The world is transforming into a digital space powered by emerging technologies such as SMAC (i.e. a combination of social networking, mobile computing, analytics and cloud computing). These technologies act as the force that helps drive business innovation. So, if your enterprise IT team still do not have a roadmap ready for the emerging mobile… Read More »
In computing technology, OData(Open Data Protocol) is a web protocol used to query and update data. OData is based on REST protocol and is helpful in simple and standard view of the data on web even by simplest of the browsers. It is considered best for building and consumption of the RESTful APIs. It is… Read More »
How would you feel, when you ordered something, you gotta money-debited text peeping out from your mobile but couldn’t see a order successful page while shopping at your favorite portal? Don’t you yell at the portal which didn’t send you the product and the bank which took your bucks for no reason! So what causes… Read More »
Windows Communication Foundation Service also known as WCF Service provides us an optimal way in creating Services. It can be hosted in a variety of ways (as explained by below diagram) including IIS, Console Application, .NET application or can be hosted as Windows Service. So why should we go for WAS hosting i.e. Windows Activation Service.… Read More »
When comes to Service Oriented Architecture or Programming, Microsoft’s WCF (Windows Communication Foundation) technology plays a prominent role in the field. It enables developers to segregate Services/Data with Client, hence it helps in developing a loosely coupled application with ease. Before digging into further definition of what is WCF Data Service is, let me clarify… Read More »
I wanted to say Happy New Year to all readers and wishing that 2015 be an amazing year for you and your family. Whatever WCF Tutorial has achieved so far was not possible without you. So, many thanks for your feedback and contribution here. Year 2014 was the best year for WCF Tutorial so far. This… Read More »
In Windows Communication Foundation, both parties (i.e. a service and client) communicate with each other and exchange messages using a certain pattern known as Message Exchange Pattern (MEP). WCF supports three different types of MEPs (Message Exchange Patterns). Request-Reply One-Way Duplex In this WCF Tutorial Series, we will explore all three Message Exchange Patterns step by step with… Read More »
WCF Data Contract In Windows Communication Foundation, Data Contract is an agreement between parties (i.e. a service and a client) that describes what type of data will be exchanged between them? We can control the contents (i.e. Payload data or message body) of a SOAP message using Data Contract. In more simple words, we can say… Read More »
By publishing my last article “WCF Hosting in IIS Simplified“, I have completed a milestone of 50 WCF Tutorial on Windows Communication Foundation for beginners as well as professional developers. Throughout this journey, my intention was to follow a practical and step by step approach to explain important concepts on WCF. I’ll try my best to continue the… Read More »
In this WCF tutorial, we will see the new and important features introduced in different versions of Windows Communication Foundation starting fromWCF 3.5, 4.0 toWCF 4.5. What’s New in WCF v3.5 WCF support for REST Style Services by introducing Web programming model using rich features of HTTP instead of just a transport. In order to… Read More »