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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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WCF

.NET Coding Best Practices

20 Jan 2010 by Vinayaka Krishna Shenoy

.NET Coding Best Practices - Vinayak's thumb rulesDo not hard code strings/ numerics. Instead of that use constants as shown below.Bad practice int Count; Count = 100; if( Count == 0 ) { // DO something… }Good practice int Count; Count = 100; private...

A Basic WCF Service using EF

22 Dec 2015 by MarcusCole6833

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

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.

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

A Custom ServiceHostFactory

8 Sep 2008 by cesar_boucas

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

A Micro Web Server Using WCF

7 Jul 2014 by Michael Bergman

Using Windows Communication Foundation to build a simple web 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

Accessing Data through Web Service in Windows 8 Stores App - VS2012

24 Oct 2012 by Ramanujam Shankar

Show data in grid view control of Windows Stores App using web service or WCF

Adding a ajax/json endpoint to an existing WCF service

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?

Adding Support for PasswordDigest to WCF Service References

24 Sep 2015 by Phil Boyd

Adding support for PasswordDigest to WCF Service References

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.

ASP.NET Webservices in Java via kSOAP

5 Jan 2014 by User 10259217

Handy bridge between ASP.NET webservices and Java

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.

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.

Basic WCF Call + Callback example

19 Mar 2012 by javieranton

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

BasicHttpBinding vs. WSHttpBinding

23 Aug 2011 by A Mahesh

Difference between BasicHttpBinding and WSHttpBinding

Best Practices for creation of WCF proxy in .NET

23 Dec 2009 by Vinayaka Krishna Shenoy

Introduction...

Build a WCF Authentication Self-host App with SSL

25 Aug 2013 by yafeya

Build a username authentication WCF self-host application with SSL

Build Your Own Web Server Using WCF!

15 Mar 2018 by Dave M. (Member 10734106)

Develop a simple lite web server using WCF

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

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

Code Generation And WCF Inheritance

10 Apr 2014 by Mirko Rezzin

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

Configure WCF Service to REST

31 Oct 2014 by Shivarajbk

This tip explains how to write RESTFUL WCF service for Android applications.

Consuming OAUTH Enabled Restful WCF Service using JavaScript

10 Sep 2014 by Surya Kiran Bonugu

Client Web Application which consumes OAUTH enabled restful WCF service using JavaScript

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.

context enabled bindings and wcf durable services

21 Aug 2011 by A Mahesh

wcf durable services

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

7 Jul 2014 by KundanKarma

It gives step by step approach.

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.

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.

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...

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

Creating and Closing of WCF Proxies

12 Dec 2012 by Michael Bendtsen

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

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

Debug WCF REST Service.

21 Jun 2011 by RaisKazi

Dependency Injection in "WCF Service Library" Project with Self hosting

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).

Deploying Your WCF Web Service to IIS

7 Oct 2014 by Dominic Burford

Deploying your WCF web service to IIS

Design the WCF Service without Implementing Interface

31 Mar 2012 by Umesh Khandelwal

Design the WCF service without implementing interface

Detecting Client Connection in WCF Long Running Service (Heartbeat Implementation)

30 Sep 2014 by WaqaarRasool

Heartbeat Implementation in WCF Service in C#

Difference between Proxy and Channel Factory in WCF

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.

Different tools to unit test your WCF services

8 Jan 2011 by Anupama Roy

Different tools to unit test your WCF services

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.

Do not use "using" for WCF Clients

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...

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[^].

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

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

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

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

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

22 Nov 2011 by Bangla Gopal Surya Prakash

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

Exception Handling in WCF

30 Oct 2014 by Dominic Burford

Exception handling in WCF

Extending WCF: DependentServiceHost<T>

26 Oct 2016 by Jon McKee

Extending the ServiceHost class to support dependency injection

File Upload using WCF REST API and JavaScript

28 Jul 2014 by lusgon

Uploading a file using WCF REST API and JavaScript

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.

Generic WCF RestFul Service for an iPad Application

27 Aug 2012 by SONI Technologies (http://sonitechnology.com)

WCF Restful Service which accept data from iPad in any form. e.g JSON, XML, Plain text

Getting Unrecognized Attribute Target Framework Exception

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

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

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

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)

Hosting WCF Service III

6 Aug 2015 by Math08avan

Hosting WCF Service - IIS Hosting

Hosting WCF Service with netTcpBinding on IIS7

1 Nov 2015 by ASP.NET Community

Hosting a WCF Service with netTcpBinding on IIS7

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

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

How to call WCF service using simple JavaScript

24 Dec 2010 by maq_rohit

WCF service

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 Create WCF REST Service for Mobile App

18 Mar 2015 by tungnt185

This tip will show you how to create a WCF service return JSON use for mobile app.

How to Create WCF Timeout Operation Behavior

16 Oct 2014 by Assil

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

How to Generate Basic Swagger yaml Description for WCF Automatically on Build Time with Swagger4WCF .NET 4.0+

4 Jun 2017 by Puresharper

How to generate basic swagger yaml description for WCF automatically on build time with Swagger4WCF .NET 4.0+

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...

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

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

How to implement subcription based on WCF

15 Feb 2011 by WillCaptain

How to implement subcription based on WCF

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

14 Nov 2010 by Kanasz Robert

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.

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

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...

IDisposable Works for WCF Services

30 Jan 2011 by Espen Harlinn

IDisposable works for WCF services

Implementing KnownType Attribute

10 Sep 2010 by Shine K Velayudhan

Why and How to implement KnownType Attribute in WCF Service

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.

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.

Integration of MVC to WCF Service

28 Dec 2015 by Dhruti90

MVC functionalities with web service with simple integration

Integration of MVC to WCF Service

23 Dec 2015 by Dhruti90

MVC functionalities with Web Service with simple integration

Introduction to WCF

6 Apr 2015 by Santhakumar Munuswamy @ Chennai

This tip explains WCF and helps understand the difference between WCF and Web Services.

Joining Table and Display Data using WCF Service in MVC

21 Dec 2014 by Shah Ankita

How to join table and display data using WCF Service in MVC

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

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.

Method overloading in WCF

19 Dec 2010 by Pranay Rana

Method overloading in WCF

Method Overloading in WCF

19 Sep 2013 by Member 10409352

Issue of method overloading in WCF and solution.

Migrate from WCF Rest Services to Web API 2- Basics of Attribute Routing

11 Jan 2015 by RaviAakula

Web API 2- Basics of Attribute Routing

MVC and jQuery with WCF Data Service

4 Sep 2014 by Chathuranga Muthukumarana

MVC and jQuery with WCF Data Service

NetPipe Binding in WCF using window service

16 Feb 2015 by TalentTuner

In this article, I’ll describe how to use NetNamePipe binding in a WCF application.

NetTcp Binding in WCF using window service

16 Feb 2015 by TalentTuner

In this article, I’ll describe how to use NetTcp binding in a WCF application.

Open Chat using Azure and Windows RT

16 Jan 2013 by Houssem_Dellai

Developing the client and server side for a chat application.

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

Passing Object Collections to ASP.NET Web API

16 Jan 2014 by Tom Glick Philadelphia, US

POC to demonstrate passing of collections of complex objects to ASP.NET Web API Controllers.

Passing parameters to Success method in executeQueryAsync in SharePoint

21 Aug 2013 by shahed.sohail

Passing Parameters to Success method in executeQueryAsync.

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.

Remove the Anonymous Authentication Exception in WCF

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

Replay Failed Workflow

25 Mar 2013 by SumitJaiswal

Knowledge sharing article on WWF.

Request.Uri equivalent in WCF

23 Jul 2010 by Mahmudul Haque Azad

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.