Because I’m doing presentations, demos and the WCF article series, I host a lot of WCF services inside a console application. Console applications are great for demonstrating something really quickly. When hosting a WCF service...
Last time we generated the client and configuration file. Whereas in the asmx world we had a proxy class, the WCF team renamed this in the June CTP to client. For us to use...
While having some fun writing a WCF chat application, I was having some troubles. I was using duplex communication over http, using the WsDualHttpBinding. The client needs to setup a callback channel for the...
Last time we saw how we could create an instance of our service by hosting it using some configuration in our app.config. We still need to have it exposed using metadata though. We’ll do...
Finally .NET Framework 3.0 RTM’d, so I don’t have to run in my VMWare anymore. A good time to see if everything works and create the host for the service contract we’ve created last time. We’ll...
As seen in the previous article, we need an address, binding and contract to complete the WCF ABC. We’ll start at the contract. A contract is defined explicitly, via a class. You add a [ServiceContract]...
I want to begin with a conceptual explanation about services. A service always has at least one endpoint, but can have multiple. A client normally communicates with only one endpoint. A plain-old-webservice only has one...
I’m starting a series of posts about Windows Communication Foundation (WCF). The goal of the series is to introduce WCF to everyone who hasn’t had the opportunity to experience WCF, for whatever reason. While...
Dennis is an independent consultant and software architect who loves building distributed systems and the challenges they bring. What he learns he tries to share via numerous articles, blogposts, presentations and workshops.
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