WCF or ASP.NET Web APIs? My two cents on the subject (blogs.microsoft.co.il)

submitted by idof(307) 2 months, 21 days ago

A couple of weeks ago (around Feb. 16) the WCF WebAPIs - a framework for building RESTful/Hypermedia/HTTP services, which was in development over the past 1.5 years as a side-project on CodePlex, has been formally integrated into ASP.NET and its name changed to the ASP.NET Web API. These past two weeks, there has been a lot of questions among WCF developers: What does it mean that the Web APIs are no longer a part of WCF – is WCF dead? Has SOAP gone bankrupted? is HTTP the new way to go for interoperability? This post will try to answer those questions. read more...

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What’s new in WCF 4.5? WebSocket support (Part 1 of 2)(blogs.microsoft.co.il)

submitted by idof(307) 2 months, 21 days ago

This is the 11th post in the WCF 4.5 series. The previous post was about the new UDP transport support, and this new post is also about new transports – the WebSocket transport. This post is part 1 of 2. This post will be about the WebSocket support between .NET apps using WCF (SOAP-based), and the next post will be about using WebSockets between browsers and WCF (non-SOAP). read more...

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What’s new in WCF 4.5? UDP transport support(blogs.microsoft.co.il)

submitted by idof(307) 3 months, 13 days ago

This is the tenth post in the WCF 4.5 series. I’ve started this series of posts 4 months ago when .NET 4.5 developer preview was announced; The Beta/RC/RTM version is still to come, but hopefully it will be available soon, and you will be able to use the new WCF 4.5 features in your projects. Until now, I’ve shown new features in configuration easiness and hosting improvements. In this post and the next one I will cover new transport features, starting with the support for UDP transport. read more...

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WCF/ASMX Interoperability – Removing the Annoying xxxSpecified when Ad(blogs.microsoft.co.il)

submitted by idof(307) 3 months, 27 days ago

WCF/ASMX Interoperability – Removing the Annoying xxxSpecified when Adding a Web Reference to a WCF Service Today I answered a question in the MSDN forums about consuming WCF from a .NET 2 client, using the “Add Web Reference” option of Visual Studio. Apparently adding a web reference to a WCF service can cause the method signatures on the client side to look different. In this post I explain why that is and how to fix it. read more...

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Improve WCF services testability with simple Dependency Injection(blogs.microsoft.co.il)

submitted by roadan(135) 3 months, 28 days ago

Dependency injection is a great technique to reduce coupling between components and improve testability. Manually injected dependencies are dependencies which are passed manually to an object's constructor. When using WCF we depend on the WCF run time to create new instances of our service class. This solution provides a way to easily control service class instantiation for any type of WCF service read more...

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Introducing Unity.WCF providing easy IoC integration for WCF services(www.devtrends.co.uk)

submitted by devtrends(184) 4 months, 10 days ago

There are numerous blog posts available that explain how to hook up Unity with WCF. Unfortunately, many of these are incomplete, too basic or just plain wrong. Additionally, as far as I can tell, nobody has created a NuGet package to get you up and running as quickly as possible. This post introduces Unity.WCF, an open source NuGet package that (hopefully) just works in most situations, deals with cleaning up IDisposable instances and also provides a nice mechanism for automatically adding WCF behaviors to your services. read more...

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What’s new in WCF 4.5? Improved streaming in IIS hosting(blogs.microsoft.co.il)

submitted by idof(307) 4 months, 11 days ago

What’s new in WCF 4.5? Improved streaming in IIS hosting As promised in my previous post, I’m continuing my mission to inform you of new changes in WCF 4.5. If you’ve ever tried creating a WCF service that uses streamed requests (for example a file upload service) and host it in IIS, you may have noticed a strange behavior in your WCF service – it would seem that WCF is late in receiving the request, as if it was entirely loaded into the memory, and then passed to WCF. So is it streamed? or is it actually buffered? well, it’s both. This is the ninth post in the WCF 4.5 series. This post continues the previous posts on web-hosting features, and this time it is about the improved streaming capabilities of WCF 4.5 when it is hosted in IIS. read more...

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Validating WCF services with System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotions(www.devtrends.co.uk)

submitted by devtrends(184) 4 months, 24 days ago

All WCF services operations need some level of parameter validation to ensure that the data passed to the operation is present and correct. Two popular methods are manual checking and the Validation Application Block (VAB) from Enterprise Library. This article discusses another option - using the validation features from System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations. read more...

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WCF Web API - Making REST a First-Class WCF Citizen(tugberkugurlu.com)

submitted by dpeterson(4397) 6 months, 5 days ago

Applications are continually evolving to expose their functionality over the web for example social services like Flickr, Twitter and Facebook. Aside from social applications, organizations are also looking to surface their core enterprise business functionality to an ever expanding array of client platforms. WCF Web API allows developers to expose their applications, data and services to the web directly over HTTP. This allows developers to fully harness the richness of the HTTP as an application layer protocol. Applications can communicate with a very broad set of clients whether they be browsers, mobile devices, desktop applications or other backend services. They can also take advantage of the caching and proxy infrastructure of the web through providing proper control and entity headers. We are designing specifically to support applications built with a RESTful architecture style though it does not force developers to use REST. The benefits of REST for your applications include discoverability, evolvability and scalability. read more...

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RESTful WCF Service for Windows phone(www.ganshani.com)

submitted by vijayst(1311) 6 months, 15 days ago

The post explains how to develop a RESTful WCF service. Some configuration has to be done so that the RESTful service is available from Windows phone. read more...

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Load Balancing & Reverse Proxying WCF OData Services(blog.maartenballiauw.be)

submitted by rcash(4149) 6 months, 19 days ago

This article discusses rewriting WCF OData Services to correct errors in XML and using load balancing & reverse proxy. read more...

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Creating a WCF 4 dynamic locator service using discovery extensions(blogs.infosupport.com)

submitted by iiChrisb(94) 6 months, 26 days ago

An article about how to extend the wcf discovery mechanism to also include binding data. read more...

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Transport and Message Security in WCF (www.techbubbles.com)

submitted by kalyanms1(1789) 7 months, 7 days ago

This post discusses about transport and message security. In Transport Security user credentials and claims are passed using transport layer. The transport protocols are TCP, HTTP, MSMQ and IPC. Each of these protocols have their own mechanism for passing user credentials. The most common approach is using secure socket layer(SSL) for encrypting the details which sent over HTTPS. read more...

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Introducing the OData Library(blogs.msdn.com)

submitted by Noldorin(829) 7 months, 11 days ago

Shayne Burgess discusses the new standalone OData library included as a part of the latest CTP release of the WCF Data Services, looking at using the library to read and write data. (Courtesy of The Morning Brew.) read more...

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Basics of WCF Security – Part I (sanjevsharma.blogspot.com)

submitted by sanjev.sharma(579) 7 months, 14 days ago

In WCF, messages are transmitted over a variety of supported protocols including IPC (named pipes), TCP, HTTP and MSMQ. So you must establish security policies for protecting messages and for authenticating and authorizing calls. WCF security is a huge topic by itself, but we are sure with this article you will get a quick start of how to go about WCF security. read more...

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Basics of WCF Security – Part 2 (sanjevsharma.blogspot.com)

submitted by sanjev.sharma(579) 7 months, 14 days ago

In last First Article of Basics of WCF Security series, we discussed Core Security Concepts, Transport and Message level security basics and started discussion about Security Settings in WCF. As usual, this article assumes that you have a fair understanding of basics of WCF and you have at least written or seen a simple WCF application in action. To refresh it, following is the list of available security settings in WCF read more...

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