Lots of people struggle with trouble-shooting WCF services; this tutorial describes how to set up diagnostics, so that you can understand what is going on in case problems happen.

Intercept WCF calls to setup the NHibernate GetCurrentSession so you can make use of a single ISession per request all handled by NHibernate. Add a custom WCF behavior and implement IDispatchMessageInspector.

Task based asynchronous programming is now simplified and streamlined in .NET 4.5 through the use of keywords ‘await’ and ‘async’. These keywords help makes asynchronous code look similar to synchronous coding, making it easier to write and understand Asynchronous code.

This WCF service tutorial is part-4 in series of WCF Service FAQs. Its mostly about SOA (Service oriented Architecture) and WCF Transaction etc.

This WCF service tutorial is part-3 in series of WCF Service FAQs.

The article highlights how to leverage the best performance from your WCF services.

A variation of the service locator pattern for a WCF service using Unity.

There are number of public products or services which have already adopted OData in their data publishing and also provided the OData compatible interfaces for the clients to consume the application data. Microsoft products SharePoint 2010, Windows Azure Storage Service,SQL Server 2008 Reporting Ser...

This WCF service tutorial is part-2 in series of WCF Service FAQs. Previous part in this series is already published at WCF Service FAQs – Part 1.

Defining security contextes in Routing service environment.

How to save bandwidth enabling wcf compression and binary binding over http/https

I came across to WCF 4 routing features while designing some Central services which will provide various services to all of my client-end service. I like to create a single entry point to communicate all those service and keep them separate because of scalability reason. WCF routing feature seems to...

Simple and basic difference is that ASMX web service is designed to send and receive messages using SOAP over HTTP only. While WCF service can exchange messages using any format (SOAP is default) over any transport protocol (HTTP, TCP/IP, MSMQ, NamedPipes etc).

Microsoft Windows Communication Foundation comes with a set of built-in bindings and each binding is designed to fulfill some specific need. So, if interoperability is our concern and we need to communicate with non-WCF system, then, we should go for basicHttpBinding or wsHttpBinding. Although these...