Windows Communication Foundation has steadily evolved to better support SOA and Web services. Here's how to get the most out of your WCF-based services architecture. If you want to exploit ...

I've got a WCF web service used by our business partners that regulations say that we need to log every call and every argument passed into the calls. In the old IIS/ASMX days there were convenient ...

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Until REST APIs came along, SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) was the de facto standard protocol on which web services were based. When working in ASP.Net Core, you might well encounter the need to ...

Sending credentials automatically to Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) Web Service can make your client application more dynamic. Transport security (HTTPS) is used in WCF projects for ...

Peter Vogel introduces WCF 4.5's support for WebSockets first by describing why you care and then by setting up to build a bi-directional service using Windows Server 8, and Visual Studio 11. Web ...

In this post I’ll present a discussion on WCF service design and performance guidelines and the recommended best practices. In future posts in this series of ...