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AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorsMichael S. Vernal, Alex DeJarnatt, Donald F. Box, Douglas M. Purdy, Jesus Ruiz-Scougall, Eugene Osovetsky, Richard D. Hill, Stephen J. Millet, Yasser Shohoud, Stephen T. Swartz, Stefan H. Pharies
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Embodiments described herein provide for a message contract programming model, which is a mechanism for service developers to control the processing, layout, and creation of messages (e.g., SOAP) without losing the benefits of a strongly-typed data contract model. Such programming model is based on attributes, which can be used to define the action or operations, headers, and body parts components of a message. These attributes may be used on a type annotated with message contract or on a service operation to control the manner in which the message (e.g., SOAP) is constructed from a service process, process parameters, and/or return values. The use of the message contract in conjunction with a message formatter as defined herein provides for many advantageous features and embodiments described herein.
In a distributed messaging system, a method of formatting a layout of a message object using a message contract that maps elements to various portions thereof, the method comprising:
In a distributed messaging system, a message contract used in creating message objects, instances, and NPDL contracts used to communicate with a service, the message contract including:
In a distributed messaging system, a method of automatically creating one or more portions of an NPDL contract used by clients in communicating with a service, the method comprising:
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