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by Daniel Vaughan
Calcium provides much of what one needs to rapidly build a multifaceted and sophisticated modular application. Includes a host of modules and services, and an infrastructure that is ready to use in your next application.
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This article describes a design, implementation and usage of the Custom Routing Manager for managing messages via Routing Service built-in .Net 4 Technology.
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This article describes a design, implementation and tooling of model driven WorkflowServices logically centralized in the Repository and physically decentralized for their runtime projecting.
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This article presents the techniques and caveats of building Silverlight applications that can be notified about database state changes via polling duplex. WSHttp binding and CLR triggers are used to implement the solution as well.

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Using OutgoingMessageProperties and OperationContextScope to implement authorization by http header for WCF client that communicates with non WCF-based web services.
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How to fix PlatformNotSupportedException when running WCF apps
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A tutorial showing how to use a smartcard API, a SharePoint extension and web services, to add a qualified electronic signature (QES) to a PDF file located in a SharePoint online library.

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28 Jul 2014 by lusgon
Uploading a file using WCF REST API and JavaScript
30 Sep 2014 by WaqaarRasool
Heartbeat Implementation in WCF Service in C#
16 Jan 2014 by Tom Glick Philadelphia, US
POC to demonstrate passing of collections of complex objects to ASP.NET Web API Controllers.
31 Mar 2013 by Melih Mucuk
Creating a WCF Service with JSON data for use on iOS
30 Nov 2015 by Mohammad Dayyan, VahidJafari
A library for creating .Net Serializable Expressions to send via WCF services
26 Jan 2011 by #realJSOP
When you need to communicate with the app that contains your ServiceHost object, use custom events
19 Mar 2015 by Hrvoje Batrnek
Easy and seamless caching implementation of any virtual method in any class
28 Dec 2015 by Dhruti90
MVC functionalities with web service with simple integration
4 Jun 2017 by Puresharper
How to generate basic swagger yaml description for WCF automatically on build time with Swagger4WCF .NET 4.0+
10 Oct 2014 by Gerardo Recinto
Virtualization of RAM & Disk for high-speed, low-footprint & scalable data caching
16 Mar 2017 by Arthur Minduca
How to handle faults in WCF without declaring them explicitly
5 Jan 2011 by jerpat
How to get (almost) all your code in one place when using WCF together with Silverlight
31 Jul 2012 by Christian Amado
A very brief article about the implementation of encryption and decryption of a string in Silverlight Business Application
24 Dec 2014 by Alexander Batishchev
Implementing WCF behavior extension to run code on service launch
3 May 2016 by SSBO
Receive raw XML in WCF service
26 Oct 2016 by Jon McKee
Extending the ServiceHost class to support dependency injection
23 Feb 2011 by jasonalls
The solution in this tip will enable you to delete SSL certificates programmatically when you receive the error InvalidOperationException: Found multiple X.509 certificates.
2 Aug 2012 by Himanshu Thawait
WCF With No config file needed – all setting in code only, No IIS – Self hosted, consume by channel factory
28 Feb 2013 by Dav Zen
Simple and easy to use jQuery matrix 2D.
25 Feb 2015 by Mohsen Heydari
Intercepting WCF and SOAP services for logging SOAP envelope
25 Oct 2015 by Damon Du
This tip documents problems encountered in the process of learning WCF and Computer Network.
15 Mar 2018 by Dave M. (Member 10734106)
Develop a simple lite web server using WCF
12 Apr 2010 by Yaron Naveh
WCF Binding Box WCF Binding Box (online)Introduction Those of you who have worked with WCF can testify that: WCF configuration is hard. WCF security configuration is hard.After a while you get used to BasicHttpBinding or WSHttpBinding. But then comes a service which...
22 May 2011 by Jeremy Hutchinson
Or you can use T4 to generate a static class wrapper around the service. Then your call can look like this:SvcWrapper.Login(username, password);The full explanation and sample code is located here[^].
12 Jun 2015 by HUONG Minh-Luong
This tip explains how we can use PresentationRequestor to query presentation objects over WCF.
30 Jan 2010 by Nicolas Dorier
This is a short bat program to create a self signed key (with private key), if you call the bat "makecertif.bat", to create a key named ServerKey you need to type :makecertif.bat ServerKey, it will create ServerKey.pfx, a certificate with a private key you can use to secure a web site in...
27 Sep 2010 by Frozen Rain
There is a simple way to consume WCF from clients which do not support Microsoft's SOAP implementation. It is achieved by using REST to accept data and convert REST calls to SOAP calls with the PHP Framework.
2 Aug 2013 by Prasad Agarmore
Datacontract channelfactory WCF way of consuming SOAP web services written in C, C++ using gSoap framework on Linux platform
8 Apr 2014 by Rahul_Bansal
Remove the ‘Anonymous Authentication’ exception that occurs at the time of WCF service (3.5 framework) hosting on IIS
6 Dec 2014 by Valentino_Lokesh
This tip explains how to POST different kinds of data (string, XML, JSON or bytes) to a Single WCF REST Operation.
15 Feb 2015 by mozwizard
Out of frustration comes simplicity ...
29 Sep 2017 by Laszlo Voros
We force to hide an empty string-property by serializing with EmitDefaultValue
15 Jan 2019 by bclegg
Converting a synchronous WCF contract to an asynchronous one
30 Jul 2019 by Sunny Makode
There are several contents available on the internet that talk about injecting dependencies through .svc file's markup [in WCF service application] and it's easy when you have a WCF service application. But, it is equally easy to do that even in your WCF Library project (without .svc).
1 Nov 2015 by ASP.NET Community
Hosting a WCF Service with netTcpBinding on IIS7
18 Sep 2010 by michael_john_talbot
I needed a small footprint, highly performant binary, reflection based serializer for the project I am working on...
14 Apr 2010 by Sky Sanders
Mixing and matching security to get something like this locked down and providing the desired exposure might be challenging but I didn't offer to solve that in the title, did I?                   
23 Jul 2010 by Mahmudul Haque Azad
22 Nov 2011 by Bangla Gopal Surya Prakash
19 Mar 2012 by javieranton
A basic WCF call + callback example in C# using WSDualHttpBinding.
6 Apr 2012 by Henning Dieterichs
This tip shows how to change a WSDL-file to avoid the SFxCannotImportAsParameters_DifferentWrapperName-Exception, which is thrown when importing the WSDL-file in Visual Studio
24 Oct 2012 by Ramanujam Shankar
Show data in grid view control of Windows Stores App using web service or WCF
4 Nov 2012 by Michele Ziparo
An effective way to implement a caching system in Silverlight (MVVM) RIA
12 Dec 2012 by Michael Bendtsen
Implementing a service proxy that automatically closes the proxy after each call.
16 Jan 2013 by Houssem_Dellai
Developing the client and server side for a chat application.
4 Mar 2013 by Dima Zevelev
In this article I will talk about server failover and how to manage it.
25 Mar 2013 by SumitJaiswal
Knowledge sharing article on WWF.
6 Jun 2013 by Ankurkumarbora
This tip contains a solution for a Batch process which invokes a RESTful WCF Service.
17 Apr 2014 by muralikannan_t
How to pass values from one Silverlight application to another using WCF service
7 Jul 2014 by Anant Beriwal
How to avoid delay in Object Initialization of WCF client proxy in a Window service
7 Oct 2014 by Dominic Burford
Deploying your WCF web service to IIS
6 Aug 2015 by Math08avan
Hosting WCF Service - IIS Hosting
24 Sep 2015 by Phil Boyd
Adding support for PasswordDigest to WCF Service References
12 Nov 2015 by Eduardo Yost
Creating a Web User Control containing an AutoCompleteExtender for data through WCF (JSON) allowing to store the entity selected through EntityFramework. Entity object serialization from the server to the client and the client to the server.
11 Feb 2016 by Deependra Sampang
Usage of WCF for sending messages, WAS binding of MSMQ message queue for processing of messages, fail-over set up for MSMQ server
20 Nov 2023 by Zijian
Live with WCF in the .NET Core Landscape
24 Aug 2013 by Hasan Habib Surzo
Basic Server/Client Example using Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) programming
1 Apr 2014 by smoore4
Run programs on remote machines without PsExec or WMI
11 Nov 2010 by venugopalm
The underlying provider failed on Open Exception in WCF
4 Sep 2014 by Chathuranga Muthukumarana
MVC and jQuery with WCF Data Service
5 Dec 2013 by Infoteam SA
Two solutions to host a self-hosted WCF Service
10 Apr 2014 by Mirko Rezzin
Explain how to implement code generation and inheritance in a WCF service
18 May 2011 by Patrick Kalkman
Good Tip, got my 5!As an alternative to your tip, when using generated proxies you could also add the logic to a partial class with the same name as the proxy class, see below.public partial class MyGeneratedProxyClient : IDisposable{ void IDisposable Dispose() { try...
16 Oct 2014 by Assil
Just one way to solve a common problem of WCF timing out
24 Apr 2012 by Bangla Gopal Surya Prakash
How to build a security layer on top of your WCF RESTful service.
31 Jul 2015 by Manish_Kaushal
This tip provides a quick starter guide to create a RESTful JSON service in WCF.
8 Aug 2011 by Omar Al Zabir
WCF does not support Compression out of the box, so fix it
7 Jul 2014 by Michael Bergman
Using Windows Communication Foundation to build a simple web server
30 Oct 2014 by Dominic Burford
Exception handling in WCF
8 Sep 2008 by cesar_boucas
A custom derivative of ServiceHostFactory to control how WCF service hosts are created.
16 Feb 2015 by TalentTuner
In this article, I’ll describe how to use NetNamePipe binding in a WCF application.
23 Oct 2013 by Chaitanya Kolla
Adding the WS-Security Header to a request using the WCF bindings
5 Apr 2014 by Rahul_Bansal
Remove the ‘Anonymous Authentication’ exception that occurs at the time of WCF service (3.5 framework) hosting on IIS
17 May 2011 by Omar Al Zabir
Traditional using() block disposes WCF clients incorrectly when there's a communication exception, eg dropping network connection. It raises exception during the dispose and thus the resources held by the WCF client aren't released properly. After some time, you end up with memory leaks.
8 Jan 2015 by a.alghabban
How to use WCF to stream large file size over TCP
10 Dec 2012 by Luhuiya
Create a WCF service using wsHttpBinding and use in a Windows Forms application.
26 Aug 2013 by Kelvin Armstrong
GUI application for running SVCUtil to generate service model code
17 Jun 2013 by Kamalakumar
This is a simple chat program using WCF with NetTcp binding.
12 Sep 2012 by Alexandr Mihalciuc
This tip shows how to inject WCF proxies into controllers using Castle Windsor Interceptors.
10 Oct 2011 by OriginalGriff
Originally, I was going to create a simple Web Service using an ASMX file, but that appears to have been removed from Visual Studio 2010 - or at least I couldn't find it easily. So, WCF it is! I love the way technology lasts, don't you? Right, so I know nothing about WCF, tutorials here I come...
10 Sep 2010 by Shine K Velayudhan
Why and How to implement KnownType Attribute in WCF Service
16 Jan 2012 by Erion Pici
Generating automatized PDF reports based on Docx templates and Business-Logic XML-serialized data
14 Jul 2015 by Member 11832771
Hosting WCF REST Service on Windows Service
7 Mar 2013 by Sujeet Bhujbal
In this article I will show you the differences between WCF channel factory and proxy and when to use them.
21 Dec 2014 by Shah Ankita
How to join table and display data using WCF Service in MVC
5 Jan 2014 by User 10259217
Handy bridge between ASP.NET webservices and Java
6 Sep 2015 by jseijas2
In this tip, we will see how you make quick REST API from database defining the API in a configuration file.
29 Sep 2010 by Jon Paugh
WCF slow to respond
8 Jan 2011 by Anupama Roy
Different tools to unit test your WCF services
23 Dec 2015 by Dhruti90
MVC functionalities with Web Service with simple integration