OK. My first real work with WCF is on my current project, where I landed a few weeks ago. It follows the typical SOA architecture: a web client accesses WCF services that do all the real work. The web ...

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 ...

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Peter Vogel continues his exploration of WCF 4.5's support for WebSockets by writing the code to accept data from the client and then return data to the client whenever that data becomes available. In ...

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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 ...

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 ...