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 ...

Services play a major role in the modern software architecture and WCF (Windows Communication Foundation) provides a platform for building services by enabling interoperability with services and ...

WCF (Windows Communication Foundation) is a secure, reliable, and scalable messaging platform that can be used to build Web services in .Net. It provides a unified programming model for developing ...

Peter Vogel introduces WCF 4.5's support for WebSockets first by describing why you care and then by setting up to build a bi-directional service using Windows Server 8, and Visual Studio 11. Web ...

Asynchronous services are easier to implement with support of the await and async keywords in WCF 4.5. We look at that, as well as contract-first development. There are performance benefits to using ...