Today I encountered a problem with accessing the metadata for a WCF service that was deployed on a Windows Server 2003 machine. The WSDL part worked just fine for the metadata exchange endpoint ( url ?wsdl, url ?wsdl=wsdl0, etc.). These WSDL files refer to XSD files for the message types. Requesting...
While browsing the WCF SDK I found two great tools: Microsoft Service Configuration Editor Microsoft Service Trace Viewer The configuration editor helps you with the confguration files that you need with WCF. It simplyfies editing those files significantly. By using a tool you also avoid typing errors...
While playing with WCF I ran into someting when I wanted to host the service in IIS. I created a 'service.svc' in a folder, added a web.config, created a bin folder to put the assembly in, and added a website to that folder in IIS. According to the MSDN documentation and several blogposts, that was enough...
I came to point that i should use a web service for the current project i'm developing and since i like to play with new technologies so i figured why not implement the web service using Windows Communication Foundation insted of "Old" ASMX. So to be realistic i did a little home work before i decided...
When you create a Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) service proxy class for a service by using svcutil.exe , it creates a proxy that derives from System.ServiceModel.ClientBase<TChannel> . This class implements IDisposable so you think you can use your proxy safely in a C# using statement...