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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.
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.
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.
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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Using OutgoingMessageProperties and OperationContextScope to implement authorization by http header for WCF client that communicates with non WCF-based web services.
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How to fix PlatformNotSupportedException when running WCF apps
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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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23 Nov 2009 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.
29 Apr 2010 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.
30 Apr 2009 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.
27 Nov 2009 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.
25 Feb 2016 by J.Starkl
A windows-service which can handle different operations in separate threads and which can be controlled by a small GUI program
16 Aug 2013 by Marco Merola
Creating PDF documents from XML
3 Sep 2008 by Ahmed Negm
This article introduces how to create and manage .NET enterprise applications using your favorite technology (Data Access Application Block, LINQ, NHibernate, ASMX, and WCF) with the Model Driven Development approach by Sculpture.
28 Jul 2014 by lusgon
Uploading a file using WCF REST API and JavaScript
30 Jul 2012 by Imran Abdul Ghani
Existing bindings available in WCF
4 Oct 2012 by Stuart Wheelwright
Using ServiceMon to obtain performance statistics for web services
14 Apr 2014 by Kemeny Attila
Service layer which hides the concrete technology details and doesn’t need to change when a new feature is implemented.
28 Jul 2016 by Omar Al Zabir
Protect ASP.NET and WCF from various brute force and Denial of Service attacks and speed up response time using nginx.
1 Sep 2009 by Roman Kiss
This article describes a design, implementation and usage of the custom service operation invoker for invoking a xaml workflow. It is based on the upcoming Microsoft .NET 4 Technology.
28 Mar 2010 by Vinit Yadav
A Yahoo! messenger clone application built with Silverlight and its Duplex Polling WCF service. Explains how to deal with the Yahoo! packet format named YMSG.
11 Oct 2011 by Enrique Albert
Baseline WCF Distribution Layer - Decoupling of WCF Services and ViewModels.
27 Mar 2014 by Shenwei Liu
An article with sample application showing how and what we can do to improve and enhance a WCF and EF data access web service
27 Sep 2011 by Shmuel Zang
In this article, I explain, step by step, how we can use a WCF behavior for logging operation's invoke and result, errors, warnings and information logs that include the operation's details.
23 May 2014 by Debabrata_Das
This article will talk about how a WCF service can be consumed by a Java client application.
20 Apr 2015 by Rahul Pawar LogicMonk
A quick look at a Simple WCF RESTful Web Service!
19 Feb 2010 by Ondra Spilka
How to host a WCF HTTPS service with a custom username validator, in IIS.
8 Mar 2010 by Lance Roberts
I needed to talk between one server process and multiple client processes, this was a simple test harness to prove it
18 Dec 2013 by Gokuldas
Real time SPC is a Web Application for iPad and Androind using HTML5 and jQuery AJAX.
10 Aug 2012 by Wonde Tadesse
The following procedures will help you to provide the service.1. Prepare a good documentation for the configurable parts of the wcf service. These configuration parts could be the endpoint, identity etc.2. Use SvcConfigEditor.exe[^] which is provided by Microsoft for such purpose.Note:I...
30 Sep 2014 by WaqaarRasool
Heartbeat Implementation in WCF Service in C#
22 Dec 2017 by Dirk Bahle
Tips & Tricks on De/Serializing object graphs with XML
30 Nov 2007 by Patrick Kalkman
An article to demonstrate culture flow from Windows client to Windows server using WCF.
17 Jul 2009 by eyedia
Sequential workflow as a WCF service. Create workflow custom activities, invoke child workflow from parent. Configure workflow runtime service using a config file. Basic idea of rules, creating a rule using the rule editor. Applying rules during runtime.
4 Nov 2009 by Larry Aultman
How to catch and handle ASMX based SOAP exceptions in a WCF client.
16 Mar 2010 by Valentin Billotte
How to make TRUE sync call in Silverlight
29 Mar 2016 by wells cheung
Angular Single-Page Application, MEF, Privilege Control, WCF Restful Service, ui-router,
16 May 2017 by Rene Bustos
WCF WebService IN VB.NET Response JSON
15 Aug 2009 by Ricardo Pineda Then
Shows how to serialize an object using binary serialization without using WCF.
25 Oct 2012 by Enrique Albert
WPF Validation using the IDataErrorInfo interface combined with Validation attributes
30 Nov 2015 by Nejimon CR
Implement WCF web service access from WPF with busy indicator and premature cancellation feature without using delegates, background worker, or separate event procedure
29 Jul 2013 by Zhuyun Dai
Using WebSocket with Microsoft.WebSockets.dll.
16 Jan 2014 by Tom Glick Philadelphia, US
POC to demonstrate passing of collections of complex objects to ASP.NET Web API Controllers.
15 Oct 2013 by Balimusi
WCF 4.5 Services Development using Entity Framework and MVC 4 front-end
28 Jul 2010 by Ernesto Herrera
Integrate Reporting Services with your Silverlight Line-of-Business applications.
18 May 2012 by hoonzis
This article describes how to use KnockoutJS, JQuery and Google Maps to create a responsive GUI of web applications. The usage of MVVM helps to keep JavaScript code organized and easy to evolve and maintain.
31 Mar 2013 by Melih Mucuk
Creating a WCF Service with JSON data for use on iOS
30 Nov 2015 by Mohammad Dayyan, VahidJafari
A library for creating .Net Serializable Expressions to send via WCF services
29 Oct 2015 by Rion Williams
A quick rundown of web services in ASP.NET: Web API and WCF
29 Feb 2016 by wells cheung
Privilege Control System based on MVC and WCF.
10 Nov 2014 by Dirk_Strauss
Securing Your .NET Applications – A Summary Review Of Visual Guard
30 Jan 2014 by Roman Kiss
This article describes how a Windows Azure BizTalk Service Bridge pipeline can be extended for message mediation by Workflow (VETER + WORKFLOW Pattern).
30 Jun 2016 by Simon Gulliver
Really? Then why is so much effort wasted writing boilerplate which can be more accurately and efficiently automated?
3 Dec 2015 by Nejimon CR
This article describes how to put your WCF client configuration in a class library's config file instead of client application's config file
23 Aug 2010 by Erion Pici
Generating docx reports in a client-server architecture, without using MS Office
26 Jan 2011 by #realJSOP
When you need to communicate with the app that contains your ServiceHost object, use custom events
20 Oct 2011 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov
It all makes no sense at all. You need to have knowledge in computer science and other related theoretical problems, understanding of development practices and some working experience (it's for an experienced programmer, huh?), not knowledge of any particular interview questions. This knowledge...
18 Feb 2012 by Ido Flatow
This is the tenth post in the WCF 4.5 series.
14 Jun 2012 by Espen Harlinn
Start by having a look at: A Developer's Guide to the WCF REST Starter Kit[^] You'll find additional useful information here:WCF Web HTTP Programming Model[^]One thing I immediately noticed is that in addition to OperationContact you need to decorate the methods with WebGet[^] or...
25 Mar 2013 by Rahul Rajat Singh
This article talks about managing sequence of operations in a WCF service.
17 Dec 2013 by Member 9913858
An introduction to using FakeModel to create test aata for you.
10 Jul 2014 by Eric Pap
An easy to use custom control basedon textbox that allows Autocomplete, compatible with WCF
19 Mar 2015 by Hrvoje Batrnek
Easy and seamless caching implementation of any virtual method in any class
27 May 2015 by syed shanu
MVC, AngularJS and WCF Rest Service for Master / Detail HTML Grid
28 Dec 2015 by Dhruti90
MVC functionalities with web service with simple integration
7 Dec 2016 by Kuv Patel
Convert a class library of POCO classes to datacontracts for use with WCF without having to write DataContract and DataMember attributes directly to the POCO classes.
4 Jun 2017 by Puresharper
How to generate basic swagger yaml description for WCF automatically on build time with Swagger4WCF .NET 4.0+
19 Aug 2014 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov
Part 1This is absolutely possible. This is quite apparent, but logical proof of the method needs effort.First, let's do our assumptions. I you cannot accept some of them — I have a plan "B". First, we need to consider three parties: Service S, Client C and "Middleman" M;...
21 Dec 2011 by Kausik J. Nag
Reusing WCF service across several applications using different bindings
22 Dec 2011 by thatraja
Too many questions in your question, anyway I found this article in CPIserver Cyber Cafe[^]And Codeproject has a section for Hardware and System[^] related articles.Use CP & Google for more.EDITControlling PC And Remote Access via lan in c#[^]Manipulate remote machine control...
3 Jan 2012 by Smithers-Jones
Yes, Google can. Try it, you will be surprised.By the way, you know that horoscopes are baloney?
29 Jan 2012 by Espen Harlinn
Have a look at http://umbraco.com/[^]I think that will do nicely - just watch the video :)Best regardsEspen Harlinn
22 Apr 2012 by ManojKumar19
How to make WCF service reference configurabe for Silverlight project(makes easy for deploying on severs like Dev, QA, UAT etc.)
6 May 2012 by OriginalGriff
The most likely reason for this is that you are not providing authentication when you send the email: http://knowledge.3essentials.com/web-hosting/article/263/ERROR-550-No-such-user-here-when-sending-mail.html[^]Have a look at this: it sends email from authenticated addresses: Sending an...
20 Jun 2012 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov
This is always awkward to answer questions like that. What would you mean by "we need"? Who are "we"? I always feel that if you are asking, you might not be the one who needs them… :-) See also my comment to the question.You should be able to get an idea from these...
11 Dec 2012 by Aron Weiler
Learn how to create a static and unchanging WCF interface that still supports most WCF capabilities.
20 Mar 2013 by wizardzz
I suggest trying their forums:http://www.telerik.com/community/forums.aspx[^]They have great support people who specialize in their software.
19 Sep 2013 by G3Coder
Details using an ORM model to provide a common facade to multiple disparate databases.
19 Jun 2014 by Simon Gulliver
How to write your own customised ORM, targeted at multi-tier applications
2 Sep 2014 by Pavel Sinkevich
Implement TinyWebDb interface on WCF Service to communicate with Android application developed with App Inventor
10 Oct 2014 by Gerardo Recinto
Virtualization of RAM & Disk for high-speed, low-footprint & scalable data caching
16 Mar 2017 by Arthur Minduca
How to handle faults in WCF without declaring them explicitly
21 Jan 2015 by adityaswami89
Understanding WCF in Depth: Part – 1
15 Feb 2015 by Ronnie Mukherjee
SQL Unit testing
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.
18 Jul 2016 by Khunt Suchit
How to use a WCF Service without adding a Proxy or Service Reference in ASP.net MVC Application
18 May 2017 by Jon Campbell
How to utilize WCF to allow a single instance of any WPF application without needing mutexes, extra assemblies, or special "hacks".
27 Oct 2015 by saddam abu ghaida
Active Directory Web services which handles Authentication, SSO for other apps, aside from Native Routines
9 Apr 2009 by Sacha Barber
RESTful WCF
18 Apr 2010 by Tamas Koszoru
Summarizing client side asynchronous invocations in WCF/WCF Silverlight. Introducing ServiceClient class.
23 Apr 2010 by Pete O'Hanlon
Bear in mind that you expose methods via a contract. If you do not want people to have access to 5 of those methods, just expose a contract that has the remaining 5 methods and use that instead. You can have exactly the same code in place implementing the contracts, as long as the two...
3 Jul 2010 by Amir Zuker
The following summarizes the throttling behavior elements and their default value setting.
18 Jul 2010 by Gil Fink
In the new release of WCF Data Services, we get server side paging and this will be addressed in this post.
5 Aug 2010 by Vinayaka Krishna Shenoy
Hi,In summary - Reliability means ensuring that the message is reached safely (from client to the server) without any communication errors.In WCF this can be achieved with just few of the configurations entries.Bindings in wcf which supports this by default are : tcp,named pipe and...
21 Aug 2010 by Vinayaka Krishna Shenoy
Hi,Just to add to Hanlon's explanation....IExternal{//5 methods declaration}IInternal{//5 Internal methods declaration}Service : IExternal,IInternal{}Expose the IExternal....I hope this helps!.Regards,-Vinayak
15 Sep 2010 by Abhishek Sur
Creating a WCF service without Visual Studio
5 Jan 2011 by jerpat
How to get (almost) all your code in one place when using WCF together with Silverlight
27 Nov 2011 by Dave Kerr
Use a single Data Service to expose data from many sources with the Composite Data Service Framework!
29 Dec 2011 by Weidong Shen
This article describes the IClientChangeTracking interface generated by Self-Tracking Entity Generator for WPF/Silverlight.
8 Jan 2012 by ozkary
WCF Web Service Call to Another WCF Web Service returns no data
13 Mar 2012 by Abhinav S
Sorry - no one is going to do your homework for you.Try to build this application yourself - and as and when you face issues while writing code, post them here.Someone will try and help you.
4 Apr 2012 by Omar Al Zabir
WCF Javascript Proxies (Service.svc/js) are never cached. They get generated and downloaded on every page view thus increasing page download time and server CPU. Here's an HttpModule to cache WCF Javascript Proxy on browser and respond with HTTP 304, if unchanged.
10 Apr 2012 by deveck
The different securing mechanisms and how they are set up
4 May 2012 by Wonde Tadesse
This may be wcf transport security issue. You may have to check different security mode for WCF application in the remote(WCF container) server.
15 May 2012 by VJ Reddy
The UserId can be generated from a number using remainder and integer division as shown below:void Main(){ List numbers = new List{ 999999, 1000000, 1999999, 1000000*26+1, 1000000*26*26-1}; foreach(long number in numbers) ...