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Windows Communication Foundation is a part of the .NET Framework that provides a unified programming model for rapidly building service-oriented applications.

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I apologize in advance for a long-read question, but i'm hardly stuck here and don`t how to ask for help using fewer words. I need to implement a middleware service which should be placed between two ...
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I have a wcf service to create that will have to pilot a desktop process for the remote client. My limitations are : - the wcf service could not handle more 100 simultaneous desktop process ...
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I need to consume data from a WCF service, which pipes it through a stream. The data itself is contents of an archive file, so it needs additional logic, which I am splitting off into a separate class....
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I have a windows service and a remote IIS server that need to communicate without any user interaction. As I can’t guarantee the two machines will be on the same network; the service will connect to ...
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When you want to send your own types over WCF, you have to add lots of [ServiceKnownType(typeof(MyFirstConcreteType))] to the interface definition of your contract. You cannot use [ServiceKnownType(...
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I want to expose my business logic via WCF service in the intranet environment. I have N-tier architecture, pretty simple: Database -> .Data (DAL) -> .Business (Service Layer) -> WCF So, far I have ...
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I'm building a WCF service project. It has a few layers, like Data, Business or Hosts. I usually also added "Clients" folder and "Proxy" project inside. So that anyone (who wants to use my service) ...
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This week I want to start a greater app project that is expected to handle much data. The app will provide an interactive forum, a media library that allows streaming and a task module with push ...
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I have an ASP.NET web site on a shared server. The site is mainly used to house some WCF services that are used by a desktop application. We had a problem in that the server stopped responding, and ...
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In this question about using WCF and/or WebAPI, there is this quote: I was asking myself the same question until I found this WCF and ASP.NET Web API comparison page on MSDN (with my own emphasis ...
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I recently worked in a larger project where I touched the topic of distributed systems in the c# world the first time. I found that wcf is fantastic for remote procedure calls, but how do you add ...
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I want to develop a robust system written in C# (WPF and WCF) for importing .csv files (and/or some others e.g. Word files) as a input into my system and then to generate PDF/Word report. I would ...
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Can you made secure, multi-user, client-server application with multiple clients (1-5) directly connecting to database? Or you have to make custom server application and connect them via WCF or ...
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I have a class library-- call it Services.dll-- which is a wrapper for some third party functionality. The third party gave us a bunch of DLLs and those "inner" DLLs call a WCF service. Normally, ...
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I have a “whiteboard” question. Technically I’d like to ask you about one thing I’m not sure in my design, but if you have time for a quick review the rest of the design - that’d be great. Every tip ...
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I'm currently working on a requirement to implement logging in multiple projects and require to develop a enterprise level logging application that can be using in n number of projects. Present ...
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I've been thinking about how to design my WPF application, which receives data from a WCF duplex service, but I'm afraid of over engineering. I thought about abstracting away the WCF communication ...
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I want to split a C++/CLI application on two parts : 1. Communication Part, with I/O + logging on text file : 3 COM Ports, 2 sockets and 1 log file 2. UI Part, to handle the data received from COM ...
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I am working on a WCF Service that returns the Status for a Device. A Device has multiple Status for different Companies. I need to develop a WCF Service that allows a Company to retrieve the Status ...
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Have a plain WPF that started a proof of concept got demoed and bought and went down that path for a couple years. Time to start fresh and would like to know proper pattern. A WPF app that will ...
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Okay so I work on a server application that has multiple communication methods. Including but not limited to WCF, TCP and RESTFUL. These all share information with clients but recently we have been ...
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I am currently looking into re-architecture of some of my organization applications. Other questions aside, the one that I am currently trying to figure out the best approach for currently is the ...
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I am creating ASP.Net REST API application and stuck on the part where I should consume the REST service. I am not sure how to find the way let me accomplish the following: 1. I don't want it to be ...
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We are a few developers develoing an enterprise project includes several modules and approximately 200 UI resources for our company. Project will be written/programmed in Asp.NET MVC, WCF services for ...
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I have received an XSD from a 3rd party supplier generated from a Java based system; which is to be used to create a SOAP endpoint for us to receive data transfers. Their XSD does not make any use of ...
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I'm having a hard time planning how to implement the architecture. The problem: > A user can save a number of profiles: > Name > URL > Time Interval Name | URL |...
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What is the optimal architecture for such case: Web application(.Net Web Forms) connects to third party web service via wcf. Third party web service accepts only digitally signed soap requests Some ...
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I am rather new to WCF (or rest, or Json for that matter) and I'd like to have some expert opinions on which methods to define. Some short introduction to give an idea of what the webservice should ...
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I had written a WCF based "chat/notification" system but I am questioning my decision if WCF is a good fit. I have an external 3rd party lib that calls my process when events arrive: public class ...
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My general feeling is that this is a question which must have been answered but I am struggling to find resources for it. I know little about mobile app dev but my knowledge of web services is pretty ...
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We have a third party supplied application with a button that enables the opening of another application showing related data when pressed (these applications are made by completely different ...
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I was just brought onto a project with a service oriented architecture. There is a central WCF "profile service" that all projects call to get information on users etc. That central profile service ...
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I have gone through many articles to understand why we need WebApi's when we can create restful architecture using WCF rest services but could not find some solid reason. Can we use these ...
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I'm planning on building a WCF service that will fetch data entities from a Sql Server database. And I'm currently struggling with best practices issues. The thing is that there's a few different ...
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Problem: Now, I have some events that will take place when the client submits a request to the server. These events will arise on the server and they will be subscribed by the services themselves (...
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We have a variety of basic functions (date utilities, email sending, internal math calculations, etc) that are currently in an old VB.NET project. We're going to move towards C# and I'm wondering if ...
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First of all, the basics. N-tier application: presentation, business layer, database. It is an old .NET 2.0 (WSE + WinForms) application, a bit more tightly coupled than I'd like, and the requirement ...
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We are as a team working on a project which currently using WCF as in between client and server. All business rules are written on managers classes which are used by service so its means no ...
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I'm reviewing best practices articles for WCF versioning. A lot of the recommendations revolve around one decision: "Are you using strict versioning? If so, treat every contract as immutable. If not, ....
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We're havng a bit of a disagreement in our team, and I would like to hear other people's views. We have a mature solution that uses an Entity Framework model, which is accessed by a repository layer, ...
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I got directed to this site for more conceptual questions. Here is my issue: Im designing an application that uses CQRS to expose functionality to higher levels in the stack. This looks like below (...
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We are working on a medium scale WCF project configured to use per call instancing and wondering weather it's a good practice to create classes per service method to hold the business logic since each ...
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We are developing multiple web services in C# using WCF, but we´re new doing it. So, for what we have read and learnt, this is our approach: We have a class library that we called CommonLibrary that ...
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I have a .NET WCF web service currently running in production right now. I would say 95% of the time it works flawlessly and as intended. However; there are times when I am throwing an exception that ...
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I was wondering what is the prefered way of accessing data from a server in a client application. The data will be stored on the server in an SQL database and I have previously used the following 2 ...
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To give some background, i have a WCF SOAP service in .NET that needs to return pdf files. This service will be used by multiple application, many times in a day. The size of the files returned varies ...
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I've been looking at a couple of the MVC tutorials on the ASP.NET website and and have noticed numerous of them make use of Entity Framework (especially the Identity provider stuff). Maybe my ...
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I am currently trying to understand the best configuration for caching. I am using Azure In-Role caching (currently Colocated, but Dedicated at a later point) in a Web Api 2 application in .NET 4.5.1....
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I've a web service SOAP developed with WCF, there is a best practise to versioning it? when I change the contract I don't want to update all the client's referiments but I want simply publish a new ...
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I am working on a WCF application that supports 4 different applications. lets call those 4 application: App1, App2, App3, and App4. this WCF Application has 4 services. one for each application. 4 ...
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