September 2007 - Posts
Last week, David Pallmann posted this: http://davidpallmann.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!E95EF9DC3FDB978E!260.entry . In it, he points out that the default values for Bindings are typically off and need to be altered. Tomas Restrepo chimed in with an 'I agree'
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I'm just posting this here so that I can refer to the post from the MSDN WCF Forum . SvcTraceViewer is documented in this article on MSDN . The article doesn't have my favorite config for tracing. I much prefer this: <system.diagnostics> <sources>
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[clarification: I assert below that Thomas' post reminds me of the fact that many people don't know that SvcUtil is a tool that heavily leverages WCF assemblies. The point of this post is to explain where SvcUtil stops and System.ServiceModel/System.Web.Services
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A little while ago, Jeff Prosise forwarded a question to me about implementing his single-threaded apartment (STA) workaround for ASMX (see MSDN’s Wicked Code, October 2006 ) in WCF. The reason one does this in the first place is to take an existing set
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Go here to RSVP: http://www.cnug.org/Default.aspx?tabid=40 . The summary is: WCF is all about messaging. Sometimes, the application you are building calls for something simpler than WS-*. JSON, RSS, and ATOM are just a few of the things you can build
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Here's a little thing I was reminded of while going through the MSDN WCF Forums today: If you have an IPv6 enabled machine and you ask it to listen on an address named 'localhost', what really happens is you listen on two addresses: IPv4: 127.0.0.1 IPv6:
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Courtesy of the ThinkTecture blogs, we have this post: http://blogs.thinktecture.com/buddhike/archive/2007/09/01/414926.aspx . Apparently, there is some confusion about how to get a single ChannelFactory instance to hit a single web service using many
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