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Why WCF
UPDATE 9-July-2010: This entry gets a lot of random hits, so I thought I would update the information as of July 2010, just to give links to newer areas relating to WCF. WCF – Windows Communication...
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The WCF Run-Down
Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is a framework for building service-oriented applications. Using WCF, you can send data as asynchronous messages from one service endpoint to another. Great… Lets...
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Being a Good Host
Hosting a WCF application is quite simple. There are 3 available hosting options IIS (Internet Information Services), WAS (Windows Activation Service) under Vista/Server 2008 and an ordinary (windows...
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Putting all the basics together
Before we get stuck into a full scale example, I’ve prepared a simple checklist of tasks required to get a basic service up and running. Refer to this checklist to get your first WCF solutions up and...
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This MessageHeader will self destruct in 5 seconds
Let’s get our hands dirty with an example you can follow along with. With the basic concepts covered we can whip up something to send some data back and forth. We will start with a simple winform to...
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Talking Without Speaking, Hearing Without Listening.
In this blog I publish information and ideally have people that subscribe to it. For the blog I use the WordPress hosting site (service) you may use an RSS aggregator to subscribe (client). In a...
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Being a Good Host 2 – Grouping Multiple Services
Previously I gave a simple overview of hosting a single services in a form. If you’re developing a larger system and you have broken down business across several services, for reasons ranging from code...
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One Way Street
One-Way-Calls in WCF are an effective way to perform an action that you don’t care when (or even if) it completes. If you do care about tracking success or logging failure I’ll have a follow up post to...
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ServiceModelEx
I have brought up ServiceModelEx several times already, and thought I’d dedicate a post that I can link back to other times when I mention ServiceModelEx. ServiceModelEx is a set of WCF extensions...
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Please form a queue, for poison.
In the previous post about using MSMQ to facilitate One-Way-Calls I covered some of the basics of setting up a MSMQ binding. In that scenario if a consumer of that end point sent a malformed message or...
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