WCF helps you build your SOA or simply eases the way of connecting two applications. To handle this, the connection of the client and the service needs to be handled in some way. The good thing about WCF is that it is so very extendable and configurable. This holds true for Read more…
We are diving deeper into the topics of Callbacks in this post. What this post will cover: Why do you want callbacks What is a Callback How to deal with callbacks in WCF? How can you setup a callback How can a callback be invoked (service side invocation) How you Read more…
To use your WCF service with a WCF client you will need to get access to the service. WCF does this by supplying a transparent proxy of the service to your client. This can then be used to invoke remote methods on the service. So in this post we will Read more…
The WCF service cannot exist in a void. And because WCF is a Windows technology you will need to set up a windows process of some sorts to host your WCF service. For this you have three different options. IIS WAS Self- hosting Actually there is also the fourth possibility Read more…
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…