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

submitted by idofidof(307) 2 months, 20 days ago

It’s time for post No. 12 in the WCF 4.5 series. Part 1 of 2 was about WebSocket support with SOAP-based messages. Part 2 is about WebSocket support with plain text messages that enables the interaction between web browsers and WCF. read more...

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Calling a WCF service from a client without having the contract(blogs.microsoft.co.il)

submitted by idofidof(307) 3 months, 18 days ago

I was asked yesterday in the Hebrew C#/.NET Framework MSDN forums a tough question – is it possible to dynamically call a WCF service using only the contract name, operation name, and metadata address? The short answer is – YES! To see how, check out the code in the blog post. read more...

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WCF Client Proxy Creation Process(gal-segal.com)

submitted by cornetocorneto(135) 3 months, 27 days ago

WCF enables us to consume a service in 2 ways: adding a service reference or by creating the proxy yourself. Both methods do the same thing – create a proxy class and and using it with the channel factory. Both cases are good, and its a matter of preference which one you use. I tend to use the second one – I prefer creating my proxy and add reference to the service dlls in the consuming app. read more...

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Host a WCF service with SSL and self issued certificate(www.codewrecks.com)

submitted by alkampferalkampfer(1873) 6 months, 5 days ago

When you use SSL for your WCF service it is really useful to be able to work with self issue certificates for dev machine. read more...

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Basics of WCF Security(sanjevsharma.blogspot.com)

submitted by sanjev.sharmasanjev.sharma(579) 6 months, 12 days ago

In last edition of Basics of WCF Security series, we discussed ProtectionLevel Security Setting in WCF. Today’s WCF corner is a continuation on the same topic. 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. read more...

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What’s new in WCF 4.5? Changed default for ASP.NET compatibility mode(blogs.microsoft.co.il)

submitted by idofidof(307) 6 months, 26 days ago

This is the eighth post in the WCF 4.5 series. This post continues the previous posts on web-hosting features. This post is about the ASP.NET compatibility mode default change of WCF 4.5. read more...

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Making Sense with Data Contract (Structural Contract)(kenwong.org)

submitted by canonwcanonw(10) 7 months ago

One of the confusing aspects of learning data contract is that WCF offering multiple approaches to define data contract. read more...

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Impersonation and Delegation in WCF (www.techbubbles.com)

submitted by kalyanms1kalyanms1(1789) 7 months, 3 days ago

Impersonation is a technique that WCF Services use to authorize the caller’s identity to access to service resources such as files and database tables. Service resources can be located either on local service machine or remotely hosted. The resources are being accessed by WCF Service’s process identity or specific windows identity. read more...

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WCF web api + developer APi keys(babaandthepigman.wordpress.com)

submitted by rcashrcash(4149) 7 months, 4 days ago

If you are familiar with using REST style API calls to other websites providing private keys then you might find this article of some interest. The author integrates some common methods in with WCF to create some interesting code to manage the API calls. read more...

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How to choose right WCF binding? (www.techbubbles.com)

submitted by kalyanms1kalyanms1(1789) 7 months, 5 days ago

Binding in WCF defines how clients can connect with your service. The base class for all bindings in WCF is System.ServiceModel.Channels.Binding. A Binding includes definition for WS-* protocols used, the message encoding and the transport protocol. read more...

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Using StructureMap with WCF Web API(catchblock.com)

submitted by tparvitparvi(75) 7 months, 7 days ago

Sample how to use StructureMap as you IOC container with WCF Web API read more...

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My WCF Session at VS Live 2011 Redmond(blogs.microsoft.co.il)

submitted by idofidof(307) 7 months, 8 days ago

Yesterday I had my WCF 4 session in VS Live, where I showed some of the new features of WCF 4, including: - Configuration simplification - IIS hosting features - WebHttp improvements - Routing and Discovery services I also talked about some other new WCF 4 features such as the DataContractResolver type, the new ReceiveContext API for MSMQ bindings, Monitoring WCF with ETW and PerfMon, the new binary stream encoder, and the new throttling defaults. Slides and samples are available for download. read more...

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Using Geospatial Data -- WCF Data Services Team Blog(blogs.msdn.com)

submitted by NoldorinNoldorin(829) 7 months, 9 days ago

The WCF Data Services Team introduces the new support for geospatial data and querying in their latest CTP release. The blog post describes the new feature and guides us through an example of how to create and query such a service. read more...

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WCF 4.5 Features(www.techbubbles.com)

submitted by kalyanms1kalyanms1(1789) 7 months, 15 days ago

This post discusses the new features in WCF 4.5. There have been significant improvements in WCF 4.5 on configuration. Simplifying the generated configuration file in client A client configuration file is generated when you add a service reference in Visual Studio 2010. The configuration files in earlier version of WCF contained the value of every binding property even if it is a default value. In WCF 4.5 Configuration files contain binding properties that are set to non-default value. read more...

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What’s new in WCF 4.5? BasicHttpsBinding (blogs.microsoft.co.il)

submitted by idofidof(307) 7 months, 16 days ago

This is the seventh post in the WCF 4.5 series. In previous posts we’ve examined two new security features of WCF 4.5 and IIS – multiple client credentials support, and default HTTPS endpoint support, both new features are IIS-specific (or to be more exact, web hosting specific). In this post we will look into a new security configuration option in WCF 4.5 – the BasicHttpsBinding. read more...

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What’s new in WCF 4.5? Automatic HTTPS endpoint for IIS (blogs.microsoft.co.il)

submitted by idofidof(307) 7 months, 21 days ago

This is the sixth post in the WCF 4.5 series. In the previous post we’ve discussed new authentication features for services hosted in IIS, and this post is continuing the new IIS hosting features list - automatic HTTPS endpoints in IIS. read more...

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