Windows Communication Foundation is an API for the .NET Framework for building connected, distributed, service-oriented applications under an SOA architecture. WCF supports interoperability with other WCF services deployed on Windows machines or services deployed on other operating systems, using ...
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Using WCF as an API for Database access by the GUI, or no?
Originally I asked this question on Stackoverflow but I was suggested to move the question here.
I've asked this question a while ago in MSDN forums but I'd like a second opinion from ...
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Authentication & Authorization and Auditing in WCF services
I'm trying to find out what are the best possible solutions to achieve Authentication, Authorization & Auditing in service oriented applications.
The scenario is as below :
1. WCF web service ...
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chat/game server best way to implement, is WCF the way to go? [closed]
I'm creating a game on wp7 and it will be an online game played between a max of 4 players. The game will be a turn based game. My question really is what is the best way to do this server wise? is ...
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Communication between WCF service [library] and Self-host [Winform]
Introduction:
I have a WCF service library and a self-host Winform.
service features is File explorer including (copy,move,delete,new folder,delete..etc) and Task Manager (run,kill,update list).
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WCF to Java webservices interop seems surprisingly problematic. Any good resources?
With a recent project our .Net based dev team has been tasked with integrating with a whole host of java based web services around the world, and we really have had a surprisingly (well, we are ...
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ASP.NET MVC vs WCF for REST API + Webpage usage
I think the discussion for programmatic service oriented usage vs human interaction is clear.
But if I were to create an application that makes use of both a programmatic API and a website that makes ...
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REST Service Authentication/Authorization
I have a WCF rest service that will be consumed by multiple clients. The information returned by the client requires me to know who they are, so that I can return information specific to them.
Is ...
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Solutions for software using many calls to a server
I am developing software that uses many calls to a server. On a client side it's a Silverlight application. Almost every time a user clicks on a button in it, it sends 1-5 WCF calls to a server. There ...
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How to build a good service layer in ASP.NET?
I have looked through some questions, technologies for building a good service layer but I have some questions regarding this that I need help with.
First some information of what I have for ...
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JavaScript client for talking with WCF server with WebSockets binding
I'm excited about the possibilities for duplex communication with WebSockets between a web browser and web server. I see that WCF for .NET 4.5 supports a WebSockets binding now, and I know there's a ...
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What security is used by default in WSHttpBinding (service side) or the WCF Test client (client side)?
I recently moved a service from BasicHttpBinding to WSHttpBinding (i.e. soap 1.1 -> soap 1.2). In WCF, using WSHttpBinding() makes it start using some default security settings. I presume the same ...
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If ASP.NET MVC 4 supports RPC style communication what does that mean for WCF?
From http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=28942
ASP.NET MVC 4 also includes ASP.NET Web API, a framework for building
and consuming HTTP services that can reach a broad range of ...
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Imitating Exchange Server's “RBAC AuthZ” in my own application… (is there something similar?)
Exchange 2010 has a delegation model where groups of winrm cmdlets are essentally grouped into roles, and the roles assigned to a user.
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This is a great & flexible model ...
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How should an iPhone app connect to a .NET service?
I need to accept text and photo data from an iPhone app. Normally I would write a web service or a windows service with WCF for client server connections. I'm not familiar with iPhone apps, what is ...
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In Windows 8 will it be possible to use WCF in conjunction with HTML5/JS?
Correct me if I'm wrong but I've heard that communicating with a database in Windows 8 will more than likely be done with WCF when working with C#/XAML.
If this is true then will this also be the ...
