What is WCF? Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) in short enables you to build plain .Net classes and expose them as a technological agnostic service to the outside world. This is a good idea for several reasons. It tends to reduce coupling. Also writing those services yourself adds little business value Read more…
When you use a WCF ServiceContract you will want to supply custom Types for your Operations. This custom types need to be robust for versioning, should supply collections and .Net types like string, int or enums. This post is going to show you, how and why you want to use Read more…
For the following sections we will utilize following service definition and contract: [ServiceContract(Name=”myservice”, Namespace=”config.myservice”)] public class IMyServiceContract { [OperationContract] void MyMethod(); } class MyService : IMyServiceContract { public void MyMethod() { //omitted } } Administrative Configuration To administratively configure your endpoints to use in WCF you simply add a system.serviceModel Read more…
This post dives into the technicalities of what a service in WCF can do and how you can configure this. We are going to start with the ServiceContractAttribute and its properties. We proceed with the OperationContractAttribute and finish with the ways an operation can be invoked in WCF. ServiceContractAttribute We Read more…
Abstractions and Data The road to becoming a full blown programmer is not easy, yet also not impossible. If I could do it, probably everyone can do it. In this series of posts I will get the most common terms out of the way. I am going to cover a Read more…