Hi all.<BR><BR>I thought consuming a WCF service (named pipe) hosted in a Windows service on the Web server (2k3) would be a good idea. It worked well enough when debugging in VS2008, but there my ...

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 ...

If you've consumed an ASP.NET ASMX Web service before, then you'll feel right at home consuming a WCF service. In a previous article, I discussed how a Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) service ...

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 ...

WCF (Windows Communication Foundation) is a secure, reliable, and scalable messaging platform for developing services in .Net. This is the second part in the series of articles on WCF best practices.

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BANGALORE, INDIA: Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is Microsoft's programming model for building service-oriented applications. WCF is a part of .NET framework 3.0 and it unifies the different ...

If you aren't aware, WCF will simply kill the communication channel when certain unexpected things happen. If you let an Exception bubble out of your service methods that aren't FaultExceptions and ...