A year ago, we released SO-Aware as our first product in Tellago Studios. SO-Aware represented a new way to manage web services and all the related artifacts like configuration, tests or monitoring data in the Microsoft stack.

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One of the main features that SO-Aware provides is the central repository for storing service artifacts (WSLD, schemas, bindings) and configuration that any organization generates. This central repository is completely exposed as an OData service that third party applications and tools can easily consume using Http.

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We have introduced a new Visual Studio tool called “Service Explorer” as part of the new SO-Aware SDK version 1.3 to help developers to configure and export any regular WCF service into the SO-Aware service repository.

This new tool is a regular Visual Studio Tool Window that can be opened from “View –> Other Windows –> Services Explorer”.

One of the features that you get out of the box with SO-Aware is the ability of monitoring your services. You can either monitoring the traffic for your REST or SOAP services, and see the details of all the incoming or outgoing messages, or any fault that got generated during the execution.

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As part of the simplification in service configuration that we want to provide in SO-Aware, we have added two new commands in the PowerShell provider for generating the service configuration at design time in case you don’t want to rely on SO-Aware for resolving all that at runtime.

We have added a command for generating the configuration specific for SO-Aware

Get-SWServiceConfiguration -serviceversion "SampleService(1.0)" -configpath "d:\temp\MyConfig.config" -servicetype "Services.SampleService"

The arguments you pass to this command are the servic

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I am happy to announce today the support in Visual Studio 2008 for adding new service references from the SO-Aware service repository. We have created a simple plugin that you can register in Visual Studio to support this new functionality.

The functionality provided by this plugin is equivalent to what you already have for Visual Studio 2010.

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As we announced last week, we are shipping a new Visual Studio plugin for generating service proxies as part of the SO-Aware SDK.

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We have recently included a very cool feature to automatically create WCF service references (or service proxies) within Visual Studio 2010 from the SO-Aware repository.

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We have created a new Virtual PC VM with all the environment ready for running SO-Aware. You can find more information here

As Jesus mentioned in this post, SO-Aware provides three interfaces for managing the service repository. An OData API in case you want to integrate third applications with the repository. OData is a pure http API that can be easily consumed in any platform using a simple http client library. The management portal, which is an ASP.NET MVC user interface layered on top of the OData API and probably the one most people will use.

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Configuring a WCF service to use federated authentication in an organization is not something trivial as it requires some good knowledge of the available security settings, and more precisely, how to talk to the existing security token services with the right WCF bindings.

This is something that usually only a few people in the organization knows how to do it right, so having a way to centralize all this configuration in a central location and have the rest of the developers to use becomes really important.    

SO-Aware plays an important role in that sen

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A common requirement that we received from some customers while we were in the early design stages of SO-Aware was the ability of tracking static dependencies between services. For instance, Service A calls Service B and Service B calls Service X. This feature is not only useful for documentation but also for helping administrators to determine which services are going to affected with a change in one of the existing services.

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Service testing is another interesting feature that you will find in SO-Aware.

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As I discussed in the previous post, everything in SO-Aware is exposed as resources via OData. You can simply take a look at this by browsing at the main feed of the service repository.

This means that we can import a new service into the repository and configure it with the correct bindings and behaviors a simple set of http requests.

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As I discussed in the previous post, everything in SO-Aware is exposed as resources via OData. You can simply take a look at this by browsing at the main feed of the service repository.

This means that we can import a new service into the repository and configure it with the correct bindings and behaviors a simple set of http requests.

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