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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Today, I have provided an article showing you how to return a datatable using a WCF service from C# code.
In this article, you will learn how to host WCF in a Windows Service Using TCP.
This article explainss how to create WCF services for mobile applications. Learn how to create a WCF service return JSON use for mobile app.
This article will help to understand the basics of WCF Addresses.
WCF supports a number of different methods of programming. This article discusses the three common methods of developing WCF services.
This article helps to explain and list some basics of WCF Messaging Layer.
This article helps to explain the architecture of WCF and the components that make WCF what it is.
In this article, we will learn about WCF Service contracts. Learn Service contracts, Data Contracts, Message contracts, Fault Contract. and Operation Contract.
This article provides a detailed introduction to creating a simple WCF Service.
Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is an SDK for developing and deploying services on Windows. WCF provides a runtime environment for your services, enabling you to expose CLR types as services, and to consume other services as CLR types.
This article starts by explaining the motivation for service-orientation, and then continues to discuss in depth how to develop service-oriented applications using WCF.
This article will show Instance Context modes in WCF. The WCF framework has defined the following three Instance Context modes: PerCall, PerSession, and Single.
In this article, we will look how we can trace and debug information in WCF services. There are some ready made tracelisteners provided by WCF. The base of these ready made trace listeners is .NET trace listener. So we will first understand the basic concept of trace listener and then go through the ready made tracelisteners provided by WCF.
Learn WCF transport and message security, including their differences, supported bindings, and examples using WsHttpBinding, HTTPS, and BasicHttpBinding.
In this article, we will run through a quick FAQ for WCF. I am sure after reading this you will get a good understanding of the fundamentals of WCF.
WCF is a part of .NET 3.0.“. WCF is a unification technology, which unites the following technologies like NET remoting, MSMQ, Web services, COM+.
Learn how WCF transactions use WS-AtomicTransaction and two-phase commit, including transaction flow options and a SQL Server-backed service example.
In this article, you will see how to consume the custom WCF service in a Console Application.
In this article, we will concentrate on WCF concurrency and throttling. We will first try to understand what are WCF concurrency and the 3 important types of WCF concurrency. We will then see a small sample of WCF concurrency with single and multiple. We will then go through 9 combinations of WCF concurrency and instancing. Finally we will try to understand how to configure throttling using WCF ‘web.config’ file.
In this article, we will see how to host a WCF service under IIS (Internet Information Services).
In this article, I will explain what reliable messaging is and how it’s implemented in a WCF web service.
In this exercise we will see how to design a proxy using APIs provided by WCF.