Like Access, WCF makes it awfully easy for developers to slap a Web service front-end on anything. The problem is that you end up with a "virtual junk drawer of services," to quote Nayaki Nayyar, ...

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 ...

I've got a WCF web service used by our business partners that regulations say that we need to log every call and every argument passed into the calls. In the old IIS/ASMX days there were convenient ...

Sending credentials automatically to Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) Web Service can make your client application more dynamic. Transport security (HTTPS) is used in WCF projects for ...

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WCF (Windows Communication Foundation) is a secure, reliable, and scalable messaging platform for developing services in .Net. In WCF, you have a unified programming model that you can leverage for ...

I'm having a little-bit of confusion properly understanding how WCF services generate there XML (or JSON) payload for POST RESTful services. I have such a service that I wrote, and depending on the ...

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Leann Chen explains how knowledge graphs ...