WCF never ceases to amaze me. Around every corner is another fascinating use for WCF, and much forethought on Microsoft’s part to make it look and behave great. I wanted to expose my services to my AJAX functions on my web site. I did not want to change my class …
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Hosting an MSMQ service is a little bit different than the other bindings. Since WCF is using MSMQ as a transport mechanism, you must setup the queues, permissions, and bindingConfigurations to allow this to happen. Surprisingly, MSDN has a good sample article that goes into sufficient detail on how to …
It has taken me weeks to get WAS (Windows Activation Service) working. Finally, tonight, my long hours of research has paid off. After everything I tried, it turned out to be a general IIS7 issue caused by a stray http reservation that I probably entered months ago during some testing. …
Why clutter your inbox with error messages? Why make special code provisions for users to receive error messages via email? Why not log your error messages and have users subscribe to receive them in their favorite RSS aggregator? If you are logging your exceptions already, you may find it easier …
I decided to come out of my cave and look around 3.5 a bit. I haven’t read much about extension methods, but find them quite useful. They are nothing more than a syntactically superior static helper method. Let’s look at a quick example so I can get back to coming …
Our friends at Microsoft may have slipped one in on us. After installing the 3.5 Framework Service Pack 1, it appears that you no longer need the [DataContract] or [DataMember] attributes on your DataContracts and DataMembers. I’m not sure what the motivation was for this “enhancement”, but it caused some …
Enterprise applications store their data in a relational database. Our code reads the data stored in tables with many complex joins and business rule laden queries. We take the results of those queries and construct an equally complex business entity that is used by our application logic. Most developers, myself …
I was looking for guidance on this topic, and came up with nothing. I’m sure people are doing this, but can’t find any info. For anyone looking like I was, here’s how to do it. It’s much simpler than I imagined, thanks to WCF. You can programmatically create your endpoint, …
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Before you try running a Console Application or Windows Service application that hosts a WCF service with basicHttpBinding or wsHttpBinding, see this MSDN article about “Configuring HTTP and HTTPS”. If you are WAS-hosted or Web App-hosted, the urlacl entries are made on your behalf. You can view the current entries …