WCF Service Application retain it's information

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Hi, I am a CS student in their summer break.

I'm anxious to go back, waiting till Fall Semester. I am kind of new to WCF. I have read that Web Services == WCF. I am wondering if there is a way to retain data when I use my service. Because each time I run the service, it doesn't retain my data. So I was thinking of having some sort of external data. Where it will hold this.

I am trying to figure out if there is some fancy way the WCF can retain it's data even after the OS refreshes the service? If not, I was thinking of making it hold the data by creating a folder and text files. Any good ideas?

Posted 6-Jul-11 13:58pm

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Mark Salsbery · Accepted Answer · 2011-07-06T14:21:00

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Web services does not equal (!=) WCF. There's a variety of web services available besides WCF.

WCF deals with communication between endpoints and doesn't deal with data and what you do with it once it gets to an endpoint.

Data is often stored in databases like SQL server. You could also store it in files. Any persistent storage will work, but it's up to you to provide the functionality.

Posted 6-Jul-11 14:21pm

Mark Salsbery

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 7-Jul-11 2:48am

Right, my 5.
--SA

Member 8015046 7-Jul-11 11:04am

Which web service do you recommend?

Mark Salsbery 8-Jul-11 13:04pm

You need to research alternatives and choose what's best for you :). I personally am able to host on Windows server platform and use IIS so I really like (and use) WCF. Makes for rapid development, is flexible with hosting options, and flexible in configuration. WCF RIA Services (for Silverlight apps) is nice too. I also use IHttpHandler implementations when I need a simple service that I have full control over. There's also ASP.NET web services.