Thursday, April 26, 2018

Project count and name length limitations of the Service Fabric tooling in Visual Studio

It would seem that I've just stumbled across the practical technical limit to how many services a Service Fabric application can have and still be debugged with Visual Studio: ~ 37. My problem would seem to be confirmed by this Github issue.

Tuesday, April 03, 2018

Accessing remoting exceptions and original causes of Exceptions in Service Fabric stateless/stateful services in v3.0+/v6.1+

The section "Remoting Exception Handling" on this docs.microsoft.com page appears to be the sum and total of the Service Fabric team's documentation on proper exception handling for Service Fabric remoting. It's two paragraphs. And it's completely insufficient bullshit.

What they fail to explain and be explicit about is the fact that Service Fabric takes WCF's exception handling capabilities to the extreme and handles all exceptions automatically by serializing them using DataContractSerializer, remoting them back to the caller, deserializing them on the caller and converting them back to .NET exceptions and making them accessible via the AggregateException.InnerException property in a try-catch block around a ServiceProxy / ActorProxy.Create<>() result's service method. Well, that's all well and good, except for the fact that according to multiple github.com issues for Service Fabric, the Service Fabric team broke the shit out of this nice facility in V2 remoting. So, now, we get to revert somewhat back to WCF's exception handling model, in the earlier days of WCF, and throw a FaultException<MyFault> where MyFault is your own custom DataContract serializable data contract object. Fantastic job boys and girls. When are you going to grow into your big person pants and fucking test things properly before releasing them ? #GettingSickAndFuckingTiredOfLazyAssUndiligentMillenialDevelopers