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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.

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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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(413) Request Entity Too Large

13 Jan 2013 by Tharaka MTR

A solution to the problem

.NET Framework 3.0 Buffet

27 Dec 2006 by Anil Kr. Sharma

.NET Framework 3.0 primer.

.NET Gridview with AJAX and REST Web Services

31 Aug 2010 by Livio Francescucci

How to create an ASP.NET gridview AJAX enabled connected with WCF SOAP and REST webservices.

.NET Library to Easily Save Property Data

12 May 2014 by Brad Joss

[RegSave] your property to the Registry, and more.

12 reasons to consume OData feeds using Simple.OData.Client

22 Nov 2013 by Vagif Abilov

The article describes limitations of WCF Data Services client and shows how Simple.OData.Client can become a better alternative

3 Ways to generate proxy for WCF Service

16 Jun 2014 by Imran Abdul Ghani

In Windows Communication Foundation, for a client application to communicate with a WCF Service, we have following options: Using ChannelFactory Generating Proxies I have already discussed about difference between ChannelFactory and Proxies in one of my previous WCF Tutorial on this blog. In this ar

4 Simple Steps to Consume WCF Service using Silverlight

13 Aug 2010 by Shivprasad koirala

4 simple steps to consume WCF service using Silverlight

4 Steps to Enable Instrumentation in WCF

28 Mar 2010 by Shivprasad koirala, Anup Hosur

4 steps to enable instrumentation in WCF

5 Simple Steps to Create Your First RESTful Service

23 Sep 2013 by Imran Abdul Ghani

5 simple steps to create your first RESTful service

6 Steps to Implement DUAL Security on WCF using User name + SSL

20 May 2010 by Shivprasad koirala

6 steps to implement DUAL security on WCF using User name + SSL

7 Simple Steps to Connect SQL Server using WCF from SilverLight

12 Aug 2010 by Shivprasad koirala

In this article, we will look at how we can do database operations using SilverLight.

A Beginner's Guide to Duplex WCF

8 May 2013 by Ger Hayden

The purpose of this article is to create a service which accepts messages from any client and redistributes those messages to all subscribed clients, and a client that can subscribe to the service, send messages to it and receive unrelated messages from it regardless of how many it sends.

A Beginner's Guide to Silverlight

11 Dec 2011 by Raj Lal

Chapter 11 of "Fun with Silverlight 4" More information at http://silverlightfun.com

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A Beginner's Tutorial for Understanding Exception Handling, FaultExceptions and FaultContracts in WCF

1 Mar 2013 by Rahul Rajat Singh

This article discusses about exception handling in WCF services, FaultExceptions and introduces the FaultContract.

A Beginner's Tutorial for Understanding WCF Instance Management

2 Apr 2013 by Rahul Rajat Singh

This article discusses about the various ways of managing the WCF service class instances.

A Beginner's Tutorial for Understanding Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)

13 Dec 2012 by Rahul Rajat Singh

We will try to see the basic concepts behind WCF and will try to implement a small WCF service.

A Beginner's Tutorial on Creating WCF REST Services

3 Apr 2013 by Rahul Rajat Singh

In this article we will try to understand what are WCF REST services and how can we create one.

A Beginner's Tutorial on How to Host a WCF Service (IIS Hosting and Self Hosting)

22 Feb 2013 by Rahul Rajat Singh

In this article we will see how we can host a WCF service(IIS Hosting and Self Hosting).

A Beginner's Tutorial on Managing Sequence of Operations in WCF Service

25 Mar 2013 by Rahul Rajat Singh

This article talks about managing sequence of operations in a WCF service.

A beginner’s guide for consuming a WCF service in JavaScript using ASP.NET AJAX

9 Feb 2009 by Rahman Masudur

Shows how to use WCF in JavaScript.

A beginner’s guide to WCF in XBAP

9 Feb 2009 by Rahman Masudur

This article shows how to use a WCF service in XBAP or a WPF browser application.

A closer look at Windows Communication Foundation

29 Jan 2007 by jdkulkarni

The article describes details of WCF and also has source code for different types of binding.

A Customisable ORM for Multi-tier Applications

19 Jun 2014 by Simon Gulliver

How to write your own customised ORM, targeted at multi-tier applications

A Developer's First Look at Visual Studio 2010

19 Sep 2009 by jebarson

New features of Visual Studio 2010 discussed

A first look at the Windows Web Services API

27 Jul 2009 by Nish Nishant

The article shows how to interop between a WCF service and a WWS client, and also how to rewrite the WCF service in WWS retaining compatibility with existing WCF clients.

A Generic Class for Wrapping Asynchronous Begin/End Operations, Using Reactive Extensions for .NET (Rx)

3 Feb 2010 by User 4677916

This article presents a reusable class and technique for easily doing Asynchronous Programming using the Begin/End Pattern and the new Reactive Extensions for .NET (Rx) library.

A More Efficient AJAX Progress Bar for ASP.NET

27 Jan 2016 by wells cheung

AJAX Progress Bar for ASP.NET.

A More Flexible and Secure Method to Configure Silverlight Applications Using the Web.config File from ASP.NET

3 Feb 2010 by Dr. Song Li

This article introduces a more flexible and secure method to configure Silverlight applications using the Web.config file from the ASP.NET host application.

A N-Tier Architecture Sample with ASP.NET MVC3, WCF, and Entity Framework

11 Sep 2012 by Ws Hu

This article tries to introduce a decoupled, unit-testable, deployment-flexible, implementation-efficient and validation-flexible N-Tier architecture in .NET

A Quick and Dirty WCF Service and Client (Using WCF and Winforms)

14 May 2007 by Jason Henderson

An example of how to use Windows Communication Foundation services.

A Robust and Elegant Single Instance WPF Application Approach Using WCF

18 May 2017 by Jon Campbell

How to utilize WCF to allow a single instance of any WPF application without needing mutexes, extra assemblies, or special "hacks".

A Rolling XmlWriterTraceListener

15 Nov 2008 by marc_anic

A derivation of XmlWriterTraceListener that manages the size of your trace files automatically

A Silverlight Introduction for Line-of-Business Applications

30 Aug 2009 by Xavier Spileers

An introduction on Silverlight for developers of administrative applications. The article starts by explaining the basics of WPF and then delves deeper in the business-oriented aspects.

A Silverlight Sample Built with Self-Tracking Entities and WCF Services - Part 2

8 Mar 2011 by Weidong Shen

Part 2 of a series describing the creation of a Silverlight business application using Self-tracking Entities, WCF Services, WIF, MVVM Light Toolkit, MEF, and T4 Templates.

A Silverlight Sample Built with Self-Tracking Entities and WCF Services - Part 3

8 Mar 2011 by Weidong Shen

Part 3 of a series describing the creation of a Silverlight business application using Self-tracking Entities, WCF Services, WIF, MVVM Light Toolkit, MEF, and T4 Templates.

A Silverlight Sample Built with Self-Tracking Entities and WCF Services - Part 4

12 Apr 2011 by Weidong Shen

Part 4 of a series describing creation of a Silverlight business application using Self-tracking Entities, WCF Services, WIF, MVVM Light toolkit, MEF, and T4 Templates.

A simple peer to peer chat application using WCF netPeerTcpBinding

24 Jan 2007 by jdkulkarni

A sample to demonstrate the use of netPeerTcpBinding in WCF

A simple POC using ASP.NET Web API, Entity Framework, Autofac, Cross Domain Support

27 Oct 2012 by Anand Ranjan Pandey

The purpose of this article is to create a proof of concept to demonstrate the feasibility of ASP.NET Web API Beta Version.

A Simple Sample: WCF Service

1 Nov 2010 by syntaxed

Writing, configuring, and consuming a WCF Service using VS2010

A Simple Silverlight RSS Reader

21 Jun 2010 by Arun Jacob

This is a simple Silverlight RSS Reader which pulls out data from a feed URL.

A Simple Solution to Some Problems with Asynchrony in Silverlight

9 Mar 2010 by George Henry 1954

A small, extensible suite of classes that elegantly solve some common problems involving asynchrony and event handling that tend to occur when Silverlight and WCF are used together.

A SOA Approach to Dynamic DOCX-PDF Report Generation - Part 1

23 Aug 2010 by Erion Pici

Generating docx reports in a client-server architecture, without using MS Office

A Step by Step WCF Small Program For Beginners

3 Jun 2009 by divyaloksuman

A Step by Step WCF Small Program For Beginners

A Test Harness with WatiN, TestDriven.NET, NUnit with Visual Studio 2008 (Team System)

15 Sep 2008 by Khandakar Fazley Rabbi

UI and Functional Testing through different Tools using .NET Technology

A WCF Review and How to Debug It

17 Jun 2008 by aSarafian

A WCF review from the perspective of bussiness application development, and some debugging problem solving hints.

A WCF service to expose the core functions of a smart card

1 Feb 2013 by orouit

This article introduces a WCF service to expose the core functions necessary to communicate with a smart card.

A WCF-WPF Chat Application

15 Apr 2008 by Islam ElDemery

An Internet chat application with file transfer.

A Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) Overview

18 Sep 2008 by Deepthi Viswanathan Nair

This article talks about the Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and how to consume it in applications. It describes the WCF model, and is a quick introduction for beginners.

Abstract Nonsense in Software Development. Real-time

7 Jan 2014 by Petr Ivankov

Application of abstract approach to real-time.

Active Directory Webservices for DevOps

27 Oct 2015 by saddam abu ghaida

Active Directory Web services which handles Authentication, SSO for other apps, aside from Native Routines

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Add custom headers to a WCF channel

3 Jun 2009 by RahulT07

This piece describes how to add custom headers to a WCF channel and how to use them.

Add Custom Message Header in WCF 4 Calls

22 Mar 2012 by Sandeepkumar Ramani

How to add a custom message header in WCF 4 calls

Adding New Database Reports to .NET Client Apps Without Re-Deployment - An Odyssey Through Dynamic LINQ and Reflection Hackery

8 Jun 2012 by Adam David Hill

This article solves the problem of having to redeploy everything whenever you create a new stored procedure database report.

Advanced using OData in .NET: WCF Data Services

16 Dec 2010 by Vincent-Philippe Lauzon

Samples showcasing usage of OData in .NET (WCF Data Services); samples go in increasing order of complexity, addressing more and more advanced scenarios.

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Adventures into Ink API using WPF

7 Jun 2007 by Sacha Barber

Adventures into Ink API using WPF

Aggregating Services with a RoutingService

1 May 2012 by m0sa

Service aggregation of self hosted WCF services, using the built-in RoutingService .NET Framework class.

AJAX, WCF, LINQ to Entities demo application

1 Feb 2009 by Kurush Rastkar

Using most of the recent technologies in one application

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An easy to use WPF Autocomplete Textbox

10 Jul 2014 by Eric Pap

An easy to use custom control basedon textbox that allows Autocomplete, compatible with WCF

An easy way to use certificates for WCF security

30 Apr 2007 by Davide Icardi

An easy solution to use certificates on Windows Communication Foundation loading the certificates from files

An example WCF data surrogate implementation

29 Nov 2016 by Kemeny Attila

A complete example of using the WCF data contract surrogate

An Experiment on Fluid Services for Highly Responsive, Scalable and Reusable SOA Services

7 Sep 2010 by I. Benian

An experiemental streaming implementation to reduce response time and increase throughput for highly composable/scalable web services.

Angular JS Dynamic Menu Creation using MVC and WCF Rest

23 Jun 2015 by syed shanu

This article shows how to create a menu dynamically from a database using AngularJS, MVC and WCF Rest service.

Angular JS Filter, Sorting and Animation using MVC and WCF Rest

8 Jul 2015 by syed shanu

How to use AngularJs Filter, AngularJs Sort, AngularJs Animation, Image Mouse Over and Mouse Out Event

Angular Single-Page Applications - Cool Privilege Control System

29 Mar 2016 by wells cheung

Angular Single-Page Application, MEF, Privilege Control, WCF Restful Service, ui-router,

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App Inventor communicating with WCF Service using TinyWebDb interface

2 Sep 2014 by Pavel Sinkevich

Implement TinyWebDb interface on WCF Service to communicate with Android application developed with App Inventor

AppFabric Caching Extension

2 Jan 2012 by MadhurimaS

A component which can be plugged to a WCF service or any other client to utilize AppFabric caching features

Application Integration through Microsoft Technologies

28 Feb 2007 by Naveed Bajwa

Describes Application Integration and discusses Different Microsoft technologies Related to Application integration

Applied Long-Running Active Object Pattern

4 Feb 2010 by igor2010

How to use Active Object pattern to carry out long-running tasks

Array instead of List in WCF

28 Nov 2009 by Artem S. Dmitriev

This article describes the differences between using arrays and generic lists in WCF.

ASP.NET 3.5 Sample Application of LINQ, WFC, JSON, and AJAX

4 Sep 2008 by ToddHileHoffer

A simple sample of LINQ, WCF, JSON, and AJAX.

ASP.NET AJAX 4.0 Template Programming - Part I

28 Jun 2009 by M Sheik Uduman Ali

An article describes ASP.NET AJAX 4.0 template programming with DataView and DataContext

ASP.NET Lazy Content Loading Through WCF REST Service

26 Mar 2010 by PSK_

Using WCF REST services to implement dynatree plug-in of jQuery for Lazy loading of child nodes

Aspect Oriented RequestObject(DTO) Validation in WCF with FluentValidation and CastleWindsor

15 Feb 2016 by Oğuzhan Soykan

Automated monkey or specific validations for WCF or REST services with Fluentvalidation and CastleWindsor

Async/Await in WPF to invoke WCF with Busy Indicator and Abort Feature

30 Nov 2015 by Nejimon CR

Implement WCF web service access from WPF with busy indicator and premature cancellation feature without using delegates, background worker, or separate event procedure

Asynchronous Communication in a WCF Service

25 Oct 2010 by Maind Amar

Asynchronous communication between a WCF Service and a console client.

Authentication and Authorization with ASP.NET Identity 2.0 for WCF Services

18 Sep 2016 by Zijian

Real world WCF project structure, Authentication and Authorization

Autogenerate DataContracts for WCF from POCO Classes

7 Dec 2016 by Kuv Patel

Convert a class library of POCO classes to datacontracts for use with WCF without having to write DataContract and DataMember attributes directly to the POCO classes.

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Automatic Culture Flowing with WCF by using Custom Behaviour

30 Nov 2007 by Patrick Kalkman

An article to demonstrate culture flow from Windows client to Windows server using WCF.

Automatic Dump Collection and Analysis

15 Jul 2014 by Dan Hu

Automatic Dump collection and Analysis

Avoiding and fixing unexpected memory issues in .NET applications

1 Nov 2013 by Redgate Software

How to track down and fix unexpected memory leaks - a worked example

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Avoiding the Pitfalls of 3rd Party Components in a Large Data Processing Application

4 Oct 2013 by Redgate Software

How a Software Engineer at an Australian defence contractor tracked down a memory leak and improved performance of a complex application handling high-speed data visualization.

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Azure Developer Contest Outline

24 Apr 2013 by Tom White2

Automating Fantasy Sports Decisions With Cloud Services

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Azure WCF RESTULL Service with HTTP GET and POST methods sample tested by Postman

20 Apr 2015 by Sergey Kizyan

This is a sample article that describes ho to implement RESTfull service for Azure for both GET and POST methods

Azure: SQL Azure

9 Nov 2014 by Sacha Barber

SQL Azure

Basic Authentication on a WCF REST Service

28 Feb 2011 by Patrick Kalkman

An assembly that adds Basic Authentication to an IIS hosted WCF REST service to validate against any back-end.

Basic Step by Step WCF WebService

14 Feb 2016 by wembikon

Basic steps in creating and consuming a simple WCF web service.

BasicHttpBinding with Custom Authorization

24 Feb 2015 by Joe Murphy

Monitor Network Traffic for BasicHttpBinding WCF call using Wireshark

Beautiful Prototype autocomplete Easy to Use

31 Jan 2011 by Dav Zen

A beautiful ASP.NET Ajax Webcontrol which is easy to use

Best Practice Architecture with Workflow Foundation (WF)

10 Jun 2012 by ManojKumar19

This article demonstrates how WF can be consumed as a business layer.

BikeInCity 2 - KnockoutJS, JQuery, Google Maps

18 May 2012 by hoonzis

This article describes how to use KnockoutJS, JQuery and Google Maps to create a responsive GUI of web applications. The usage of MVVM helps to keep JavaScript code organized and easy to evolve and maintain.

Binary Serialization to Isolated Storage in Silverlight - BinaryFormatter vs. sharpSerializer

6 Oct 2010 by Pawel idzikowski

How to serialize binary data to IsolatedStorage in a Silverlight client when there is no BinaryFormatter in Silverlight? Why not with sharpSerializer? - An open source XML and binary serializer for .NET and Silverlight

BinaryFormatter vs. Manual Serializing

13 Jan 2012 by kosmoh

Comparison of serializing with BinaryFormatter (standard .NET class) against manual per-byte serializing; some pros and cons before selecting the right method for you.

Bing Maps in SharePoint 2010 Web Part

17 May 2010 by Raj Dhrolia

This article shows how to create a simple web part in SharePoint 2010 and use Bing Maps service to render maps.

BizTalk ESB Exception Handling – Consuming WCF Services – Part II

4 Nov 2012 by Grant Harmer

Managing exceptions when consuming WCF services via the BizTalk ESB Toolkit - Part II

BizTalk ESB Exception Handling – Consuming WCF Services – Part III

3 Nov 2012 by Grant Harmer

Managing exceptions when consuming WCF services via the BizTalk ESB Toolkit - Part III

Book Review: WCF 4.0 multi-tier services development with LINQ-to-Entities

3 Sep 2010 by Peter Ritchie

A review of "WCF 4.0 multi-tier services development with LINQ-to-Entities"

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Branching Authentication in ASP.NET Core 2.1

13 Nov 2018 by Vlad Neculai Vizitiu

Branching authentication in ASP.NET Core 2.1

Build a Silverlight Web Chatroom with Multiple Rooms and Private Chat - Part 2

16 Mar 2009 by junnark

In Part 1, we built a simple web chat using Silverlight 2. We are going to add functionalities so that users are able to choose from multiple chat rooms as well as chat privately with other users.

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Building a Web Message Board using Visual Studio 2008, Part I - The Basic Message Board

30 Dec 2007 by Rama Krishna Vavilala

This article builds a web based message board and uses several new technologies introduced with Visual Studio 2008 such as LINQ, WCF Web Programming, WCF Syndication, ASP.NET ListView, ASP.NET DataPager etc.

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Building and Testing a WCF Web Service Using Workflow Foundation 4.0

22 Jul 2010 by MMuazzamAli

Guide to build and test a simple Web Service in Workflow Foundation 4.0.