profiles
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The Cartoon Art Museum welcomes artist Mike Dringenberg to San Francisco for its ongoing celebration of the 25th anniversary of Neil Gaiman's Sandman.
Mike Dringenberg inked the first issues of Sandman, which were penciled by Sam Kieth. When Kieth left the book, Dringenberg took over as penciler, illustrating some of the series' most memorable issues, designing several major characters, and setting the artistic tone for the book with his understated, realistic style. The most notable issue of Dringenberg's tenure was the eighth issue of Sandman, "The Sound of Her Wings," which introduced the Sandman's sister, Death. Dringenberg also created what is perhaps the most widely seen Sandman illustration of all, a poster depicting The Endless, which was prominently featured in the popular TV program Roseanne, adorning Darlene Conner's bedroom in the early 1990s.
On Saturday, December 14, Dringenberg will discuss his tenure on Sandman with Ryan Graff, co-curator of the Cartoon Art Museum's Sandman retrospective Grains of Sand and designer of the museum's forthcoming Sandman exhibition catalog. Although the catalog will not yet be available for purchase, the Cartoon Art Museum will offer a limited edition original bookplate penciled by Mike Dringenberg, inked by Sam Kieth, and signed by both artists as a special keepsake of this historic exhibition.
Tickets for this event will be sold on a sliding scale, and can be purchased at the link!
General Admission*: $25.00
General Admission plus Mike Dringenberg & Sam Kieth bookplate*: $50.00
General Admission, bookplate, plus two additional personalized signatures: $100.00 (Limited to 30 guests. Please note that Mike Dringenberg will not sign any unpersonalized items, and will not sign any CGC-graded books.)
General Admission, bookplate, two signatures, plus dinner with Mike Dringenberg: $300 (Limited to four guests. Join Mike Dringenberg, Ryan Graff, and other Sandman fans and original art collectors for a dinner prior to the Cartoon Art Museum event at a nearby restaurant.)
*Cartoon Art Museum members will be able to bring an additional guest for free at the $25, $50 and $100 levels. Members who purchase tickets at the $50 level will receive two bookplates. Limit two signatures per ticket purchased at the $100 and $250 levels.
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Our unique collection of artefacts, presents an insight into the history of the Port of Padstow over the past two centuries.
This small but interesting museum is situated just 20 metres from the harbour side in the port of Padstow on the North Cornish Coast.
Why not visit us for a glimpse back to the past centuries. What do you know about those times?.
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Padstow is an important fishing port and harbour of refuge on the North Coast of Cornwall, a haven for many visiting yachtsmen .
It was from here that many Cornishmen and their families embarked for a new life in the North America after the collapse of the Cornish Tin mining industry.
Padstow probably best known for its celebration of the coming of Summer with its Obby - Oss festivities on the 1st May each year, this being well documented in the Museum archives.
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Like Talkalakh, Daraa was sealed off in recent weeks as the military unleashed a deadly siege, sending in troops backed by tanks and snipers to crush the heart of the rebellion. Daraa is the city where the uprising began, touched off by the arrest of teenagers who scrawled anti-regime graffiti on a wall.
A resident of Inkhil told the AP on Monday there were more than 70 tanks in the village and that two hospitals in the area were taken over by security forces.
A similar tactic was used in another brutal crackdown on protesters in the region, in Bahrain. International rights groups have said Bahrain targeted medical professionals who treated injured demonstrators.
"The gunfire never stops," the Inkhil resident said on condition of anonymity.
Munira Ahmad, who fled Talkalakh with her four daughters, said she had no choice but to run.
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The overall feel of this hotel is not on par with the other Firmdale properties we've stayed at (Number 16, Dorset Square, Charlotte St). The service was a bit lacking, also, with the staff at breakfast bringing the wrong food order and generally seeming disorganized. Speaking of breakfast, the english breakfast was terrible, with undercooked sausage and very suspect looking black pudding. Our room wasn't ready on time, and we were twice told it would be ready within a certain time, but on each occasion had to wait longer. At one point the reason we were given for the delay was that one of the drawers had a broken knob, which seemed lame but turned out to be true. Although it wasn't fixed when we got into the room, so I'm not sure why it caused a delay in the first place!
- Michael
- Stayed October 2014
- Rating: Excellent
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What the hotel could do better:
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- Mark
- Stayed August 2014
- Rating: Excellent
What I liked:
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This post is part of a series about WCF extensibility points. For a list of all previous posts and planned future ones, go to the index page.
Now that we're done with serialization, let's get back to the service portion of the series. This post and the next ones will deal with metadata export (and import), which is the process by which a service describes itself so that other tools can consume that description and create a proxy class which can talk to that service. WCF has out-of-the-box metadata capabilities – in order to expose metadata from a service we simply add the ServiceMetadataBehavior to the service and set one property or add a specific metadata endpoint , and to consume metadata from other services and create a proxy we have two tools for that: svcutil.exe and Add Service Reference (and some APIs to let you write your own tool, mostly centered around the MetadataExchangeClient and ServiceContractGenerator classes.
But, with almost everything in WCF, there are many ways to tinker with that process. During export, we can add an export extension which is called and lets us change what metadata the service will expose to the world. And during import, we can hook into the metadata import process and change how the metadata will be converted into the code DOM which will then be used to create the proxy class. This post will cover the first part (export extension) and I'll leave the import extension for the next week.
Hooking up to the WSDL Export pipeline in WCF means getting to work with many of the classes on the "old" System.Web.Services.Description namespace (legacy from the ASMX days). A little different than the "description" classes in WCF, but nothing extraordinary. The main interface for this scenario is the IWsdlExportExtension, and unlike most of the other extensibility points, there's no place to "set" the WSDL export extension – as long as a class which implements one of the contract, endpoint or operation behavior interfaces (IContractBehavior, IEndpointBehavior, or IOperationBehavior – if used with an IServiceBehavior it's ignored) also implements IWsdlExportExtension (and the behavior is added to the description), the export extension will be used. A binding element class can also implement IWsdlExportExtension, and it will be used as well.
The method ExportContract is the first to be called. It's called first on contract behaviors, then on operation behaviors. When the method is called for the contract, the exporter still doesn't have all the detailed information about the operations; when it's called for the individual operations, information such as the operation messages, message parts and the expected schema for the parts. Then ExportEndpoint is called, first on endpoint behaviors, then on binding elements, then on contract behaviors and finally on operation behaviors. When it's called for the endpoint, besides all the contract information from ExportContract, this time there is already some information about the endpoint binding and policy assertions coming from the specific binding elements. The call to the binding element have any additional policies exported by IPolicyExportExtension implementations. At the call in the contract behavior, the information is augmented with the detailed address information of the endpoint, including any identity information. Finally, at each operation behavior, ExportEndpoint is called with additional details about the operation itself, including the SOAP use and the SOAP action.
This isn't very easy to explain, so I added in the code in this post (in the gallery) linked below a small program which prints out the metadata passed to the exporter at each individual step; it will dump the metadata as XML files, and you can use a tool such as windiff to compare those files.
There are quite a lot of classes in WCF which implement the IWsdlExportExtension interface, including all transport and message encoding binding elements, and the serializer operation behaviors (DataContractSerializerOperationBehavior and XmlSerializerOperationBehavior, since they determine the schema of the input / output of the operations). I won't list them all here since the behaviors have been talked about in the post about operation behaviors, and the encoding / transport binding elements will be covered on the posts about transports and message encodings.
As I mentioned before, as long as an endpoint, contract, operation behavior or binding element class also implements IWsdlExportExtension, the metadata system will pick up that extension. The code below shows an example of a contract inspector which, if added to an endpoint contract, will cause the export extension methods to be called when the service metadata is being generated.
This came from stack overflow: the user has a service which is used by many clients out of their control. Some operations, however, didn't make sense for them, so they wanted to deprecate those operations, preventing new clients from using them. But they also didn't want to break existing clients, so they couldn't simply remove the operations. The request on the post was to have some sort of attribute which would remove the operation from the metadata, but not from the runtime. This already exists for whole contracts (using the ServiceMetadataContractBehavior), but not for individual operations, so I decided to write a sample which does exactly that.
First some operations to start. I'm not really creative today, so I'll just use the calculator contract with the normal arithmetic operations (add, subtract, multiply, divide). But after a while, we decide that the Multiply and Divide operations were not as profitable for our business, so we want to gradually discontinue it. In order to do that, I'll use some attributes marking the operations as deprecated. I'll also add an attribute to the contract itself, which is the one which will act as a WSDL export extension and remove the deprecated operations from the service metadata.
And before moving on, the usual disclaimer: this is a sample for illustrating the topic of this post, this is not production-ready code. I tested it for a few contracts and it worked, but I cannot guarantee that it will work for all scenarios (please let me know if you find a bug or something missing). One issue that I know is that this sample removes the operations from the WSDL, but if the operations used some custom (composite) type, the schema for those types is still listed in the metadata (an improvement for the sample if anyone wants to try to do it).
Now for the attributes mentioned above. The DeprecatedOperationAttribute doesn't have anything, it's only a marker.
The WSDL export extension is more interesting. As I mentioned before, it needs to be either an operation/contract/endpoint behavior or a binding element, in this case I'm using a contract behavior. In many cases the methods for the IContractBehavior interface are left unimplemented, but in this case we'll use the ApplyDispatchBehavior to collect the list of all deprecated operations, which will be later removed from the metadata when it's requested.
Now for the implementation of the methods in IWsdlExportExtension. Since the code will remove all of the operations at once, I decided to implement it on ExportEndpoint. The outline of the implementation shouldn't be hard to follow.
The service description object contains many internal links, and as we start removing the operations from all places where they appear, we store their references in other locations to remove later. For example, the port types in WSDL list the possible messages which can be sent / received for each operation, and those messages are further detailed in the messages section. This is shown in the excerpt below. It loops through all the operations in the services port types, removing those which are marked as obsolete. And for those operations, we store the messages which are supposed to be removed in the other part of the WSDL.
We do something similar for the bindings – iterate through the WSDL bindings, and remove each deprecated operation inside the binding, and store the policy references to be removed later.
Removing the messages is trivial, just iterate through the WSDL messages and remove those marked for deletion (I'll skip the code here, it's on the code link at the end of this post). For removing operation policies, since they're stored as extensions in the WSDL (instead of first-class objects), we need to look at their XML properties to find them out. The code below shows that method.
And that's it. Now it's time to test the implementation. The code below starts up the service, and calls one of the deprecated operations – it still works fine.
But when we use svcutil.exe to generate the client for it, the client doesn't have that operation:
And that's it for WSDL export extensions.
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The district administration in association with the department of information and public relations and the education department has made elaborate preparations to fulfil the project effectively. Sensitization campaigns among student communities as well as the general public have also been planned to drive home the message against plastic waste.
The entire students from schools in the corporation limits, selected representatives of students from schools outside the corporation limits, besides teachers and cultural leaders from the district will participate in the launching ceremony of the project.
Screening of documentaries, dance and music programme by lyricist Kaidapram Damodaran Namboothiri and talks by environmentalists and cultural leaders will be some of the major attraction of the launch ceremony.
A 16-foot sculpture made out of different types of plastic wastes by 10 sculptors at the beach will also be unveiled during the function. The first phase of MAP comprises large scale awareness and sensitisation programme, mainly aimed at students of various educational institutions, including 1,500 schools and nearly 50 colleges in the district. "Resource Recovery Centres to collect plastic waste will be set up in all schools in the first phase," said Mr. Salim. Plastic waste will be collected from the schools in a vehicle on a weekly basis.
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Surely you thought that partisan posturing by far-right Congress critters couldn't get any nuttier. But here comes the GOP's claim that all the talk about impeaching President Barack Obama is being led by…Barack Obama!
Having discovered that the larger public is appalled that his party would even consider wasting time on such extremist nonsense, House Speaker John Boehner tried to do a political back flip.
On July 23, Dr. Kent Brantly woke up with a fever. He immediately quarantined himself, and three days later a test confirmed his nightmare. He had the Ebola virus.
Brantly, 33, emailed a friend and said that he was "terrified," for he knew better than anyone the horror of the virus. He had been treating patients in West Africa with it for many weeks, watching as they vomited, hemorrhaged internally and sometimes bled from multiple orifices - then weakened and died.
Judging by the way he holds his cards so close to his vest, President Obama must be an awfully good poker player. Here we are halfway through his second term, and few observers can claim to know with any precision exactly what he thinks about critical matters of war and peace.
Or what he might do if push came to shove, an eventuality he appears entirely determined to avoid.
After leaders from more than 40 African countries gathered for President Obama's historic summit, we should not forget that free speech and a free press are economic development issues, too.
The CIA now admits that it spied on a Senate investigation into the agency's shameful program of secret detention and torture. Do we need any more proof that the spooks are out of control?
An internal "accountability board" will look into the incident, an agency statement said, and might recommend "potential disciplinary measures" or even "steps to address systemic issues."
Somehow, I don't feel reassured.
Scotland's referendum on whether to split from Britain is a bit more than six weeks away. The battle for the hearts, minds and votes of the undecided, sufficiently numerous to be decisive, is being fought with a mixture of payola and scaremongering unbecoming of such a momentous decision.
Romance, designer gowns, lavish parties, fast cars, private jets and lakeside mansions.
The federal trial of former Gov. Bob McDonnell of Virginia and his first lady on corruption charges features all that and more. If you're headed to the beach, the transcript makes for riveting reading.
At 6:02 a.m. Saturday, the air raid siren sounded over Tel Aviv. I was rousted by the hotel staff from my room and ushered into the windowless service elevator area with two French families, everyone in their pajamas. After 10 minutes, when the Hamas missile threat had passed, we were allowed to go back to our rooms. As I slipped back into bed, the hotel loudspeaker bellowed, "Dear guests, you may return to your routine."
"Rarely has a president been confronted with so many seemingly disparate foreign policy crises all at once," The New York Times noted about Obama on July 23. What the paper didn't/won't/can't say is: Rarely has a president caused so many of his own crises.
This summer, most of Obama's problems follow from his unwillingness to respect democracy overseas.
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Bills WR Stevie Johnson nursing groin injury
The hat Stevie Johnson wore had the word ''Blah!'' written on it, and yet the Buffalo Bills receiver was a little more upbeat in discussing a groin injury that prevented him from practicing Thursday.
''I'm expected to play, and I'll do everything I've got to do in the training room to be out there,'' Johnson said, referring to his expectations of playing in the season opener at the New York Jets on Sunday.
Though saying he can't divulge too much about the injury, Johnson said he is fully prepared to return to practice on Friday.
Johnson said the injury happened during practice Wednesday, and added that it's something he expected to occur occasionally after having surgery in May to repair a groin injury that nagged him for much of last season.
Johnson also complained of stiffness in his groin during training camp.
He didn't consider this a setback, and doesn't expect to have to deal with lingering pain throughout the season as he did last year.
''It'll definitely be gone, and nothing we should really have too much to worry about,'' Johnson said.
Johnson's status is a prime concern for Buffalo, because he is the team's leading receiver and expected to play a critical role in Buffalo's multi-pronged passing attack. He led the Bills with seven touchdowns and 1,004 yards receiving to become the franchise's first player to surpass the 1,000-yard receiving mark in consecutive seasons.
He also faces a daunting test against the Jets, when he'll likely be matched up against Darrelle Revis, one of the NFL's top cornerbacks. Johnson had success against Revis in two losses last year, combining for 11 catches for 159 yards and a touchdown.
Bills coach Chan Gailey was cautiously optimistic that Johnson would be able to play Sunday.
''A guy doesn't practice on Thursday, there's always concern, but I think it's going to be OK,'' he said. ''He could've gone out there today, but we kept him in.''
After riding a stationary bike before practice began, Johnson stood by and watched as receivers took part in individual drills during the portion open to reporters.
In other injury news, starting right guard Kraig Urbik (back) practiced on a limited basis after missing the session Wednesday.
Rookie cornerback Ron Brooks was on crutches and had his broken right foot in a cast in making his first appearance in the locker room since having surgery last week. Brooks was placed on short-term injured reserve on Tuesday, meaning he'll be eligible to begin practicing in six weeks.
Brooks, the second of Buffalo's two fourth-round draft picks, didn't have a timetable for how long it might take him to recover.
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Expanding Leadership and Influence through Mobile Platform
NovoLogic develop a unique and innovative Leadership Community Portal for Chick-fil-A. the portal leverage browser and mobile platforms to allow Chick-fil-A's 1000+ operators and 1400+ store managers and tream leaders to share best practices, implement those practices as well as access content for personal and team leadership growth.
- The ExChange is an enhanced version of the previously developed SERVE Leadership portal
- In the inital two weeks the site launched, The ExChange has generated 6,794 site visits
- 25% of the visits were from mobile devices.
- Over 48,000+ page views
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ING Introduces Dynamic Spanish-Language Life Insurance Education Web Site Site aims to demystify life insurance and improve outreach to greatly underserved U.S. Hispanic market
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In 2005, ING US Insurance embarked on a strategy to expand its sales of individual term life insurance to the US middle market. Many Americans don't have either any or enough life insurance coverage because it can be intimidating for prospects to understand, requiring them to talk to an agent. To make a low-cost term life policy sale a viable business opportunity for the independent agent channel it relies on for sales, ING built a highly engaging online tool, ING For Life, to engage, educate, and even entertain the visitor; make the insurance purchase less daunting; and drive better-qualified leads to the critical agent channel.
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The decoration, number 2800, consists of a large, hand-painted flower, perhaps a morning glory, in blue.
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President Obama has called for changing the depreciation schedule for newly aquired non-commercial aircraft from five to seven years. Jay Carney, the president's press secretary calls the current two-year schedule difference a special tax loophole. As you might imagine, this has pushed the aviation alphabet groups into damage control mode.
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Subject: General Tech | August 10, 2006 - 05:09 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Virtual-Hideout reviews Corepad's entire lineup, including a choice of many mats, low friction mouse feet and even wax. Get them all together, you may have no choice but to watch your gaming experience improve.
"Corepad has a really solid line up of products that are sure to meet everyone's needs, one way or
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While AMD goes shopping, Intel exposes it's drivers
Subject: General Tech | August 10, 2006 - 11:42 AM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Intel will be making upcoming video drivers open source. While this move may not be as extreme as running out and purchasing nVIDIA, it makes Intel systems very attractive to those who run Linux and other open source OSs.
XM Radio on the go, no antenna needed
Subject: General Tech | August 9, 2006 - 04:55 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Digital Trends reviews the Pioneer Inno, a portable XM radio receiver/player, that can also interface with Napster. It's about the size of a deck of cards, and masses 4.5 ounces, with a brushed aluminium finish. If you are hooked on XM, you may not be able to live without this little device.
"XM Radio junkies have another enabler for their obsession with their favorite satellite programs,
with the new Pioneer Inno portable XM Radio player."
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Eicon Networks to Purchase Intel's Media and Signaling Business
Subject: General Tech | August 9, 2006 - 04:46 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug. 9, 2006
Eicon Networks Corporation ("Eicon") and Intel Corporation
today announced that they have signed an agreement for Intel to sell
the assets of its media and signaling business to Eicon.
Modern tech envious of past artist's creations
Subject: General Tech | August 9, 2006 - 11:31 AM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Quantum computing promises it will be the next big thing in the computer world. There are still many obstacles between the concept of one, and actually creating a useful quantum logic gate or processor, but another step has been taken. CNET reports on an green paint created in Sweden, circa 1870, that may be a huge step forward in figuring out quantum computing, and spintronics.
Intel Teams With Top Universities for Software-Related Research
Subject: General Tech | August 8, 2006 - 12:02 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug. 7, 2006 — Intel Corporation today announced a global effort to prepare university students for a new paradigm of software development as Intel transitions its processors from single-processor engines to ones that will have multiple cores and threads.
What happened after Microsoft took a little blue pill
Subject: General Tech | August 8, 2006 - 11:44 AM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Slashdot has put together several links covering the results of Microsofts invitation for "black hat hackers" to take a poke at Vista's security. It could spell a more open mindset at Microsoft, at least during betas, on the benefits of listening to that particular crowd.
Prey makes it to the Xbox360
Subject: General Tech | August 4, 2006 - 11:36 AM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Prey has made it to a console that wasn't even a twinkle in Microsoft's eye, when the original programming was done. Drop by [H]ard|OCP to see how well it made the transition from PC to console.
"Over a decade in development, Prey's innovative portal technology and unique game play finally land
on the Xbox 360. Today, we step through the portal and see where Prey will take us."
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Giving VoIP a hard time in the name of security
Subject: General Tech | August 3, 2006 - 11:59 AM | Jeremy Hellstrom
CNET reports on the goings on at the Black Hat conference. Yesterday tools to test the security of VoIP were discussed, and handed out. Read about the kinds of vulnerabilities VoIP has, before you go out and switch.
Perhaps they heard about someone wielding a cluebat
Subject: General Tech | August 2, 2006 - 05:21 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
EMI, Vivendi and BMG have recently started experimenting with the new fangled internets in a way to make money by selling customers what they want. Drop by eCoustics to see what they are trying, and some good places to go to buy albums and songs.
Hard drive with serious theft deterrent built in
Subject: General Tech | August 2, 2006 - 02:43 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
In the old days, if we dropped a hard drive we didn't worry about us killing it ... we worried about it killing us ... kids these days and their 2.5" harddrives.
"What is 340MB, weighs 85lbs and cost almost $18,000 when it was new? Here's a few pictures from [H]
reader extraordinaire, JLangejans, to help you figure it out."
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Smile at a Mac user
Subject: General Tech | August 2, 2006 - 12:27 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
On this day of the 286, CNet reports 26 Mac OS flaws have just been fixed, including remote code execution vulnerabilites. Add to that the Macbook Pro issues [H] links to, and it's not a good day to be a Mac fanatic.
Stop laughing! It IS a real mouse
Subject: General Tech | August 1, 2006 - 04:23 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
In the search for a better mouse, many odd shapes and designs have been considered, in the hopes of banishing RSS and carpal back to the tennis courts and assembly lines, where they belong. Extremetech will not give up until they find the newest mouse, in this case the "Zero Tension Mouse" which looks like ...
well ... umm....
Go look for yourself, I'm not going to say it.
Intel Announces NOR Flash Memory Products for Emerging Low-Cost Handset Segment
Subject: General Tech | August 1, 2006 - 02:07 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug. 1, 2006 —
Intel Corporation today introduced its first NOR flash memory products
aimed at the emerging low-cost cell phone segment. The new products
have a new pin sharing package to minimize pin count and are configured
to work with low-cost, single-chip baseband and RF solutions from
leading chipset suppliers.
A super way to re-encode your day
Subject: General Tech | August 1, 2006 - 12:23 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
To Linux users, ffmpeg is probably a program you have heard of, but not if you are a Windows user only. That is all about to change, The Inquirer has spotted Super, a FOSS video converter able to change files from any one codec to another. Check this out before you go nuts from re-encoding files 8 times before getting it in the format you want.
Previous Versions could save you, or catch you
Subject: General Tech | July 31, 2006 - 12:13 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Ars Technica looks at the new incarnation of Sahdow Copy that will likely ship with Vista. Having 5 previous versions of files can be very handy, if you've mistakenly changed and saved a file, but it can also making getting rid of files difficult. You will also have to be careful the backups don't bloat your hard drive to death.
Microsoft Flight Simulator X gets a little more real
Subject: General Tech | July 28, 2006 - 12:12 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Microsoft has partnered with Aero-News, a world wide real-time news service for aviation and aerospace. Flight Sim X will be gorgeous already, but this partnership raises the possiblity of real time weather and other new and unique features.
The Quadfather gives a press conference
Subject: General Tech | July 28, 2006 - 11:51 AM | Jeremy Hellstrom
An ATI VP gave a ten minute presentation on what the ATI-AMD merger will mean to consumers. Head to [H]ard|OCP to find out what was said.
ATI CrossFire(TM) and Intel® CoreT 2 Extreme platforms now available
Subject: General Tech | July 27, 2006 - 05:09 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
MARKHAM, CANADA - July 27, 2006 - 'Boundless gaming' comes home today as ATI
Technologies (TSX:ATY, NASDAQ:ATYT) announced that leading system
integrators and OEMs from around the world are bringing to market the
powerful combination of ATI's RadeonR X1900 CrossFireT multi-GPU graphics
and the IntelR CoreT 2 Extreme processor.
Subject: General Tech | July 27, 2006 - 05:05 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
SANTA CLARA, CA—JULY 27, 2006—NVIDIA Corporation (Nasdaq: NVDA), the worldwide leader in programmable graphics processor technologies, today announced that many of the world's leading system builders have elected to launch new enthusiast gaming Intel Core 2 Duo-based systems exclusively with NVIDIA SLI technology.
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