Windows Communication Foundation has steadily evolved to better support SOA and Web services. Here's how to get the most out of your WCF-based services architecture. If you want to exploit ...

The WCF short answer for building RESTful Web services (with or without a JSON response) is to use WCF Data Services. WCF Data Services establishes its own conventions for RESTful requests, while ...

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I've got a WCF web service used by our business partners that regulations say that we need to log every call and every argument passed into the calls. In the old IIS/ASMX days there were convenient ...

Hi all.<BR><BR>I thought consuming a WCF service (named pipe) hosted in a Windows service on the Web server (2k3) would be a good idea. It worked well enough when debugging in VS2008, but there my ...

WCF (Windows Communication Foundation) is a secure, reliable, and scalable messaging platform that can be used to build Web services in .Net. It provides a unified programming model for developing ...

Sending credentials automatically to Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) Web Service can make your client application more dynamic. Transport security (HTTPS) is used in WCF projects for ...

In this post I’ll present a discussion on WCF service design and performance guidelines and the recommended best practices. In future posts in this series of ...