Design and host service-oriented applications. Learn contracts, bindings, security, serialization, hosting, versioning, diagnostics, and reliability patterns. Build interoperable, testable services with solid configuration and monitoring practices.
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Learn how to host a WCF service in a Windows Service, configure its endpoints, and install and manage the service with ServiceInstaller and installutil.
In order to understand WCF Bindings in details, it's important to understand the Channel Stack as part of the WCF runtime.
In this article, we will manually implement a basic WCF service from scratch, step by step with clear instructions and precise screen snapshots. You will have a thorough understanding of what WCF is under the hood through this article. Visual Studio 2010 under Windows 7 will be used for all screenshots of this article.
In this article you will learn WCF Service using jQuery.
This article is about Session Management in WCF and Silverlight. This article will explain you the code and settings required in different files like web.config, service class, service interface etc.
Service contract means the collective mechanisms by which a service’s capabilities and requirements are specified for its consumers.
Here, we will learn about Service Contracts and Operation Contracts in WCF.
Here you will learn about Instancing and Concurrency in WCF.
This article will illustrate how to send binary data from Oracle Application Server (Oracle AS) to WCF using Web Services technologies specifically MTOM standard specification, thus achieving interoperability between the two platforms.
Here you will read One-Way Operations in WCF Services. WCF offers one-way operations to support this sort of fire-and-forget invocation,: once the client issues the call, WCF generates a request message, but no correlated reply message will ever return to the client.
WCF Routing Service is a new feature in .NET 4.0 frameworks. The most basic use of the Routing Service is to aggregate multiple destination endpoints to reduce the number of endpoints exposed to the client applications, and then use message filters to route each message to the correct destination.
In this article, I describe the Windows Communication Foundation and it's basics.
This article shows how to build a WCF Restful service which is a so called service provider & client application (in this case it's a web app) which uses a service so it's called a consumer.
In this article I will show a practical example of a WCF service for inserting data into a database using ASP.NET.
In this article, you will learn Exception Handling in a WCF Service.
This article shows how to push record table changes to WPF clients using WCF Call Back Service.
Many times we would like to control the way WCF service objects are instantiated on WCF server. You would like to control how long the WCF instances should be residing on the server.
Learn how to create and configure a WCF service App.config file using the WCF Configuration Editor.
The Open Data Protocol (OData) is a Web protocol for querying and updating data that provides a way to unlock your data and free it from silos that exist in applications today.
This article explains the Ajax Enabled WCF service to create an Ajax Enabled WCF service.
In this article, we will try to implement a two way communication between the server and the client.
WCF provides a runtime environment for your services, enabling you to expose CLR types as services and to consume other services as CLR types.
In this article, I will walkthrough and highlight the important aspects of the SharePoint 2010 support for custom WCF services.
In this article, we will see how to create and host a WCF Service inside SharePoint 2010.
