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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.

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Generate C# Client API for ASP.NET Web API

by Zijian

Generate strongly typed client API in C# for ASP.NET Web API and .NET Core Web API supporting desktop, Universal Windows, Android and iOS

Build Data-Driven Web Apps Blazing Fast with Blazor and OData

by Jeremy Likness

Build data-driven .NET applications with seamless client-server communication using fluent C# LINQ over OData (like GraphQL but without the JSON).

How to: Implement Azure Key Vault in Legacy WCF Services using .NET Standard Library, .NET, C#, Azure, WCF, Architect, Design, Dev

by cwesley

WCF Key vault implementation using .NET Standard

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

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).

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Introduction to Model Driven Development with Sculpture – Part 1

3 Sep 2008

Ahmed Negm

This article introduces how to create and manage .NET enterprise applications using your favorite technology (Data Access Application Block, LINQ, NHibernate, ASMX, and WCF) with the Model Driven Development approach by Sculpture.

SQL-Server-2005

Manageable Services

30 Apr 2009

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.

Calcium: A Modular Application Toolset Leveraging PRISM – Part 2

23 Nov 2009

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.

Windows Workflow (WF) as a WCF Service

17 Jul 2009

eyedia

Sequential workflow as a WCF service. Create workflow custom activities, invoke child workflow from parent. Configure workflow runtime service using a config file. Basic idea of rules, creating a rule using the rule editor. Applying rules during runtime.

HTTP Binary Serialization through ASP.NET without WCF

15 Aug 2009

Ricardo Pineda Then

Shows how to serialize an object using binary serialization without using WCF.

How to enable multi-hop impersonation using constrained delegation in .NET and Active Directory

18 Aug 2009

sravan kumar surabhi, Ken Hadden

A step-by-step guide to help solve a common authentication problem faced by .NET multi-tier developers.

Using WF4 WorkflowInvoker

1 Sep 2009

Roman Kiss

This article describes a design, implementation and usage of the custom service operation invoker for invoking a xaml workflow. It is based on the upcoming Microsoft .NET 4 Technology.

Handling SoapException Detail with a WCF Client from a Web Service

4 Nov 2009

Larry Aultman

How to catch and handle ASMX based SOAP exceptions in a WCF client.

Notification of Silverlight Applications about Database State Changes

27 Nov 2009

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.

SQL-Server-2005

WCF Service over HTTPS with custom username and password validator in IIS

19 Feb 2010

Ondra Spilka

How to host a WCF HTTPS service with a custom username validator, in IIS.

Many to One Local IPC using WCF and NetNamedPipeBinding

8 Mar 2010

Lance Roberts

I needed to talk between one server process and multiple client processes, this was a simple test harness to prove it

Synchronous WCF Service Calls with Silverlight

16 Mar 2010

Valentin Billotte

How to make TRUE sync call in Silverlight

ySurf : A Yahoo! Messenger clone built in Silverlight

28 Mar 2010

Vinit Yadav

A Yahoo! messenger clone application built with Silverlight and its Duplex Polling WCF service. Explains how to deal with the Yahoo! packet format named YMSG.

Routing Manager for WCF4

29 Apr 2010

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.

Summarizing Client Side Asynchronous Invocations in WCF/WCF Silverlight

18 Apr 2010

Tamas Koszoru

Summarizing client side asynchronous invocations in WCF/WCF Silverlight. Introducing ServiceClient class.

A SOA Approach to Dynamic DOCX-PDF Report Generation - Part 1

23 Aug 2010

Erion Pici

Generating docx reports in a client-server architecture, without using MS Office

WCF by Example - Chapter VII - Decoupling of WCF Services from the ViewModel

11 Oct 2011

Enrique Albert

Baseline WCF Distribution Layer - Decoupling of WCF Services and ViewModels.

Web RSS Builder Part 1: Building Generic XML Data Source for ASP.NET and Silverlight

5 Nov 2010

SofianH

A description of the open source Web RSS Builder

Web RSS Builder Part 2: The ASP.NET Application

5 Nov 2010

SofianH

A description of the open source Web RSS Builder

Web RSS Builder Part 3: The Silverlight Application

5 Nov 2010

SofianH

A description of the open source Web RSS Builder

WCF by Example - Chapter XIV - Validation & Exception Management

25 Oct 2012

Enrique Albert

WPF Validation using the IDataErrorInfo interface combined with Validation attributes

SQL-Server-2005

WCF Support for WSDL 2.0

12 Feb 2011

Yaron Naveh

A command line utility to generate WCF proxies from WSDL 2.0 documents.

Introducing the Composite Data Service Framework

27 Nov 2011

Dave Kerr

Use a single Data Service to expose data from many sources with the Composite Data Service Framework!

AppFabric Caching Extension

2 Jan 2012

MadhurimaS

A component which can be plugged to a WCF service or any other client to utilize AppFabric caching features

What’s New in WCF 4.5? WebSocket Support (Part 2 of 2)

6 Mar 2012

Ido Flatow

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

Caching WCF javascript proxy on browser

4 Apr 2012

Omar Al Zabir

WCF Javascript Proxies (Service.svc/js) are never cached. They get generated and downloaded on every page view thus increasing page download time and server CPU. Here's an HttpModule to cache WCF Javascript Proxy on browser and respond with HTTP 304, if unchanged.

Making WCF Service reference configurable from web.config in Silverlight application

22 Apr 2012

ManojKumar19

How to make WCF service reference configurabe for Silverlight project(makes easy for deploying on severs like Dev, QA, UAT etc.)

Wcf.js: Call WCF web services from Node.js

8 May 2012

Yaron Naveh

Call existing web services from within Node apps.

BikeInCity 2 - KnockoutJS, JQuery, Google Maps

18 May 2012

hoonzis

This article describes how to use KnockoutJS, JQuery and Google Maps to create a responsive GUI of web applications. The usage of MVVM helps to keep JavaScript code organized and easy to evolve and maintain.

Conditional WCF DataContract Serialization (Using DataContractSurrogate)

11 Jul 2012

Sumit Chawla

How to add conditional DataContract Serialization in a declarative manner.

Support for JSONP in WCF REST services

9 Jul 2012

Thrivikram Hathwar

Sample to demonstrate building a cross domain script enabled WCF REST service and consuming it in a web app.

Real-time SPC Web Application for iPad/Android tablet using jQuery/AJAX/AJAX enabled WCF Service

18 Dec 2013

Gokuldas

Real time SPC is a Web Application for iPad and Androind using HTML5 and jQuery AJAX.

Measuring and Monitoring WCF Web Service Performance

4 Oct 2012

Stuart Wheelwright

Using ServiceMon to obtain performance statistics for web services

BizTalk ESB Exception Handling – Consuming WCF Services – Part II

4 Nov 2012

Grant Harmer

Managing exceptions when consuming WCF services via the BizTalk ESB Toolkit - Part II

BizTalk ESB Exception Handling – Consuming WCF Services – Part III

3 Nov 2012

Grant Harmer

Managing exceptions when consuming WCF services via the BizTalk ESB Toolkit - Part III

Creating a Generic (Static and Unchanging) WCF Interface

11 Dec 2012

Aron Weiler

Learn how to create a static and unchanging WCF interface that still supports most WCF capabilities.

WCF in a stateful application (WPF/Silverlight)

9 Apr 2013

David J Rundle

Handling the Faulted state and Closure of a WCF service when being used in a stateful application.

A WCF service to expose the core functions of a smart card

1 Feb 2013

orouit

This article introduces a WCF service to expose the core functions necessary to communicate with a smart card.

Windows-Service for Multithreading with Remote Control GUI

25 Feb 2016

J.Starkl

A windows-service which can handle different operations in separate threads and which can be controlled by a small GUI program

A Beginner's Tutorial on Managing Sequence of Operations in WCF Service

25 Mar 2013

Rahul Rajat Singh

This article talks about managing sequence of operations in a WCF service.

Async/Await in WPF to invoke WCF with Busy Indicator and Abort Feature

30 Nov 2015

Nejimon CR

Implement WCF web service access from WPF with busy indicator and premature cancellation feature without using delegates, background worker, or separate event procedure

Azure is Not Smart, It is a Genius

2 May 2013

Ahmed Gaber (Biga)

This article is for "Discover the Cloud" challenge.

LightSwitch HTML Picture Manager Using WCF RIA Services

18 Apr 2013

defwebserver

This is a Visual Studio LightSwitch HTML Picture File Manager that uses WCF RIA Services to upload and view files on the web server.

WCF 4.5 Services Development with Entity Framework and MVC 4

15 Oct 2013

Balimusi

WCF 4.5 Services Development using Entity Framework and MVC 4 front-end

eDude

6 May 2013

Ashish_Avinash

eDude is multifaceted application which will act as a helping hand to the user in many ways. There will be broadly two categories Emergency Help and non-emergency help.

Creating PDF Documents from XML

16 Aug 2013

Marco Merola

Creating PDF documents from XML

Securing Your .NET Applications – A Summary Review Of Visual Guard

10 Nov 2014

Dirk_Strauss

Securing Your .NET Applications – A Summary Review Of Visual Guard

Using WebSocket in .NET 4.5 (Part 4)

29 Jul 2013

Zhuyun Dai

Using WebSocket with Microsoft.WebSockets.dll.

Gestur - Health Carer Solution

12 Aug 2013

jmgleiser

Windows App Store solution with GPS and NFC capabilities

Learn About Places (LAP)

22 Aug 2013

dhruv chaudhary

LAP provides an feature rich environment for learning and enjoying history and geography of places across the globe

Multitenancy Application Metadata driven (using WCF 4.0, WWF 4.0)

12 Sep 2013

roopa.ananda

Multitenancy Application Metadata driven (using WCF 4.0, WWF 4.0)

Facade to disparate databases

19 Sep 2013

G3Coder

Details using an ORM model to provide a common facade to multiple disparate databases.

Windows Communication Foundation

11 Oct 2013

ASP.NET Community

Windows Communication FoundationWindows Communication Foundation (WCF) is an SDK for developing and deploying services on Windows. WCF provides a

Creating Test Objects With FakeModel

17 Dec 2013

Member 9913858

An introduction to using FakeModel to create test aata for you.

Techniques to "Fault Find Issues" - Within Your Remote WCF Services

12 Dec 2013

Bert O Neill

Know how to find issues within your deployed WCF services

Improvements and Enhancements of a Data Access Web Service Using WCF and Entity Framework

27 Mar 2014

Shenwei Liu

An article with sample application showing how and what we can do to improve and enhance a WCF and EF data access web service.

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WorkflowChannel for Windows Azure BizTalk Service (WABS)

30 Jan 2014

Roman Kiss

This article describes how a Windows Azure BizTalk Service Bridge pipeline can be extended for message mediation by Workflow (VETER + WORKFLOW Pattern).

How to Implement Custom Role Based Authorization for My WCF Service Operations

13 Feb 2014

Adarsh Chaurasia - Passionate Trainer

How to implement custom role based authorization for my WCF service operations

Invoking Bing Maps REST API through an Orchestration in BizTalk Server 2013

20 Feb 2014

Naveen Karamchetti

This article attempts to explain how to invoke the Bing Maps REST API through an Orchestration in BizTalk Server 2013.

Remote Operation Layer

14 Apr 2014

Kemeny Attila

Service layer which hides the concrete technology details and doesn’t need to change when a new feature is implemented.

Consuming WCF Service in Java Client

23 May 2014

Debabrata_Das

This article will talk about how a WCF service can be consumed by a Java client application.

Model-driven development and prototyping by sample - cloud (part 3)

23 Jan 2015

Lothar Behrens

How code generation can make the distributed architecture an easy task

A Customisable ORM for Multi-tier Applications

19 Jun 2014

Simon Gulliver

How to write your own customised ORM, targeted at multi-tier applications

An easy to use WPF Autocomplete Textbox

10 Jul 2014

Eric Pap

An easy to use custom control basedon textbox that allows Autocomplete, compatible with WCF

App Inventor communicating with WCF Service using TinyWebDb interface

2 Sep 2014

Pavel Sinkevich

Implement TinyWebDb interface on WCF Service to communicate with Android application developed with App Inventor

Azure: SQL Azure

9 Nov 2014

Sacha Barber

SQL Azure

Silverlight Application with Management Entity Framework and WCF Service

20 Dec 2014

john_1726

A guide to constructing an application using Expression Blend and Silverlight for the front-end which obtains data from a WCF service and SQL Server back-end

Hosting a WCF Web Service inside a Windows Service using Spring.Net

21 Dec 2014

BobbyPhillips

Step-by-step guide to building a WCF Web Service hosted in a Windows Service

Understanding Instance Management in WCF

9 Jan 2015

Praveen Kumar Katiyar

Understanding instance management in WCF

RestaurantWatcher-An IoT project using Azure

25 Feb 2015

DigCamara

Connecting a Intel RealSense device to remote users via Azure

BasicHttpBinding with Custom Authorization

24 Feb 2015

Joe Murphy

Monitor Network Traffic for BasicHttpBinding WCF call using Wireshark

Azure WCF RESTULL Service with HTTP GET and POST methods sample tested by Postman

20 Apr 2015

Sergey Kizyan

This is a sample article that describes ho to implement RESTfull service for Azure for both GET and POST methods

Simple Demo WCF RESTful Web Service

20 Apr 2015

Rahul Pawar LogicMonk

A quick look at a Simple WCF RESTful Web Service!

So you enjoy writing boilerplate?

30 Jun 2016

Simon Gulliver

Really? Then why is so much effort wasted writing boilerplate which can be more accurately and efficiently automated?

Implement A Duplex Service Using WCF --- Beginner's Tutorial For WCF

3 Nov 2015

Damon Du

The blog documented problems encountered in the process of learning WCF and Computer Network.

Active Directory Webservices for DevOps

27 Oct 2015

saddam abu ghaida

Active Directory Web services Which handles Authentication, SSO for other apps, aside from Native Routines

ActiveDirectory

Yummy! Cleaner, Sweeter WCF Proxy Usage with DynamicTidyProxy!

21 Nov 2015

Martin Jarvis

Cleaner WCF Proxy usage with DynamicTidyProxy

Centralizing WCF Client Configuration in a Class Libary

3 Dec 2015

Nejimon CR

This article describes how to put your WCF client configuration in a class library's config file instead of client application's config file

Putting WCF to Work

14 Jan 2016

Asher Barak, Itiel Beeri

Infrastructure for large scale WCF services layer development

Exposing a REST/JSON GET endpoint using BizTalk Server 2013

24 Jan 2016

AboorvaRaja Ramar

To Expose BizTalk Schema as a Rest/Json Service with GET method.

Angular Single-Page Applications - Cool Privilege Control System

29 Mar 2016

wells cheung

Angular Single-Page Application, MEF, Privilege Control, WCF Restful Service, ui-router,

entity-framework

An example WCF data surrogate implementation

29 Nov 2016

Kemeny Attila

A complete example of using the WCF data contract surrogate

Cool Privilege Control System Part 2 -- asp.net MVC with WCF

29 Feb 2016

wells cheung

Privilege Control System based on MVC and WCF.

Autogenerate DataContracts for WCF from POCO Classes

7 Dec 2016

Kuv Patel

Convert a class library of POCO classes to datacontracts for use with WCF without having to write DataContract and DataMember attributes directly to the POCO classes.

entity-framework

How to use a WCF Service without adding Service Reference in MVC

18 Jul 2016

Khunt Suchit

How to use a WCF Service without adding a Proxy or Service Reference in ASP.net MVC Application

Defend ASP.NET and WCF from Various Attacks using Nginx

28 Jul 2016

Omar Al Zabir

Protect ASP.NET and WCF from various brute force and Denial of Service attacks and speed up response time using nginx.

WCF for the Real World, Not Hello World, Part II

18 Aug 2017

Zijian

WCF development for real RAD in enterprise through teamwork

A Robust and Elegant Single Instance WPF Application Approach Using WCF

18 May 2017

Jon Campbell

How to utilize WCF to allow a single instance of any WPF application without needing mutexes, extra assemblies, or special "hacks".

Branching Authentication in ASP.NET Core 2.1

13 Nov 2018

Vlad Neculai Vizitiu

Branching authentication in ASP.NET Core 2.1

Reading and Writing XML in C#/VB.Net

22 Dec 2017

Dirk Bahle

Tips & Tricks on De/Serializing object graphs with XML

Consume Data from a OData WCF Data Service in a .NET Client

14 May 2018

NobsterTheLobster

Consume data from a WCF Data service in a .NET client. MSAL OAuth 2.0

WCF with shared assemblies for use by interfaces only

2 Apr 2007

christoph brändle

Using WCF for business solutions (no config files, only exposed interfaces)

Automatic Culture Flowing with WCF by using Custom Behaviour

30 Nov 2007

Patrick Kalkman

An article to demonstrate culture flow from Windows client to Windows server using WCF.

How to Pass Arbitrary Data in a Message Object using WCF

31 Mar 2009

Leonid Sorokin

How to pass arbitrary data in a message object using WCF

RESTful WCF - Part 2 of n

9 Apr 2009

Sacha Barber

RESTful WCF

RESTful WCF - Part 1 of n

9 Apr 2009

Sacha Barber

RESTful WCF

Using Paging in WCF Data Services

18 Jul 2010

Gil Fink

In the new release of WCF Data Services, we get server side paging and this will be addressed in this post.

Integrate Reporting Services with Silverlight and RIA Services

28 Jul 2010

Ernesto Herrera

Integrate Reporting Services with your Silverlight Line-of-Business applications.

entity-framework

Configuring WCF Data Services Using Lambda Expressions

25 Apr 2011

Gil Fink

A simple solution for using lambda extensions instead of strings while configuring a WCF Data Service

LoggingBehavior - How to Connect Log-prints with the WCF Operation's Details, using a Simple Behavior

27 Sep 2011

Shmuel Zang

In this article, I explain, step by step, how we can use a WCF behavior for logging operation's invoke and result, errors, warnings and information logs that include the operation's details.

Integrate Validation Block with WCF

23 Sep 2011

Ercan Anlama

Introduces how to integrate and use the validation block features in Microsoft Enterprise Library 5.0 with WCF.

Reusing WCF Service Across Several Applications using Different Bindings

21 Dec 2011

Kausik J. Nag

Reusing WCF service across several applications using different bindings

Building WPF Applications with Self-Tracking Entity Generator - IClientChangeTracking Interface

29 Dec 2011

Weidong Shen

This article describes the IClientChangeTracking interface generated by Self-Tracking Entity Generator for WPF/Silverlight.

Building WPF Applications with Self-Tracking Entity Generator - Data Validation

21 Jan 2012

Weidong Shen

This article describes how to do data validation with Self-Tracking Entity Generator for WPF/Silverlight.

WCF/ASMX Interoperability – Removing the Annoying xxxSpecified when Adding a Web Reference to a WCF Service

1 Feb 2012

Ido Flatow

WCF/ASMX Interoperability – Removing the Annoying xxxSpecified when adding a web reference to a WCF service

What’s New in WCF 4.5? Improved Streaming in IIS Hosting

3 Feb 2012

Ido Flatow

Improved streaming in IIS hosting

Creating Your Own (Customized) Standard Endpoints in WCF 4

2 Feb 2012

Ido Flatow

Creating customized standard endpoints in WCF 4

What’s New in WCF 4.5? Changed Default for ASP.NET Compatibility Mode

2 Feb 2012

Ido Flatow

This post is about the ASP.NET compatibility mode default change of WCF 4.5.

MSMQ Outgoing Queue Mover

28 Jan 2012

Gil.Schmidt

How to move a wcf msmq message from an outgoing queue to another outgoing queue.

What’s New in WCF 4.5? UDP Transport Support

18 Feb 2012

Ido Flatow

This is the tenth post in the WCF 4.5 series.

Zombie Explorer: An n-tier application from top to bottom

15 Apr 2013

Sacha Barber

A complete end to end example from DB to WPF client using MVVM/PRISM/NHibernate/Respository/IOC.

XNA Snooker Club

8 Mar 2010

Marcelo Ricardo de Oliveira

WCF-enabled multi-player XNA game for the Windows platform.

Skip logfiles - Try automated exception handling!

8 Sep 2016

jgauffin

codeRR is an open source error handling service. It includes the context information that you forgot to include when you logged/reported the exception.

Export BDC(Business Data Catalog) Data to Excel/PDF

23 Jul 2009

Johnson Manuel Devadoss ("Johnson Smith")

Way to export search results(BDC datalist/Enterprise Search) to Excel/PDF

Experimenting with enterprise level bus messaging

3 Sep 2010

Sacha Barber

A look into messaging solutions using NServiceBus.

CQRS Event Sourcing pattern with NServiceBus, ASP.NET MVC and SignalR

12 Jan 2014

Michael Trembovler

The current article might be useful for users attempting to use NServiceBus. It contains detailed instruction for creating pairs: publisher-subscriber through ServiceMatrix. Solution architects may find this technique useful in many CQRS scenarios as a good alternative to WCF.

Silver Draw - A Silverlight Based Collaboration White Board with Drawing and Chat

2 Nov 2009

Anoop Pillai

Silver Draw shows how to use Silverlight and WCF Polling Duplex services to create realtime collaboration apps.

WCF .NET 4.0 Console Hosted Json Rest Secure HTTP Web Service with Authentication and Roles

7 Dec 2011

jeremylei

A RESTful web service using the newest .NET platform features including automatic serialization/deserialization of complex types.

Streaming realtime data to Excel

2 Sep 2014

gjvdkamp

This is a minimalistic example of how WCF, Rx and Excel-DNA can be used to stream realtime data to an Excel client.

WF4 Custom activities for message mediation

20 Dec 2012

Roman Kiss

This article describes a design, implementation, and usage of custom message mediation activities for a XAML workflow.

How to create scalable services with WCF 4.0 Router and Discovery services

21 Mar 2011

mikeperetz

This article shows how to make a service scale beyond one machine, and use load-balancing and fault tolerance with WCF Router and WCF Discovery.

RESTful WCF / EF POCO / Unit of Work / Repository / MEF: 1 of 2

19 Apr 2012

Sacha Barber

A look at designing a service layer using good practices, and the MSFT technology stack.

SQL-Server-2005

Mole For Visual Studio - With Editing - Visualize All Project Types

29 Jan 2008

Andrew Smith, Josh Smith, Karl Shifflett

New Silverlight Movies For Mole. Mole v4.2 has GREAT new features! Visualizer with property editing. Mole is a high performance, full featured, multifunction visualizer that allows detailed inspection of WPF, WCF, WF, ASP.NET, XBAP's and WinForm applications. Editing of properties is now support

Home Automation with Netduino and Kinect

3 Jan 2015

Dan Thyer

Remote control a squirt gun, open the garage, and water the garden all through .net

Instrumenting WCF, Extending WCF using IServiceBehavior, IOperationBehavior, and IParameterInspector

9 Jan 2014

Assil

This article describes an advanced technique or feature in WCF

DBTool – Part 2: Harlinn.Oracle

1 Oct 2013

Espen Harlinn

A reflection based wrapper for the Oracle Data Provider for .NET – allows your application to dynamically load the Oracle.DataAccess.dll assembly installed on your client’s computer.

Building RESTful Message Based Web Services with WCF

12 May 2014

Sergey Morenko

How to create RESTful message based web service with WCF

Using WCF Callback Services Throttling

2 Sep 2008

Cameron Hanchey

When using callbacks with transient subscribers, you must leave the channel open. This is how to manage and use service throttling to open up your service to more than 10 subscribers.

WCF over Twitter

20 Sep 2009

Nicolas Dorier

How to code a TransportBindingElement.

Your Digital Fountain

28 Nov 2014

Omar Gameel Salem

Reliable transmission of bulk data over lossy connection without worrying about packets loss

SongBird - a Twitter Hybrid Smart Client

18 Jun 2009

Pete O'Hanlon

Using the WCF RESTful services to create a Twitter hybrid Smart Client.

Stateful Web Services using WCF leveraging ASP.NET infrastructure with BasicHttpBinding

20 Jul 2010

AmbarRay

This article explains how to manage state in Web Services using WCF by leveraging ASP.NET infrastructure with BasicHttpBinding.

Membership+ Management System, Part II: Account Settings

22 Mar 2014

Shuqian Ying

Implementing the user account setting part of Membership+ management system.

Unknown Class Dynamically Generated at runtime for Entity Framework, WCF OData and dynamic client consumption

7 Nov 2014

Adriaan Booysen

An example of a nearly complete unknown type being used accross EF, WCF and consumed client side

Kerosene ORM: a dynamic, configuration-less and self-adaptive ORM for POCO objects supporting a SQL-like syntax from C#

1 Mar 2015

mbarbac

The seventh version of the dynamic, configuration-less and self-adaptive Kerosene ORM library, that provides full real support for POCO objects, natural SQL-like syntax from C#, and advanced capabilities while being extremely easy to use.

Building SOAP Message Based Web Services with WCF

26 May 2014

Sergey Morenko

How to create SOAP message based web service with WCF

Extending WCF - Part II

21 Jan 2010

Mosfiqur Rahman

An article on using compression/decompression of WCF data

Membership+ Management System, Part III: Query Intelligence

27 May 2014

Shuqian Ying

Implementing a unified structured query system of service based relational data source with build-in intelligence.

Tutorial on Message Exchange Patterns and Asynchronous Operations in WCF

31 Mar 2013

Rahul Rajat Singh

This article discusses the various message exchange patterns that the WCF service supports and how to call WCF operations asynchronously

WCF: Duplex MSMQ

3 Sep 2009

Nicolas Dorier

How to use duplex communication over MSMQ bindings.

Managing Workflow Services with Windows Server AppFabric

3 Sep 2010

mohamad halabi

Introduces Windows Server AppFabric.

WCF TCP-based File Server

2 Mar 2009

StevenHobbs

Shows you how to implement a remote file repository using WCF.

WCF Routing Service - Part II: Context-based Routing & Protocol Bridging

6 Jun 2014

Samir NIGAM

This article describes context-based routing and protocol bridging using WCF RoutingService.

WCF by Example - Chapter III - Response

24 Oct 2012

Enrique Albert

WCF service response message patterns

SQL-Server-2005

Image in Azure: Upload, Deep Zoom Viewing, Mark Out and Annotation

6 Jul 2011

Igor Ladnik

Article presents Azure based software to image upload, viewing with Silverlight MultiScaleImage control, mark out and annotation. Browser performs the operations with no additional installation on user machine/device (the viewing browser should support Silverlight).

YouGrade - Silverlight Multimedia Exam Suite

5 Jun 2010

Marcelo Ricardo de Oliveira

A multimedia exam suite built on Silverlight and Youtube

7 Jun 2012

Jovan Popovic(MSFT)

In this article is shown what are OData services, how you can create them using the WCF Data Services, and how you can use them

Game Attack Combos : WPF Hybrid Smart Client for Combo Calculations

23 May 2009

Matt Sollars

A WPF hybrid smart client for calculating attack combos in the Prince of Persia game.

Robust Interapplication Communications using Double-Simplex WCF

9 Mar 2008

joomlathug

An unbreakable method for two applications on the same desktop to exchange data

Generic WCF Service Host and Client

13 May 2010

Tyler Jensen

A generic WCF Windows Service host and client with minimal configuration, with asynchronous support.

WCF by Example - Chapter VIII - WPF Client - Relay Command

11 Oct 2011

Enrique Albert

WPF ICommand implementation based on Josh Smith's pattern.

A first look at the Windows Web Services API

27 Jul 2009

Nish Nishant

The article shows how to interop between a WCF service and a WWS client, and also how to rewrite the WCF service in WWS retaining compatibility with existing WCF clients.

Rapid Development of Engineeging Web Site

1 Nov 2012

Petr Ivankov

From desktop to Web

Digest Authentication on a WCF REST Service

27 Feb 2011

Patrick Kalkman

An article that explains Digest Authentication and a library to use Digest Authentication with WCF Rest and validate against any back-end.

Topic-based publish/subscribe Design Pattern Implementation in C# - Part II (Using WCF)

23 Mar 2009

Razan Paul (Raju)

Implementation of Topic based publish subscribe design pattern using WCF callback

WCF by Example - Chapter V - Contexts

23 Oct 2012

Enrique Albert

Global and Request context pattern for server side resources

Three-tier .NET Application Utilizing Three ORM Technologies

30 Jan 2010

Bryan Thomas Weikel

LINQ to SQL, Entity Framework, and NHibernate used in a parallel fashion in a three-tier WinForms application.

SQL-Server-2005

WCF - A Quick Review

3 Sep 2013

Bhupendra Chauhan

This article is for those who want to revise WCF in a single go.

12 reasons to consume OData feeds using Simple.OData.Client

22 Nov 2013

Vagif Abilov

The article describes limitations of WCF Data Services client and shows how Simple.OData.Client can become a better alternative

WCF Service Performance Monitoring using “Perfmon”

31 Jul 2012

Milan Raval

This article explain how to use Windows "Perfmon" to monitor WCF service performance.

Synchronous Web Service Calls with Silverlight: Dispelling the async-only myth

16 Nov 2008

Daniel Vaughan

In this article, we look at the asynchronous web service model in Silverlight, and how it can be augmented to allow synchronous web service calls. We also explore efficient channel caching, and asynchronous Silverlight Unit Tests.

WS-Discovery for WCF

27 Nov 2008

Claudio Masieri

This article describes the design, implementation, and usage of WS-Discovery for Windows Communication Foundation (WCF).

GeoPlaces: Hybrid smart client involving RESTful WCF/WPF and more

8 Jun 2009

Sacha Barber

A nice explar of how to use RESTful WCF and WPF.

entity-framework

Peer to Peer File Sharing Through WCF

10 Jan 2018

Amir Jalilifard

In this article, you are going to learn about P2P Network and Windows Communication Foundation to share your files between peers through a P2P network.

Developing Widgets with ASP.NET, WCF, and jQuery

4 Aug 2009

Kirill Balandin

The article demonstrates how to use ASP.NET, jQuery, and WCF to develop widgets - portable chunks of code that can be embedded into other HTML pages.

Automatic Dump Collection and Analysis

15 Jul 2014

Dan Hu

Automatic Dump collection and Analysis

Implementing WCF Service Behaviors

22 Aug 2012

Vinod Viswanath

Here we will try to implement different service behaviors to increase service performance

Converting SOAP-based WCF Service to RESTful Design

9 May 2013

Balimusi

In this article, we will take an existing SOAP-based service and convert it over to a more RESTful design.

Responsive Web Design Using Twitter Bootstrap

13 Dec 2013

Sacha Barber

A look at how to create a responsive web site using ASP MVC / Twitter Bootstrap / WebAPI and Knockout.js.

Creating and consuming a simple WCF Service without using configuration files

14 Oct 2013

Praveen Kumar Katiyar

This article explains how to create a simple WCF Service, and host it according to supplied parameters, and a client to use this service.

Using Windows Azure Service Bus Messaging.

1 Nov 2011

Roman Kiss

This article describes consuming Windows Azure Service Bus by WCF and WF Technologies.

WCF by Example - Chapter X - Dependency Injection with Spring.Net

14 Oct 2011

Enrique Albert

How to use Spring.Net DI reducing coupling and enhancing automated testing.

SQL-Server-2005

Developing a Loosely Coupled Silverlight 3 Application

20 Jul 2009

Mark J. Caplin

Create a line of business application using Silverlight 3.

14 Sep 2018

Mahsa Hassankashi

This article describes MSMQ technology (publisher and subscriber) in order to communicate among distributed systems in the heterogeneous network and platforms.

Generate C# Client API for ASP.NET Web API

4 May 2020

Zijian

Generate strongly typed client API in C# for ASP.NET Web API and .NET Core Web API supporting desktop, Universal Windows, Android and iOS

WCF Routing Service - Part I: Basic Concept, Simple Routing Service & Content-based Routing

6 Jun 2014

Samir NIGAM

This article describes WCF Routing Service concept, Configuring RoutingService (its endpoint(s), target service(s), message filter(s) and filter table) and content based routing.

Kerosene Dynamic Data Services

11 Mar 2014

mbarbac

Implementing the Repository and Unit of Work Patterns dynamically using Kerosene ORM

WCF 4.0 Configuration Updates

3 Oct 2012

Md. Rashim uddin

This article describes the WCF 4.0 configuration model updates.

Catch and Handle WCF Service Exceptions in Silverlight

22 Jan 2009

Suriel Bendahan

A reusable set of code to enable service thrown exception handling in Silverlight.

Fixed Size Formatter

10 May 2010

Sion Cohen

A framework for declarative parsing and creating fixed sized raw data (Flat Files)

Implementing a Basic Hello World WCF Service (v4.5)

7 Apr 2015

Mike_Liu

Manually implement a basic WCF Service (.NET 4.5) from scratch, step by step, with clear instructions and precise screen snapshots.

Service-based Arduino Data Logger

25 May 2014

Vedat Ozan Oner

Arduino data logger implementation using WCF Windows services

entity-framework

CinchV2: Version2 of my Cinch MVVM framework: Part 2 of n

1 Jan 2011

Sacha Barber

If Jack Daniels made MVVM frameworks.

Dynamic LINQ to Entities Queries Using WCF/WPF Demo Code

30 Nov 2008

Sacha Barber

Demonstrates a method of dynamic query across WCF Service boundaries.

WCF / WPF Chat Application

22 Jul 2011

Sacha Barber

How to create a peer-to-peer chat application using Windows Communication Foundation

WCF Routing Service - Part III: Failover & Load Balancing

6 Jun 2014

Samir NIGAM

This article describes Failover & Load Balancing using WCF RoutingService.

WCF for the Real World, Not Hello World

15 Feb 2019

Zijian

WCF development for real RAD in enterprise

RESTful Made Simple - A Generic REST Service Client Library

20 Feb 2012

Dr. Song Li

This article presents a generic REST client library and an example on how to use it.

WS-Transfer Service for Workflow

23 Nov 2006

Roman Kiss

This article describes a design and implementation of the WF workflow connectivity to the Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) Service for WS-Transfer operation contract.

WCF by Example - Chapter VI - WPF Client - Baseline

23 Oct 2012

Enrique Albert

Baseline WCF Client application using the MVVM pattern

An Experiment on Fluid Services for Highly Responsive, Scalable and Reusable SOA Services

7 Sep 2010

I. Benian

An experiemental streaming implementation to reduce response time and increase throughput for highly composable/scalable web services.

6 Steps to Implement DUAL Security on WCF using User name + SSL

20 May 2010

Shivprasad koirala

6 steps to implement DUAL security on WCF using User name + SSL

SQL-Server-2005

SQL-server-2000

Calcium: A modular application toolset leveraging PRISM – Part 1

1 Jun 2009

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.

Service Based Membership Providers for ASP.NET

4 May 2014

Shuqian Ying

Service based, multi-application ASP.NET custom membership, role and profile providers with a hierarchical role system.

Making WCF RIA Services work in a DMZ/Multitier architecture using Application Request Routing

13 Sep 2010

Sandrino Di Mattia

A guide to creating secure Silverlight + WCF RIA Services applications for the enterprise! This is done using Application Request Routing (turning IIS in a reverse proxy).

Fire WorkflowEvents from AJAX

9 Aug 2007

Roman Kiss

This article describes a loosely coupled connectivity to fire the Workflow Event Activity from AJAX/JSON driven browser.

Membership Stores for ASP.NET

4 May 2014

Shuqian Ying

Service based, multi-application, post ASP.NET 4.0 asynchronous custom membership stores for ASP.NET Identity 2.0 with a hierarchical role system.

Windows-service

Adventures into Ink API using WPF

7 Jun 2007

Sacha Barber

Adventures into Ink API using WPF

Consuming WCF REST Services Using jQuery AJAX Calls

25 Nov 2010

Dr. Song Li

This article presents a method to consume cross-domain WCF REST Services using jQuery AJAX calls, with an example.

Tweaking WCF to build highly scalable async REST API

31 Jul 2011

Omar Al Zabir

You can build async REST API using WCF but due to some bug in WCF implementation it does not scale as you would want it to. Here's my journey with Microsoft's WCF team to explore the problem and find the right fix.