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Calcium: A Modular Application Toolset Leveraging PRISM – Part 2

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.

Routing Manager for WCF4

by Roman Kiss

This article describes a design, implementation and usage of the Custom Routing Manager for managing messages via Routing Service built-in .Net 4 Technology.

Manageable Services

by Roman Kiss

This article describes a design, implementation and tooling of model driven WorkflowServices logically centralized in the Repository and physically decentralized for their runtime projecting.

Notification of Silverlight Applications about Database State Changes

by Max Paulousky

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.

Latest Articles

WCF Client For Web Services that Require Authorization by HTTP Header

by NikStar

Using OutgoingMessageProperties and OperationContextScope to implement authorization by http header for WCF client that communicates with non WCF-based web services.

WCF for the Real World, Not Hello World -- Revisited in the .NET Core Landscape

by Zijian

Live with WCF in the .NET Core Landscape

Fixing PlatformNotSupportedException when Running Window Communication Foundation Applications

by ToughDev

How to fix PlatformNotSupportedException when running WCF apps

Signing Documents in SharePoint with a Smart Card

by lvmcastro

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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Use Custom Events from your WCF ServiceHost

26 Jan 2011 by #realJSOP

When you need to communicate with the app that contains your ServiceHost object, use custom events

WCF Custom Binding

21 Feb 2013 by A Mahesh

In WCF, you can easily create custom bindings using configuration and custom implementations.

context enabled bindings and wcf durable services

21 Aug 2011 by A Mahesh

wcf durable services

BasicHttpBinding vs. WSHttpBinding

23 Aug 2011 by A Mahesh

Difference between BasicHttpBinding and WSHttpBinding

Transfer File Using WCF

8 Jan 2015 by a.alghabban

How to use WCF to stream large file size over TCP

How do I start a .NET WCF Windows Service automatically soon after the setup installation is complete

23 Jan 2012 by Abey Thomas

Start a .NET WCF Windows Service automatically soon after the setup installation is complete.

Windows-service

Consuming SAP PI Web Service without WSDL

19 Feb 2016 by Abhishek Shrotriya

This tip gives the very basic/simple implementation to interact with SAP PI webservice for authorized recipients.

The underlying connection was closed: The connection closed unexpectedly in EF 4.0

2 Mar 2012 by akhil khare

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The Underlying Connection Was Closed: The Connection Closed Unexpectedly in EF 4.0

8 Feb 2012 by akhil khare

The Underlying Connection Was Closed: The Connection Closed Unexpectedly in EF 4.0

Custom WCF Web Service Startup Method in Host Agnostic Environment

24 Dec 2014 by Alexander Batishchev

Implementing WCF behavior extension to run code on service launch

Injection of WCF proxies in ASP.NET MVC controllers using Castle Windsor

12 Sep 2012 by Alexandr Mihalciuc

This tip shows how to inject WCF proxies into controllers using Castle Windsor Interceptors.

WCF and Windows Services: Object Initialization of WCF Client Proxy Takes Too Much Time

7 Jul 2014 by Anant Beriwal

How to avoid delay in Object Initialization of WCF client proxy in a Window service

Service for solving Vehicle Routing Problem using genetic algorithms and C#

28 Aug 2013 by Andrii Cherednychenko

Article describes how vehicle routing problem can be solved using genetic algorithms. Performance of C# version and solution architecture are also briefly covered

A Batch process using RESTful WCF Service

6 Jun 2013 by Ankurkumarbora

This tip contains a solution for a Batch process which invokes a RESTful WCF Service.

Different tools to unit test your WCF services

8 Jan 2011 by Anupama Roy

Different tools to unit test your WCF services

How to Handle Faults in WCF without Declaring Them Explicitly

16 Mar 2017 by Arthur Minduca

How to handle faults in WCF without declaring them explicitly

Hosting WCF Service with netTcpBinding on IIS7

1 Nov 2015 by ASP.NET Community

Hosting a WCF Service with netTcpBinding on IIS7

How to Create WCF Timeout Operation Behavior

16 Oct 2014 by Assil

Just one way to solve a common problem of WCF timing out

Integrating REST Into an Existing C# Application

30 Apr 2012 by babzog

Most articles I read about REST and C# apps concerned themselves with starting fresh whereas I needed to add REST to an existing application. This articles describes the process.

Error: Cannot have two operations in the same contract with the same name

22 Nov 2011 by Bangla Gopal Surya Prakash

Error: The server encountered an error processing the request. See server logs for more details

22 Nov 2011 by Bangla Gopal Surya Prakash

Error: The Name property must be a non-empty string

22 Nov 2011 by Bangla Gopal Surya Prakash

Secure WCF RESTful service using OAUTH

24 Apr 2012 by Bangla Gopal Surya Prakash

How to build a security layer on top of your WCF RESTful service.

WCF Sync to Async Conversion

15 Jan 2019 by bclegg

Converting a synchronous WCF contract to an asynchronous one

A Custom ServiceHostFactory

8 Sep 2008 by cesar_boucas

A custom derivative of ServiceHostFactory to control how WCF service hosts are created.

Calling a service with oasis header in C#

23 Oct 2013 by Chaitanya Kolla

Adding the WS-Security Header to a request using the WCF bindings

MVC and jQuery with WCF Data Service

4 Sep 2014 by Chathuranga Muthukumarana

MVC and jQuery with WCF Data Service

Encrypt & Decrypt Strings in 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

How to: Implement Azure Key Vault in Legacy WCF Services using .NET Standard Library, .NET, C#, Azure, WCF, Architect, Design, Dev

4 Oct 2019 by cwesley

WCF Key vault implementation using .NET Standard

Create a Self-Hosted WCF Service - Beginner's Turorial For WCF

25 Oct 2015 by Damon Du

This tip documents problems encountered in the process of learning WCF and Computer Network.

ServiceHost --- WCF Communication Details - Part 1

24 Nov 2015 by Damon Du

Dig into the WCF inside and talk about WCF communication details, including how a WCF service is hosted, how channel layer works in WCF, and how messages are transported on the internet and so on.

Simple jQuery Carousel Matrix 2D AJAX

28 Feb 2013 by Dav Zen

Simple and easy to use jQuery matrix 2D.

Build Your Own Web Server Using WCF!

15 Mar 2018 by Dave M. (Member 10734106)

Develop a simple lite web server using WCF

WCF Binding with MSMQ and fail-over Cluster Implementation for MSMQ

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

Integration of MVC to WCF Service

23 Dec 2015 by Dhruti90

MVC functionalities with Web Service with simple integration

Integration of MVC to WCF Service

28 Dec 2015 by Dhruti90

MVC functionalities with web service with simple integration

Managing server failover in WCF

4 Mar 2013 by Dima Zevelev

In this article I will talk about server failover and how to manage it.

Deploying Your WCF Web Service to IIS

7 Oct 2014 by Dominic Burford

Deploying your WCF web service to IIS

Exception Handling in WCF

30 Oct 2014 by Dominic Burford

Exception handling in WCF

AutoCompleteExtender working with EntityFramework! (Reload 2015)

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.

A SOA Approach to Dynamic DOCX-PDF Report Generation - Part 2

16 Jan 2012 by Erion Pici

Generating automatized PDF reports based on Docx templates and Business-Logic XML-serialized data

Underappreciated Articles - The Number of Articles here on CodeProject is as we all know - HUGE - and Some Gems are Easily Lost in this Ocean of Knowledge

22 Mar 2013 by Espen Harlinn

Articles I feel, and hope, people will appreciate

IDisposable Works for WCF Services

30 Jan 2011 by Espen Harlinn

IDisposable works for WCF services

Another way of Consuming WCF from PHP, iPhone, JavaMobile, JSON clients

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.

10 Oct 2014 by Gerardo Recinto

Virtualization of RAM & Disk for high-speed, low-footprint & scalable data caching

Ever Try to Retrieve Relying Party Application Authenticated Under ACS (an Identity and Access Management Middleware) or the RP Identity Provider Name

26 Apr 2018 by Girish Kalamati

RETRIEVE RELYING PARTY APPLICATION name and RP IDP Names

Using WCF without a generated proxy, by using ChannelFactory

5 Jul 2010 by Gizz

Hello World, Basic Server/Client Example of WCF

24 Aug 2013 by Hasan Habib Surzo

Basic Server/Client Example using Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) programming

How to avoid SFxCannotImportAsParameters-DifferentWrapperName

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

code-generation

Selfhosted Secure WCF by Id password, custom validation

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

Open Chat using Azure and Windows RT

16 Jan 2013 by Houssem_Dellai

Developing the client and server side for a chat application.

Syrilium.Caching

19 Mar 2015 by Hrvoje Batrnek

Easy and seamless caching implementation of any virtual method in any class

How to use PresentationRequestor over WCF

12 Jun 2015 by HUONG Minh-Luong

This tip explains how we can use PresentationRequestor to query presentation objects over WCF.

Simple WCF web service to receive parameter from HTTP POST request body

25 Jan 2011 by Igor Merabishvili

Simple WCF web service to receive parameter from HTTP POST request body

How to host a WCF service without IIS in a development and production environment

5 Dec 2013 by Infoteam SA

Two solutions to host a self-hosted WCF Service

Programmatically Delete X.509 SSL Cetificates.

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.

Basic WCF Call + Callback example

19 Mar 2012 by javieranton

A basic WCF call + callback example in C# using WSDualHttpBinding.

Do not use "using" for WCF Clients

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[^].

WCF and Silverlight - Putting Your Code All Together

5 Jan 2011 by jerpat

How to get (almost) all your code in one place when using WCF together with Silverlight

Host WCF on LocalHost and access via Internet

1 Sep 2014 by Jitendra sondarva

Consume WCF service/ access WCF service, that hosted on Localhost (IIS 7.5 or IIS express)

Extending WCF: DependentServiceHost<T>

26 Oct 2016 by Jon McKee

Extending the ServiceHost class to support dependency injection

WCF First Call Slow

29 Sep 2010 by Jon Paugh

WCF slow to respond

REST API Made Easy with Supido

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.

Simple Chat program in C#

17 Jun 2013 by Kamalakumar

This is a simple chat program using WCF with NetTcp binding.

How to replace Machine Name with Domain name in WCF Service wsdl link

14 Nov 2010 by Kanasz Robert

HTTP status 404: Not Found error while accessing WCF service through an ASMX client

31 Dec 2009 by Karuna_Sorate

HTTP status 404: Not Found error while accessing WCF service through an ASMX clientI have personally faced this error without any accurate reasons explained in the server's log/trace. With some trial and error, I just managed to resolve it. Here is how it worked for me.Reason 1:If you...

SVCUtil User Interface

26 Aug 2013 by Kelvin Armstrong

GUI application for running SVCUtil to generate service model code

Dynamic Generation of Client Proxy at Runtime in WCF using a Single Factory

11 Apr 2014 by Krishnendu Ghosh

Dynamic Generation of Client Proxy at Runtime in WCF using a Single Factory

WCF, Entity Framework, and Data Contracts

11 Jan 2013 by Kumar_Jitendra

Expose an Entity Framework class entity as a data contract.

Convert Existing BizTalk WCF Service from “http” Binding to “netTCP” Binding

7 Jul 2014 by KundanKarma

It gives step by step approach.

Hide Empty String Property in WCF Serializing

29 Sep 2017 by Laszlo Voros

We force to hide an empty string-property by serializing with EmitDefaultValue

Create a WCF Service using wsHttpBinding and use in a Windows Forms application

10 Dec 2012 by Luhuiya

Create a WCF service using wsHttpBinding and use in a Windows Forms application.

File Upload using WCF REST API and JavaScript

28 Jul 2014 by lusgon

Uploading a file using WCF REST API and JavaScript

Request.Uri equivalent in WCF

23 Jul 2010 by Mahmudul Haque Azad

How To Create A REST Based JSON Service in WCF

31 Jul 2015 by Manish_Kaushal

This tip provides a quick starter guide to create a RESTful JSON service in WCF.

How to call WCF service using simple JavaScript

24 Dec 2010 by maq_rohit

WCF service

A Basic WCF Service using EF

22 Dec 2015 by MarcusCole6833

A basic tutorial on how to Use WCF service with the Entity Framework

Hosting WCF Service III

6 Aug 2015 by Math08avan

Hosting WCF Service - IIS Hosting

A Beginner's CRUD Using WCF in ASP.NET

16 Jul 2015 by Math08avan

A simple example for CRUD actions using WCF service in ASP.NET

SQL-Server-2012

What is KnownType Attribute and How to Use It in WCF Technology

4 Jun 2013 by mehr4n mousavi

What is KnownType attribute and how to use it

Creating a WCF Service with JSON Data and Using it on iOS

31 Mar 2013 by Melih Mucuk

Creating a WCF Service with JSON data for use on iOS

Method Overloading in WCF

19 Sep 2013 by Member 10409352

Issue of method overloading in WCF and solution.

WCF RESTful on Windows Service Host

14 Jul 2015 by Member 11832771

Hosting WCF REST Service on Windows Service

Creating and Closing of WCF Proxies

12 Dec 2012 by Michael Bendtsen

Implementing a service proxy that automatically closes the proxy after each call.

A Micro Web Server Using WCF

7 Jul 2014 by Michael Bergman

Using Windows Communication Foundation to build a simple web server

Silverlight Binary Serialization

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...

Cache System in Silverlight 5 RIA Application - Part 1 - Data Load

4 Nov 2012 by Michele Ziparo

An effective way to implement a caching system in Silverlight (MVVM) RIA

Code Generation And WCF Inheritance

10 Apr 2014 by Mirko Rezzin

Explain how to implement code generation and inheritance in a WCF service

ServicePredicateBuilder for creating Serializable Expressions

30 Nov 2015 by Mohammad Dayyan, VahidJafari

A library for creating .Net Serializable Expressions to send via WCF services

Logging SOAP Web Service Envelop (Request and Reply) in .NET

25 Feb 2015 by Mohsen Heydari

Intercepting WCF and SOAP services for logging SOAP envelope

WCF Service Hosted on "any binding, on Any Hosted Domain"

15 Feb 2015 by mozwizard

Out of frustration comes simplicity ...

Azure Cloud Service with ASP.NET MVC and WCF

10 Jul 2015 by Mukesh Pr@sad

This tip describes how to build an application in Azure Cloud with ASP.NET MVC and WCF.

Pass Values from One Silverlight Application to Another Silverlight Application using WCF Service

17 Apr 2014 by muralikannan_t

How to pass values from one Silverlight application to another using WCF service

Create self signed key...the easy way

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...

WCF Client For Web Services that Require Authorization by HTTP Header

24 Dec 2023 by NikStar

Using OutgoingMessageProperties and OperationContextScope to implement authorization by http header for WCF client that communicates with non WCF-based web services.

Gain More Performance in ASP Web API, Replace Standard Serialization with MessagePack

25 Jan 2013 by Oleksandr Kulchytskyi

Boost up your serialization in ASP.NET Web API.

WCF does not support Compression out of the box, so fix it

8 Aug 2011 by Omar Al Zabir

WCF does not support Compression out of the box, so fix it

Do not use "using" for WCF Clients

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.

How to get a basic WCF service working on a web hosting service

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...

Sending Spn in secured WCF Service

4 Feb 2010 by Palash Biswas

You have a WCF Service that needs a SPN from its client But We typically use client config file to send the spn using the below code: