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Difference between Web Services(ASPX) and WCF

Sat, 27 Jun 2009 06:05:13 GMT

This article proposes the information for the beginners and explains why to upgrade from Web Services to WCF..

How to authorize a WCF service in the anonymous internet

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:22:19 GMT

I had to program an authorization mechanism between a client application and a webservice that is hosted by a internet provider. In such a case, we have two different domains in place, no windows integrated authentication, no certificate or something else. The old fashioned way in that case is to use a SoapHeader in order to send informations about the user to the web service . That's the point where the trail starts .

Global error handling in WCF

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:36:27 GMT

Dave shows us how to easily add global error handling to WCF external methods without having to expand the responsiblity of each and every exernal method.

(De)Serializing multiple generic collections w DataContractSerializer

Sat, 20 Jun 2009 13:25:24 GMT

The DataContractSerializer class is the successor of the XmlSerializer class. Introduced together with WCF. This one is also being used by WCF for serialization by default. You can of course always switch back to the good old XmlSerializer if you want to.

How to host a WCF service that uses Castle Windsor in a Windows Servic

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:46:43 GMT

Currently I'm working on a web application project that also uses a WCF service for some operations. We are a big fan of using ALT.NET and are using Castle Windsor to do IoC (Inversion of Control)/Dependency Injection. The problem we were having was the small delay to start up the worker process in IIS. Which is not much you can do about within IIS. (As far as I know) Except for maybe making a wake up service that calls a simple method every x minutes. Just to keep the worker process alive.

EntitySpaces DynamicQuery Serialization Part II (WCF and Silverlight)

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:41:41 GMT

This stuff is hot guys and gals. We are asking Jon Davis to write an entirely new Silverlight demo that will showcase our DynamicQuery feature running under Silverlight inside the browser and hitting a WCF service on the server. We cannot wait, this is so slick . Here's another sneak peak post.

EntitySpaces - WCF DynamicQuery Serialization

Sun, 14 Jun 2009 03:46:43 GMT

We have decided to use the WCF DataContract approach when serializing our enhanced DynamicQuery's. In our upcoming alpha release our DynamicQuery classes now live in a separate assembly that can execute on the client side along with your EntitySpaces proxies without requiring either the EntitySpaces.Core or the EntitySpaces.Interfaces assemblies. The EntitySpaces.DynamicQuery assembly (only 52k in size) is also compatible with Silverlight and can run down inside of the browser.

Unity: WCF service resolution container extension

Mon, 08 Jun 2009 14:13:53 GMT

how to create a WCF service resolution container extension

Why Windows Communitcation Foundation? What is difference between WCF

Fri, 05 Jun 2009 11:58:07 GMT

Previously .Net developers stick with two ides to achieve distributed computing. .Net remoting and web service

Resuing types in Silverlight Service References

Fri, 05 Jun 2009 05:39:43 GMT

How to reuse types across mulitlple WCF Service References in Silverlight.

WCF FAQ Part 3 - 10 security related FAQ

Tue, 26 May 2009 08:42:57 GMT

In this article we will start with transport and message security understanding. We will then see simple code samples of how to implement transport and message security using WsHTTP bindings. We will also see what is the difference between 'BasicHttpBinding' and 'WsHttpBinding' with the help of a simple source code. 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.

7 simple steps to enable HTTPS on WCF WsHttp bindin

Mon, 25 May 2009 07:00:25 GMT

When we talk about WCF security there are two ways one is the transport level security and the other is message level security. Transport level security is nothing but built in security by protocols itself. In message level security we need to encrypt the data, in other words security is injected in the data itself. In this article we will look in to how we can implement transport level security using WsHttp bindings. We do not need to do extra development for transport level security because it's more of the protocols inherent security model. In this article we will implement WsHttp using HTTPS as transport security.

7 simple steps to enable HTTPS on WCF WsHttp bindings

Mon, 25 May 2009 06:41:54 GMT

JSON serialization and de-serialization in WCF DataContracts

Sun, 24 May 2009 01:23:17 GMT

With XML becoming a thing of past for inter process communication and data exchange on the Internet infrastructures, JSON is more increasingly getting popular for providing quicker and better packaging of data across the wires. To be specific, as the need for partial rendering of web pages increases with the dynamic exchange of data using AJAX-enabled Web services, JSON has become more compact and simpler means to communicate between client calls and server processes thus providing a rich user experience. Moreover, Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) processes JSON messages using an internal, hidden mapping between JSON data and the XML infoset for data exchange.

9 simple steps to enable X.509 certificates on WCF

Sat, 23 May 2009 19:58:24 GMT

In this article we will discuss how we can enable certificates on WCF service. WCF has two modes by which it transfers data one is the transport and the other is the message. This tutorial will concentrate on how we can enable certificates on message mode of data transfer.

WCF Training

Mon, 18 May 2009 23:45:50 GMT

Like their WPF training course, Intertech's WCF Training is exceptional.

Unit testing WCF services through dependency injection

Mon, 18 May 2009 17:24:58 GMT

"When building a WCF service in an enterprise application, this service frequently depends on other services or resources. When creating unit tests for this service, we don't want to host all these other services over WCF endpoints. Instead we will most likely want to inject mock objects. In some case we may even want to inject some in-process instances of these other services."

Create WCF Services Quickly & Painlessly

Fri, 15 May 2009 23:58:30 GMT

Learn how to create WCF services quickly.

Difference between BasicHttpBinding and WsHttpBinding

Wed, 13 May 2009 14:56:01 GMT

WCF has introduced lot of bindings and protocols. This article will concentrate on two important protocols BasicHttpBinding and WsHttpBinding which look similar but have some huge fundamental differences. So we will first start with the difference and then we will make a small project and see how the differences look practically.

Certificate Authentication & Transport Security in WCF

Thu, 07 May 2009 07:50:52 GMT

I think I understand more about setting up a WCF service from this article then from about 10 links I found previously; and that's saying something coming from an MSDN article.

Configuring WCF Throttling Behaviors

Tue, 28 Apr 2009 04:03:42 GMT

Most WCF services hosted in a live environment if not configured for handling heavy simultaneous requests give a Denial of Service Error, better known as DoS attacks. To prevent these from happening we have to configure the throttling behavior and some attributes of the ServiceHost. In this article we try to understand and configure each throttling setting of a WCF service and how it affects the execution of the service.

Using the MSMQ binding in WCF

Sat, 04 Apr 2009 12:29:32 GMT

One of the most over-looked bindings available in WCF is the Microsoft Message Queue (MSMQ) binding. The virtues of HTTP and TCP are well documented. REST is the cool, "new" way to access services. MSMQ seems relegated to interfacing WCF with older "legacy" systems. This shouldn't be the case. The MSMQ binding provides a rich set of features and functionality that make it an excellent choice for building many types of applications.

Dude, where's my message? WCF and Bringing Messages Back From The Dead

Thu, 02 Apr 2009 09:51:09 GMT

Article covers how to bring WCF messages back from the transactional dead-letter queue using a WCF router which can resend any message back to it's original destination queue. Includes source discussion and zip file download of the solution (VS 2008)

Integrating Unity with WCF

Fri, 27 Mar 2009 00:19:55 GMT

Shows how you can use Unity to resolve dependencies within a WCF Service.

Remoting issues w/ auto properties

Wed, 25 Mar 2009 05:41:44 GMT

In this post Derik Whittaker shows that how our friend automatic properties can lead to problems that are hard to detect.