In my previous post “Client Additional Parameters using Custom Headers in WCF“, I discussed about passing additional parameters from client in SOAP header with WCF service by implementing IClientMessageInspector, IEndPointBehavior and BehaviorExtensionElement. I am really glad to know that it help some of you. However, I have received some queries Read more…
When building Service communication applications using Windows Communication Foundation, we often come to a situation where we have multiple clients communicating with WCF Service and we need to pass additional parameters from client to service. This may be due to number of reasons such as sharing a unique customer ID Read more…
Recently,at office, our laptops were replaced by new Sony VAIO with Vista Business SP1. So today when I hosted WCF service in IIS 7.0. I got an error like HTTP Error 404.3 – Not Found Description: The page you are requesting cannot be served because of the Multipurpose Internet Mail Read more…
I recently gave an Introductory session on Windows Communication Foundation at Microsoft Innovation Center, Karachi – Pakistan (20th Mar’ 09). The targeted audience were industry professionals and the goal was to demonstrate them making WCF services. Following was the agenda of the session: Background What is WCF? WCF Service Model Read more…
Windows Communication Foundation(WCF) Services exposes endpoint(s) and each endpoint has information of ABC i.e. Address, Binding and Contract. Binding defines the underlying protocol, message encoding and transport details which are essential for client and service to communicate with each other. WCF provides several pre-configured bindings having different protocols, encoding scheme Read more…
Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is an integral part of .NET Framework 3.*. “It provides a unified framework for rapidly building service-oriented applications that makes it easy to build and consume secure, reliable, and transacted Web services. It unifies the capabilities in ASMX, WSE, Remoting, COM+, and MSMQ; therefore developers need Read more…