Until REST APIs came along, SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) was the de facto standard protocol on which web services were based. When working in ASP.Net Core, you might well encounter the need to ...

Windows Communication Foundation has steadily evolved to better support SOA and Web services. Here's how to get the most out of your WCF-based services architecture. If you want to exploit ...

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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 ...

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 ...

It's easy to test a service if you create it in a Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) Service Library -- just press F5 to bring up Visual Studio's Test Client. Testing isn't as easy if you create ...

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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