In order to host a Windows Communication Foundation Service, we normally need a managed process, a ServiceHost instance and an endpoint configured forWCF Service.We can host aWCF Service in following different possible ways: Hosting in a Managed Application/ Self Hosting Console Application Windows/WPF Application Windows Service Hosting on Web Server IIS 6.0 (ASP.NET Application supports only HTTP)… Read More »
It’s part-7 of WCF 4.5 Tutorial Series and we are going to explore further new features of Windows Communication Foundation v4.5. Today, we will discuss about the following features: Support for UDP Binding Compression Support in Binary Encoder In this WCF Tutorial Series, so far we have covered the following new features in WCF 4.5.… Read More »
In this WCF Tutorial Series on “New Features of Windows Communication Foundation v4.5”, we have covered a lot of exciting features like Simplified Configuration, WCF Configuration Validation, ASP.NET Compatibility Mode default change, BasicHttpsBinding, Task-based Programming model etc. In this part-6 of WCF Tutorial, we will explore the following: Multiple Authentication Support Contract First Development Before… Read More »
“A ChannelFactory basically creates a Channel for WCF clients to communicate with WCF service endpoint“. In one of my previous WCF Interview Questions Tutorial Series, we discussed about the difference between using ChannelFactory and Windows Communication Foundation Proxy. Here in this WCF Tutorial, we are going to discuss about a new feature of Windows Communication Foundation… Read More »
In this part of WCF Tutorial series, we are going to implement “Task based programming model” feature of Windows Communication Foundation v4.5. Asynchronous programming has undoubtedly overcome application performance issues and also make application more responsive but as a developer for many, this approach has always been a little complex. In WCF 4.5, Microsoft introduced support for Task-based programming… Read More »
In my previous posts on this topic, I have explained about the following new features in Windows Communication Foundationv 4.5: New Features in WCF 4.5 – Part 1 Simplified Generated Configuration Validating WCF Configuration New Features in WCF 4.5 – Part 2 Single WSDL file Tooltip and Intellisense Support Now, here in this WCF Tutorial,… Read More »
This WCF Tutorial is Part-2 in series of new features in Windows Communication Foundation v4.5. In this part, we will further explore following interesting features: Single WSDL file Tooltip and Intellisense Support In previous WCF Tutorial, we already have explored following features: Simplified Generated Configuration Validating WCF Configuration WCF – Single WSDL file As we… Read More »
Windows Communication Foundation v 4.5 released with lots of new features and we have already highlighted those features in previous WCF Tutorial. Now, we wanted to dive deeper and explore each new feature in more detail. Here in this WCF Tutorial – Part 1, we are going to discuss the following two new features in… Read More »
In part-1 of this WCF Tutorial series, we have gone through new features introduced in Windows Communication Foundation v3.5 and v4.0. In this part, we will highlight new features of WCF 4.5. New Features in WCF v4.5 Simplified Generated Configuration files, generated configuration file on client will only have non-default binding configuration. more… Validating WCF… 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 »