Windows Communication Foundation is a part of the .NET Framework that provides a unified programming model for rapidly building service-oriented applications.
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Inter-Process Communication in .NET on the same computer
I want to split a C++/CLI application on two parts :
1. Communication Part, with I/O + logging on text file :
3 COM Ports, 2 sockets and 1 log file
2. UI Part, to handle the data received from COM ...
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Differentiate Callers in WCF Service
I am working on a WCF Service that returns the Status for a Device.
A Device has multiple Status for different Companies. I need to develop a WCF Service that allows a Company to retrieve the Status ...
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Design pattern for WPF
Have a plain WPF that started a proof of concept got demoed and bought and went down that path for a couple years.
Time to start fresh and would like to know proper pattern.
A WPF app that will ...
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Can you create duplicate instances of the same program on different machines asynchronously?
Okay so I work on a server application that has multiple communication methods. Including but not limited to WCF, TCP and RESTFUL. These all share information with clients but recently we have been ...
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Two way communication between applications
I am currently looking into re-architecture of some of my organization applications. Other questions aside, the one that I am currently trying to figure out the best approach for currently is the ...
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Consume ASP.Net REST API service
I am creating ASP.Net REST API application and stuck on the part where I should consume the REST service.
I am not sure how to find the way let me accomplish the following:
1. I don't want it to be ...
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Implementing workflow to an enterprise application [closed]
We are a few developers develoing an enterprise project includes several modules and approximately 200 UI resources for
our company. Project will be written/programmed in Asp.NET MVC, WCF services for ...
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Authenticate to a SQL Server with Active Directory credentials from a UWP app
I've been tasked to design an application and a database to store information our company's electricians have measured on-site. We need to save in our database who exactly did which measurement.
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use of minOccurs=“0” without nillable=“true” in SOAP
I have received an XSD from a 3rd party supplier generated from a Java based system; which is to be used to create a SOAP endpoint for us to receive data transfers. Their XSD does not make any use of ...
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WCF security with Java client
I'm about to develop a WCF service which is going to be called by an external Java client. I've developed a couple of services before but they were called internally, so security is now a concern.
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How to execute multiple timed intervals?
I'm having a hard time planning how to implement the architecture.
The problem:
> A user can save a number of profiles:
> Name
> URL
> Time Interval
Name | URL |...
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Architecture supporting digitally signing of tons of soap requests [closed]
What is the optimal architecture for such case:
Web application(.Net Web Forms) connects to third party web service via wcf.
Third party web service accepts only digitally signed soap requests
Some ...
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WCF service design
I am rather new to WCF (or rest, or Json for that matter) and I'd like to have some expert opinions on which methods to define.
Some short introduction to give an idea of what the webservice should ...
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Architecture for C# Chat Application - not sure if WCF is right
I had written a WCF based "chat/notification" system but I am questioning my decision if WCF is a good fit.
I have an external 3rd party lib that calls my process when events arrive:
public class ...
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Architecture: mobile apps for different clients with their own dbs different servers?
My general feeling is that this is a question which must have been answered but I am struggling to find resources for it. I know little about mobile app dev but my knowledge of web services is pretty ...
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Is using a self-hosted service a viable option for launching applications from a url?
We have a third party supplied application with a button that enables the opening of another application showing related data when pressed (these applications are made by completely different ...
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Resource manager for restful service
I was just brought onto a project with a service oriented architecture. There is a central WCF "profile service" that all projects call to get information on users etc.
That central profile service ...
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When to implement WCF Rest Service and WebApi
I have gone through many articles to understand why we need WebApi's when we can create restful architecture using WCF rest services but could not find some solid reason. Can we use these ...
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WCF service with methods to fetch data
I'm planning on building a WCF service that will fetch data entities from a Sql Server database. And I'm currently struggling with best practices issues.
The thing is that there's a few different ...
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Events in WCF Service Architecture (Server Side)
Problem:
Now, I have some events that will take place when the client submits a request to the server. These events will arise on the server and they will be subscribed by the services themselves (...
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DLL or web service for common functions?
We have a variety of basic functions (date utilities, email sending, internal math calculations, etc) that are currently in an old VB.NET project.
We're going to move towards C# and I'm wondering if ...
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Advice on architecture (WCF / MVC)
First of all, the basics.
N-tier application: presentation, business layer, database. It is an old .NET 2.0 (WSE + WinForms) application, a bit more tightly coupled than I'd like, and the requirement ...
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Should i avoid FaultException for Custom Validation Error messages to client [duplicate]
We are as a team working on a project which currently using WCF as in between client and server.
All business rules are written on managers classes which are used by service so its means no ...
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In WCF, why would one deliberately use strict schema validation?
I'm reviewing best practices articles for WCF versioning. A lot of the recommendations revolve around one decision: "Are you using strict versioning? If so, treat every contract as immutable. If not, ....
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Is this breaking SOA?
We're havng a bit of a disagreement in our team, and I would like to hear other people's views. We have a mature solution that uses an Entity Framework model, which is accessed by a repository layer, ...
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How shall I project CQRS command and query services through WCF
I got directed to this site for more conceptual questions. Here is my issue:
Im designing an application that uses CQRS to expose functionality to higher levels in the stack. This looks like below (...
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WCF Project Structure & Maintainability
We are working on a medium scale WCF project configured to use per call instancing and wondering weather it's a good practice to create classes per service method to hold the business logic since each ...
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SOA principles, encapsulation and autonomy
We are developing multiple web services in C# using WCF, but we´re new doing it.
So, for what we have read and learnt, this is our approach:
We have a class library that we called CommonLibrary that ...
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.NET WCF: Persistent connection or Open/Close as needed?
I have a .NET WCF web service currently running in production right now. I would say 95% of the time it works flawlessly and as intended. However; there are times when I am throwing an exception that ...
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Clients connect to WCF or SQL Server
I was wondering what is the prefered way of accessing data from a server in a client application. The data will be stored on the server in an SQL database and I have previously used the following 2 ...
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What is the best and most optimized way to return a filestream from a .NET WCF SOAP service?
To give some background, i have a WCF SOAP service in .NET that needs to return pdf files. This service will be used by multiple application, many times in a day. The size of the files returned varies ...
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MVC Sites and Entity Framework (using DbContext)
I've been looking at a couple of the MVC tutorials on the ASP.NET website and and have noticed numerous of them make use of Entity Framework (especially the Identity provider stuff).
Maybe my ...
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Caching Strategy: WCF Buffer pooling and size
I am currently trying to understand the best configuration for caching. I am using Azure In-Role caching (currently Colocated, but Dedicated at a later point) in a Web Api 2 application in .NET 4.5.1....
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Best practise to versioning Web Service WCF
I've a web service SOAP developed with WCF, there is a best practise to versioning it? when I change the contract I don't want to update all the client's referiments but I want simply publish a new ...
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how to modularize wcf services?
I am working on a WCF application that supports 4 different applications.
lets call those 4 application: App1, App2, App3, and App4.
this WCF Application has 4 services. one for each application. 4 ...
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Can't understand on how to implement MVP/MVC for my software requirements [closed]
Recently I decided to start developing a client/service based system using WCF and a Duplex Channel (callbacks from Service to client). The clients will behave as "slaves", that is, they will only ...
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WCF vs Web API, Deeper details? [closed]
Before I continue, I just want to mention I have heavily researched and searched on this topic, but I need the opinion of people who have worked/and or have practical knowledge with regards to this ...
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Long running task initiated in the web site
The plan is to develop generic solution for long running task initiated in web site by users such as:
1. upload large file and do some custom processing and then insert in the database.
2. export ...
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ISerializable vs WCF attributes
In C# .NET there is two main possibilities to serialize and object.
Implementing the ISerializable interface?
Using the [DataContract/DataMember] serialization attribute of WCF?
What are the ...
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Problem : Certificate for multi Clients of WCF
If My WCF service have big number of clients through the
Internet,then whether should all of them share the same Client
Certificate(X509)?
And if their certificates should be unique , what should I do ...
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Server should accumulate several requests and to retrurn response for all
For example I have a server [c#] and 4 clients. When the first client sends a request to the server I want to push a notification to the other 3 clients that they should send a request to the server ...
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X509 certificate question on WCF
My condition:
A WCF service which is self-hosted and it's on a Win8 Machine.
Client is a WPF Program on another machine.
Then I follow the article on Codeproject about how to set X509 certificate ...
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Is WCF strictly an asynchonous comms platform?
Since I last had to do any comms/network programming, the field has exploded with acronyms. In fact, networking almost feels like it is now described by a whole new language.
The very name "Windows ...
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Reliable secure data exchange between service written on .NET and an iOS client app
I have a service written on .NET working on a company server. It designed to do a very simple thing, to receive a request via WCF named pipes from another service working locally on the same server, ...
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How to stop the WCF service (database queriying) running behind
I have a WCF service which will get an object with huge data from database in the form of collection.
I have a UI which has get and cancel buttons .
Get button : make service request and continue ...
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WCF service - best way to accept requests from a client and do background work?
For a project at work, I was tasked to create a WCF service that will receive email messages from client and queue them on a database, while at the same time the service will check the DB every 30 ...
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Domain driven design and WCF services architecture
I am trying to figure out how to architecture my project in the DDD paradigm (a complete beginner in DDD) and stumbled upon a problem about the implementation of the web services... These are some ...
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How do I access databases from a mobile device securely?
I have been doing some research on accessing a DB from mobile devices. There are so many different ways of doing it. There are also multiple ways to make it secure. What is a good way to access a ...
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Are Calls to a WCF Service via JSONP Secure?
I am looking at developing a complete HTML5/JS mobile app that can be deployed to Android, iOS and Windows platforms. I am using DevExtreme tools to help me do that.
I already have a WCF service that ...
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How to handle field level Acces Security when using Entity Framework
Scenario: a large existing system (~300 tables, 500 stored procs, 200 views and a code base of several 100k lines) with most security level stuff in stored procedures needs to be refactored (for ...
