WCF Tutorial - For Beginners & Professionals

Difference between WCF and ASP.NET Web Service

.NET provides various options for creating services under .NET Framework. Before WCF, ASP.NET Web Services are used to ceate service in .NET Framework. Now WCF is the latest programming model for building and developing service-oriented application. WCF allows applications to communicate with each other in distributed environment.

 

A brief version history of WCF

WCF stands for Windows Communication Foundation. It is Microsoft's latest technology that enables applications in a distributed environment to communicate with each other. WCF is Microsoft's unified programming model for building service-oriented applications.

 

Difference between WCF Proxy and Channel Factory

There are two ways : Proxy and Channel Factory; to create a WCF Client or calling a WCF Service. In this article, I am going to expose the difference between Proxy and Channel Factory.

 

Understanding Session Management in WCF

WCF manage session by creating the instance of the service class. These created instance(s) handle the incoming service request. In WCF, session is the way of managing the services instance(s) so that server can used these instances in an optimized way. At server side InstanceContext class is used to manage service class instance.

 

Understanding Message Exchange Patterns (MEP) in WCF

Message Exchange Patterns describes the way of communication between Client and Server means how client and server would be exchange messages to each other. There are three types of message exchange patterns

 

Understanding different types of WCF Contracts

WCF contract specify the service and its operations. WCF has five types of contracts: service contract, operation contract, data contract, message contract and fault contract.

 

Understanding various types of WCF bindings

WCF has a couple of built in bindings which are designed to fulfill some specific need. You can also de-fine your own custom binding in WCF to fulfill your need. All built in bindings are defined in the System.ServiceModel Namespace. Here is the list of 10 built in bindings in WCF which we commonly used:

 

Error code 12031 in Ajax enabled wcf

From last couple of days I was trying to call a ajax enabled wcf service method with the help of jquery. But each and every time I am getting the error code 12031 returned by the service. I did googling for this error but I was unable to find the solution. After spending much time on R&D, I found the reason why I wa geeting this error.

 

Calling Cross Domain WCF Service using Jquery

From last couple of days, I am trying to call a wcf service using jquery that is hosted in different domain. But every time I was failed to call wcf service from different domain. After spending much time on R&D, I found the solution and the reason why I was unable to call cross domain wcf service.

 

Introduction to WCF

WCF stands for Windows Communication Foundation. It is Microsoft's latest technology that enables applications in a distributed environment to communicate with each other.WCF is Microsoft's unified programming model for building service-oriented applications. It enables developers to build secure, reliable, transacted solutions that integrate across platforms and interoperate with existing.