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Calcium: A Modular Application Toolset Leveraging PRISM – Part 2

by Daniel Vaughan

Calcium provides much of what one needs to rapidly build a multifaceted and sophisticated modular application. Includes a host of modules and services, and an infrastructure that is ready to use in your next application.

Routing Manager for WCF4

by Roman Kiss

This article describes a design, implementation and usage of the Custom Routing Manager for managing messages via Routing Service built-in .Net 4 Technology.

Manageable Services

by Roman Kiss

This article describes a design, implementation and tooling of model driven WorkflowServices logically centralized in the Repository and physically decentralized for their runtime projecting.

Notification of Silverlight Applications about Database State Changes

by Max Paulousky

This article presents the techniques and caveats of building Silverlight applications that can be notified about database state changes via polling duplex. WSHttp binding and CLR triggers are used to implement the solution as well.

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WCF Client For Web Services that Require Authorization by HTTP Header

by NikStar

Using OutgoingMessageProperties and OperationContextScope to implement authorization by http header for WCF client that communicates with non WCF-based web services.

WCF for the Real World, Not Hello World -- Revisited in the .NET Core Landscape

by Zijian

Live with WCF in the .NET Core Landscape

Fixing PlatformNotSupportedException when Running Window Communication Foundation Applications

by ToughDev

How to fix PlatformNotSupportedException when running WCF apps

Signing Documents in SharePoint with a Smart Card

by lvmcastro

A tutorial showing how to use a smartcard API, a SharePoint extension and web services, to add a qualified electronic signature (QES) to a PDF file located in a SharePoint online library.

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WCF Services - Choosing the Appropriate WCF Binding

30 Jul 2012 by Imran Abdul Ghani

Existing bindings available in WCF

A Quick Rundown of Web Services in ASP.NET: Web API and WCF

29 Oct 2015 by Rion Williams

A quick rundown of web services in ASP.NET: Web API and WCF

Understanding WCF in Depth: Part – 1

21 Jan 2015 by adityaswami89

Understanding WCF in Depth: Part – 1

SQL Unit Testing

15 Feb 2015 by Ronnie Mukherjee

SQL Unit testing

SSRS SQL Server Reporting Services- Subscriptions for Reports

4 Jun 2015 by Anton Angelov

Tutorial on how to set up an email subscription for reports generated in SSRS (SQL Server Reporting Services). Step by step explanations with a lot of images.

WCF Service Throttling

3 Jul 2010 by Amir Zuker

The following summarizes the throttling behavior elements and their default value setting.

How to create a WCF service without Visual Studio

15 Sep 2010 by Abhishek Sur

Creating a WCF service without Visual Studio

WCF Web Service Call to Another WCF Web Service returns no data

8 Jan 2012 by ozkary

WCF Web Service Call to Another WCF Web Service returns no data

10 Apr 2012 by deveck

The different securing mechanisms and how they are set up

Azure SQL vs AWS RDS: Performance and Cost

11 Aug 2017 by Jeremy Hutchinson

Azure SQL vs AWS RDS - performance and cost

Understanding Instance Management in WCF

30 Sep 2013 by Praveen Kumar Katiyar

A service that demonstrates instance management in real life.

ADO.NET – What is Meant by SQL Injection Attack?

10 Feb 2014 by Arun Ramachandran India

ADO.NET - What is meant by SQL injection attack?

Simple Properties Mapper by Reflection: Stop Copying Manually Each Property of Your Objects !

9 Apr 2010 by jmix90

Simple properties Mapper by reflection: Stop copying manually each property of your objects !

Calling a WCF Data Service From jQuery

18 Jul 2010 by Gil Fink

I want to show is how easy and simple it is to consume a WCF Data Service (OData feed) with the jQuery library.

Creating WCF Service Extensibility through MEF (Managed Extensibility Framework)

8 Sep 2010 by patelsan

How to create WCF service extensibility through MEF

Using EF DbContext with WCF Data Services

11 Dec 2010 by Gil Fink

Using EF DbContext with WCF Data Services

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Multi Language / Multicultural Exception Handling In WCF Using FaultReason

10 Jan 2011 by jebarson

Multi Language / Multicultural Exception Handling In WCF Using FaultReason

Making a JSONP Call to a WCF Data Service using datajs

25 Apr 2011 by Gil Fink

How to use the datajs library in order to make a JSONP call to a JSONP enabled WCF Data Service.

Tweaking WCF to Build Highly Scalable Async REST API

1 Aug 2011 by Omar Al Zabir

How WCF works for async services and how to fix this bug to make your async services truly async and scale under heavy load

Read Last Executed SQL Statement from a Memory Dump

17 Jun 2012 by Sebastian Solnica

One way of diagnosing SQL exceptions by using memory dumps

WCF Streaming – Slides and Code

21 Aug 2012 by Andrei Ion Rînea

The PowerPoint slides and code for my presentation on WCF streaming

WCF Duplex Service Exceeded Timeout of 00:00:00

18 Feb 2013 by Vasil Trifonov

We can use the clientBaseAddress to set the IP Address as the base address for the callback channel. We can also set another port there if we want.

Solution to: "The operation failed: The relationship could not be changed because one or more of the foreign-key properties is non-nullable"

12 Apr 2013 by pollirrata

This is a solution to "The operation failed: The relationship could not be changed because one or more of the foreign-key properties is non-nullable."

9 Jul 2013 by Sebastian Krysmanski

How to use WCF for communicating between .NET processes and how to use it for HTTP requests.

WCF Throughput and Scalability => Which and When

13 Aug 2013 by Nitin Singh India

WCF throughput and scalability - which and when

Table Features in SQL, Spreadsheets, and ANKHOR

5 Nov 2013 by Alexander Golde

Tables are the major data element of ANKHOR FlowSheet.

How to Make an SQL from Clojure or My Macros Kata

9 May 2014 by Alex Turok

Despite the fact that I started learning Clojure about 2 years ago, until recently I didn’t explore, maybe, the most fascinating part of the language – macros.

Understanding WCF in Depth - Part 3

28 Jan 2015 by adityaswami89

Understanding WCF in depth - Part 3

Using Dynamic SQL to create a Pivot Table

19 Mar 2015 by JammoD87

Using Dynamic SQL to create a Pivot Table

Authentication Token Service for WCF Services (Part 1)

9 Mar 2016 by rhyous

Authentication Token Service for WCF Services (Part 1)

WCF(Windows Communication Foundation)-Transaction Support

11 Dec 2016 by santosh.yadav198613

Transaction support in WCF

SQL Puzzle: How to Rank Student Scores

25 Mar 2017 by essentialSQL

How to identify the top and bottom 25 percent to rank student scores

Troubleshooting SQL Code Using Comments

3 Feb 2018 by Alvin Bunk

How to troubleshoot SQL code using comments

How to host a service in Azure and expose using WCF and Visual Studio 2010: Issues Faced and Quick Fixes

23 Jul 2010 by atverma

How to host a service in Azure and expose using WCF and Visual Studio 2010

My SDP Lecture Interview

27 Feb 2011 by Gil Fink

My SDP Lecture Interview

entity-framework

Combining WCF Data Services, JSONP, and jQuery

25 Apr 2011 by Gil Fink

A simple example of making a JSONP call to a WCF Data Service using jQuery.

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WCF REST and SOAP Service with WSSF (Service Factory 2010)

17 Oct 2011 by Brij M

WCF Rest and SOAP service with WSSF (Service Factory 2010)

Executing a Stored Procedure from a WCF Service Method

26 Nov 2011 by gmtzgtz

Executing a Stored Procedure from a WCF Service Method

Simple Steps to Enable Transactions in WCF

26 May 2014 by Imran Abdul Ghani

Here are some simple steps to enable transactions in WCF

Random Performance Findings

20 Aug 2012 by Andrei Ion Rînea

Some performance tips

Back Up All Databases Using T-SQL

9 May 2013 by PRANAV SINGH

Backing up all databases using T-SQL

Ninject and WCF

27 May 2013 by n.podbielski

Ninject and WCF

3 Techniques for Instance Management in WCF

26 May 2014 by Imran Abdul Ghani

This post discusses 3 techniques for instance management in WCF.

WCF Service FAQs - Part 4

10 Oct 2013 by Imran Abdul Ghani

This WCF service tutorial is part-4 in series of WCF Service FAQs.

Practical Guide to WCF RESTful Service

6 Jul 2014 by Imran Abdul Ghani

Here is a practical guide to WCF RESTful service

Using WCF Data Contract Known Types by Example

4 Mar 2014 by Imran Abdul Ghani

Using WCF Data Contract known types by example

WCF 3.5 Vs WCF 4.0 Vs WCF 4.5

17 Mar 2014 by Imran Abdul Ghani

In this WCF tutorial, we will see the new and important features introduced in different versions of Windows Communication Foundation starting from WCF 3.5, 4.0 to WCF 4.5.

How to Make an SQL From Clojure or My Macros Kata: Part 2

8 Jun 2014 by Alex Turok

In a recent post I showed some strange things that one can do with macros to be able to write SQL-like queries right in Clojure. Several weeks ago we enabled selecting fields from records as well as filtering them with where clause.

WCF Hosting in Windows Service Simplified

16 Jun 2014 by Imran Abdul Ghani

WCF Hosting in Windows Service simplified

How do the SQL DISTINCT and TOP SELECT Clauses Work Together to Generate Results?

17 Jun 2015 by essentialSQL

How do the SQL DISTINCT and TOP SELECT Clauses Work Together to Generate Results?

Don't Use 'using()' with a WCF Proxy

21 Jan 2016 by DaveBlack

Don't use 'using()' with a WCF proxy

WCF (Windows Communication Foundation) - Session in WCF

9 Oct 2016 by santosh.yadav198613

Session in WCF

Using WCF Service Without Config

13 Oct 2016 by Thomas Cooper

How to use WCF service without config

Continuous Delivery with TFS / VSTS – Commissioning TFS or VSTS

1 Nov 2016 by Graham D Smith

Commissioning TFS or VSTS

SQL Puzzle: How to Calculate Moving Averages

25 Mar 2017 by essentialSQL

How to calculate moving averages

Genereting proxies during runtime using Reflection.Emit

25 Dec 2018 by n.podbielski

Reflection.Emit is very powerful tool. It creates IL code and since C# is converted into IL too, we have the same functionality as in C# and even more. It is very powerful and at the same time very complicated. Because of that it is worth to discuss how and for what it should be used.

Wrox–Professional WCF 4–Windows Communication Foundation with .NET 4

29 Sep 2010 by outcoldman

Wrox–Professional WCF 4–Windows Communication Foundation with .NET 4

RESTful WCF Service – How to Get Browser Version at Server Code

29 Sep 2010 by outcoldman

RESTful WCF Service – How to get browser version at server code

Cumbersomeness Web.Config

13 Dec 2010 by M Sheik Uduman Ali

Cumbersomeness Web.Config

WCF Secure Channel cannot be opened - Load Balancing with wsHttp Binding

12 Feb 2011 by ozkary

WCF Secure Channel cannot be opened - Load Balancing with wsHttp Binding

Scalable State Synchronization using P2P - Part 3 - How to Use the Infrastructure (Tutorial)

3 Mar 2011 by Ron zigelman

How to use the infrastructure in your own project

Scalable State Synchronization using P2P - Part 2 - Running the Test Application

3 Mar 2011 by Ron zigelman

Scalable state synchronization using P2P - Part 2 - Running the test application

Step By Step Guide to WCF RIA Enabled SL4 Application with Entity Framework

12 Apr 2011 by Manas_Patnaik

We will create a Silverlight 4 based application with WCF RIA services and Entity Framework

WCF Service operations can’t be loaded due to mixing of message contract types and primitive types

20 May 2011 by ozkary

A useful tip when designing your WCF Service operations.

Being Cautious With SQL Based Processes

24 Jun 2011 by Andrew Zwicker

Why being careful is such an important mindset when working with SQL and databases.At the Boston Public Schools, certain processes need to be run at particular times of the school year. There’s a couple of specific windows of time where we print choice forms for students.

WCF Service IIS Specified Authentication Schemes Error

21 Jul 2011 by ozkary

How to resolve the WCF Service IIS specified authentication schemes error

WCF - Could Not Find A Base Address that Matches Scheme

27 Jul 2011 by ozkary

This error indicates that there is no base address handling the request on that particular scheme (HTTP/HTTPs) and base address (URL).

ServiceContractGenerator vs. ServiceDescriptionImporter

15 Dec 2011 by Sandeepkumar Ramani

Differences between ServiceDescriptionImporter and ServiceContractGenerator

How to Use Pex and Moles to Generate Unit Tests for a Project Having External Dependency (WCF Proxy) using Visual Studio 2010 SP1

24 Jan 2012 by atverma

Writing unit tests using Pex and Moles

WCF client-proxies Cannot Consume Values of Type IEnumerable!

11 Mar 2012 by Nizar Noorani

A solution to this problem

[C#] WCF: Pass Meta Data from Host to Implementation

30 Apr 2012 by James Poulose

Pass meta data from host to implementation

WCF Client Performance Using ObjectDataSource

7 Jun 2012 by matt-dot-net

Improving WCF client performance using ObjectDataSource.

A Sneak Preview of WebSocket-enabled WCF Services

5 Jun 2012 by Nikos Baxevanis

A WebSocket-enabled service in .NET will be written like any other WCF service with two differences.

Adding Timeout and Congestion Prevention in a WCF/.NET Remoting Multi-tier Server

25 Jun 2012 by frank cao

How to add timeout and congestion prevention in a WCF/.NET remoting multi-tier server

MData – The Idea

4 Jul 2012 by Pieter Van Parys

MData – The Idea

WCF FAQs - Part 1

27 May 2014 by Imran Abdul Ghani

A collection of most frequently asked questions about Windows Communication Foundation covering the beginner level

WCF - Automatically Create ServiceHost for Multiple Services

18 Jan 2013 by Rajesh Pillai

How to automatically create ServiceHost for multiple services

Introducing Business Intelligence Reporting to a Software System, a Jasper Reports How-to

7 Feb 2013 by Keyhole Software

Introducing business intelligence reporting to a software system

Load Integration Services Assembly File Into Visual Studio 2010 Project

19 Feb 2013 by Sifiso W Ndlovu

How to load Integration Services Assembly file into Visual Studio 2010 project

SQL Exists Syntax

8 May 2013 by snorkie

This post is designed to help you understand how to use the EXISTS keyword in your SQL query environment.

Unit test WCF with serialization

19 Jul 2013 by m_kramar

Unit test WCF with serialization.

WCF Service FAQs - Part 3

8 Oct 2013 by Imran Abdul Ghani

Part 3 of WCF Service FAQs

First Date with WCF Named Pipe Transport (Duplex)

16 Dec 2013 by comiscience

WCF named pipe transport

OneTrueError and the WCF Integration

4 Aug 2014 by jgauffin

OneTrueError and the WCF Integration

A SQL Cmdlet a Day 3 Variables

7 Apr 2014 by derekman9707

As with any scripting language PowerShell supports variables, but unlike many languages declaration and assignment is streamlined. One of the coolest things about PowerShell variables is that data type assignment is automatic based upon the data type value.

A SQL Cmdlet a Day 4 SQLPS

8 Apr 2014 by derekman9707

A SQL Cmdlet a Day 4 SQLPS

New Features in WCF 4.5 - Part 5

29 Apr 2014 by Imran Abdul Ghani

New features in WCF 4.5

Building a Simple Reporting System with Unity

30 May 2014 by comiscience

Original article in my CodeProject page : Download ReportingWithUnity-noexe.zip – 25 KB Download ReportingWithUnity.zip – 249.1 KB Introduction I’m in one week of sick leave. I’d the time to learn more about Unity.

Easy and Perfomant Client/Server Communication with Protobuf-net & Griffin.Framework

3 Jun 2014 by jgauffin

Easy and perfomant client/server communication with protobuf-net & Griffin.Framework

Calling a WCF Self Hosted Console Application

9 Jun 2014 by Imran Abdul Ghani

Calling a WCF Self Hosted Console Application

2 Simple Ways to Configure WCF Binding

4 Jul 2014 by Imran Abdul Ghani

Here are 2 simple ways to configure WCF binding

WCF Contracts Simplified

17 Jul 2014 by Imran Abdul Ghani

WCF contracts simplified

Run SQL Script (.sql) Containing DDL, DML, SELECT Statements & PL/SQL Block through Reader in Java

30 Jul 2014 by Debopam Pal

How to run SQL script containing DDL, DML, Select statements and PL/SQL block through reader in Java

Creating a Self Hosted WCF Service

9 Jan 2015 by Praveen Kumar Katiyar

In this post I am going to explain how to create a simple WCF Service, with Self Hosting and consume it, there will be 4 parts of the project. A Class Library (MyMathServiceLib.dll): which will implement our business logic.

Functional, Fluent JDBC - FluentJdbc

19 Jan 2015 by mrcellux

FluentJdbc is a functional, fluent API to execute most common SQL operations an application needs as a single statement.

WCF Services with Claims-based Authentication and Authorization

26 Jun 2015 by Member 11794279

Sample service based on WCF (Windows Communication Foundation)

Hosting WCF Service in WAS Simplified

30 Jul 2015 by Imran Abdul Ghani

Hosting WCF service in WAS simplified

Step by Step Approach to Create a WCF Data Service

31 Jul 2015 by Imran Abdul Ghani

Step by step approach to create a WCF Data Service

Powershell Scripts to Replace Key Value Pair in SQL Script File Before Running the SQL Scripts

18 Aug 2015 by nirman b doshi

Powershell Scripts to replace Key Value pair in SQL Script file before running the SQL Scripts

Match Against A Collection In Single Query (Extending SQL 'IN' Statement)

1 Sep 2015 by m_kramar

What if you have a collection of objects and want to find matches in database and you want to do it using just one query? The following example demonstrates how it can be done using LINQ.