Few days back, while going through a technical forum, I read the following… “Why do we need WCF now? We can go for new ASP.NET Web APIs framework” Actually, Windows Communication Foundation is designed to exchange SOAP-based messages using variety of transport protocols like HTTP, TCP, NamedPipes or MSMQ etc. While ASP.NET API is a… Read More »
Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 and .NET framework 4.5 RTM build is complete and ready to go live on 15th August.Microsoft announced that official launching of product is set on 15th August. “The engineering team is finished and is now preparing the build for our numerous distribution channels” by Microsoft representative. It will be available in… Read More »
Windows Communication Foundation is a programming model that enables us to develop and then expose our services in a variety of different ways. It means a single WCF service can be exposed with different wire formats and message protocols. Bindings in WCF actually defines that how to communicate with the service. So, binding specifies that… Read More »
XmlSerializer was with Microsoft .NET since version 1.0 but with .NET framework version 3.0, Microsoft introduces DataContractSerializer. DataContractSerializer is the default serializer for WCF although we can still use XmlSerializer for serialization in Windows Communication Foundation. A basic difference between the two Serializers is the approach being used and that is the primary goal of… Read More »
Transaction is basically a logical unit of work comprising of activities that all needed to be succeeded or failed, and also it must be compliant with ACID principals.Movement of money from a bank account to another is a simple example of a transaction. In this single transaction, two operations will be performed. One account will… Read More »
After deploying my Windows Communication Foundation service on IIS 7.5, i was getting the following error.HTTP Error 500.24 – Internal Server Error An ASP.NET setting has been detected that does not apply in Integrated managed pipeline mode. I tried to google it out but unable to find exact solution for this one. Later on, after researching… Read More »
In order to understand Windows Communication Foundation Bindings in details, it’s important to understand the Channel Stack as part ofWCF runtime.WCF bindingis composed of binding elements and each binding element is corresponding to a specific channel in Channel Stack. The Channel Stackcan be categorized into two major areas i.e. Protocol Channels and Transport Channels.Protocol Channels… Read More »
First of all, it needs to understand that WCF Service provides all the capabilities of .NET web servies and further extends it.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… Read More »
If we have installed .NET framework before installing IIS on our machine and we wanted to deploy a WCF service. Then we need to do some additional steps by registering Windows Communication Foundation with IIS and ASP.NET. This WCF tutorial focuses on simple steps to resolution. Firstly, register ASP.NET with IIS by executing following: C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\aspnet_regiis… Read More »
Tracing mechanism in Windows Communication Foundation is based on the classes that resides in System.Diagnostic namespace. Important classes are Trace, TraceSource and TraceListener. For better understanding we will follow step by step approach in this WCF Tutorial. Following are the steps to enable tracing in WCF: Step 1. Configuring WCF to emit tracing information/Define Trace Source… Read More »