Articles by Ido Flatow (Technical Blogs: 12)

WCF vs. ASP.NET Web APIs.

Today I answered a question in the Hebrew MSDN forums about consuming WCF from a .NET 2 client, using the "Add Web Reference” option of Visual Studio.Just in case you don't know Hebrew I'll sum it up for you – when adding a web reference to a WCF service that exposes a method of the following...

Creating customized standard endpoints in WCF 4.

This is the eighth post in the WCF 4.5 series. This post continues the previous posts on web-hosting features. This post is about the ASP.NET compatibility mode default change of WCF 4.5.Previous posts:1. What’s new in WCF 4.5? let’s start with WCF configuration2. What’s new in WCF 4.5? a single WSD

Improved streaming in IIS hosting

This is the seventh post in the WCF 4.5 series.

This is the sixth post in the WCF 4.5 series.

This is the fourth post in the WCF 4.5 series, and a direct addition to the previous post, since I neglected to mention something important about editing configuration files in WCF 4.5 and Visual Studio 11 – validations during editing and compilation.

Calling a WCF service from a client without having the contract interface

This is the tenth post in the WCF 4.5 series.

This is the 11th post in the WCF 4.5 series. The previous post was about the new UDP transport support, and this new post is also about new transports – the WebSocket transport. This post is part 1 of 2. This post will be about the WebSocket support between .NET apps using WCF (SOAP-based), and the

WebSocket support with plain text messages that enables the interaction between web browsers and WCF.