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WCF NetTCP Binding Over Internet

Hello. I have a question. I would like to serve a series of services made with WCF. The client that consumes the services is also .NET with WCF. I would like to have high speed of access, fast response, transport medium to small Data Contracts (primary .net basic data types). The distribution will be over internet, I´m looking for reli...

PRISM and WCF - Do they play nice?

Ok, this is a more general "ugly critters in the corner" question. I am planning to start a project on WCF and PRISM. I have been playing around with PRISM some time know, and must say, I like it. Solid foundation for applications with nice possibilities to grow. Now I want to incorporate WCF and build a distributed application, with o...

Calling Client-Side WCF Service With Type List<Of T>

Hi. I am designing a multi-file upload service that also shows upload progress for each file. If I was to design my WCF method as a SOAP contract, I would do something like this: var request = IService.UploadMethod(List<Upload> request); But, how do I pass the parameter ""request"" of type "List<Upload>" when I am calling the method...

Sharing ASP.NET Session State With WCF Session

How can I share my asp.net session with wcf session . Say I have a Session["UserId"] in my asp.net application . I want to access this inside the WCF Signature . I enabled aspNetCompatibilityEnabled="true" in Webconfig & [ServiceContract(SessionMode=SessionMode.Required)] in WCF. I don't want to pass this session as an argument . How ca...

WCF REST list HTTP headers on incoming request

I've fired up the WCF REST starter kit and am trying to access the HTTP headers on the incoming request. I've looked at OperationContext.Current.IncomingMessageHeaders but either it doesn't hold them or I'm accessing it wrong. How do I list the HTTP headers? ...

How to serialize parameters in Web Service method

Hi, I have this problem. I have WCF .Net C# web service with this method: public interface IMyService { // TODO: Add your service operations here [OperationContract] ListOfRequests GetListOfRequests(string par1, string par2, string par3, ...

Uploading file with WCF streaming, tiny reads from stream

Hi I've implemented file uploading using WCF's streaming. Everything works as expected, however i faced one issue: i'm allocating 4kb buffer to read from incoming stream, but WCF reads only 255 bytes. Here is my upload function: public UploadResponse UploadFile(FileDto fileDto) { using (var inStream = fileDto.FileStream) ...

Silverlight looking at wrong url for clientaccesspolicy file.

Hello Everyone, i have a silverlight app connected to a webservice over https. The webservice is hosted on mydomain.com (not localhost). When i run the silverlight, it makes https calls to webservice on mydomain.com, but also tries to access "http://localhost/clientaccesspolicy.xml" and fails obviously. Why is my SL app looking for ca...

WCF, SubSonic SimpleRepository and multithreading

I'm currently in the process of writing a WCF REST service with SubSonic SimpleRepository and the WCF REST Contrib library. The service is going to be hosted on IIS 7. The database is going to be MS SQL Server. I could not really find a good example which is using this combination of technologies on the internet. The service should expos...

How to log WCF exception shielding's {Guid} in client

I'm using WCF Exception Shielding to map various exceptions to FaultContracts so I can limit what information I expose to the client. I had hoped to leverage the {Guid} mapping property so I could correlate client logs and server logs: <mappings> <add source="{Guid}" name="Id" /> <add source="{Message}" name="MessageText" /> </mapp...

Send Authenticated User To WCF Application

I have 2 applications; one is a ASP.NET 3.5 Ajax Application (Client) and the other is a WCF Web Application (BackEnd). The applications are deployed in a separate Windows Server 2008 over IIS 7. The backend application has the net.tcp and http bindings enabled; some services are exposed under the netTcpBinding and other services are e...

Sharing hardware resources with WCF service clients

So I am embarking on creating a desktop WCF service that, at its core, access hardware attached to a serial port. Obviously there is only one port, and several entities that are derived from that hardware (nodes in a Zigbee network if you care) need to be shared with all service clients equally. A quick look at Chapeter 8 of Juval Lowy...

Is log4net killing my WCF unit tests?

I have three projects in my solution: A WCF web service which provides functionality I want to test A Web Application which calls that web service A test project which runs tests on the service. The web service and the web application both use log4net with separate configuration files and this line in the AssemblyInfo.cs for configur...

How can I specify an alternate config file for a WCF client?

I am working on a large system, for which I have to use WCF to access a web service. My test code works fine, now I need to integrate my WCF client code into the larger system. I cannot add to the existing 'app.config' file, and would like specify a separate .config file for use by my client code. How best can I accomplish this? Than...

Issue while hosting WCF service on IIS 7

I am unable to browser the service which is hosted on the IIS 7 windows server 2008 When I hit the url http://myservice/service1.svc it throws an error Can anybody help me in this Its urgent. Thank You in advance Selwyn. ...

WCF Client DLL Internet Delivery Problem

We are creating a WCF service with a companion client DLL (.Net) that we will be delivering to a user's GAC via a web page. The DLL knows how to communicate with and how to interface with the service, and will allow the web page to communicate with the WCF service via client-side Javascript calls. The user's machine will be executing the...

Multiple Services Hosted under one Windows Service

Hello there, I have two Services called TemplateService, TemplateReportService (both defined in one WCF Service Library) to be exposed to the client application. Is it possible to host these two services under one Windows Service? Thank you! ...

wsdl.exe-generated WCF service exposing private fields in wsdl

I'm doing some wsdl- and client-first development in C# with WCF (the wsdl and client already exist, I'm building the server-side,) and I'm having an odd issue. I used wsdl.exe to generate a contract from my .wsdl, and I'm able to build it and host the WCF service as a Windows service. However, the wsdl I get from http://localhost/Servi...

wcf Extract wsdl from WCF Service with Flattened WSDL

I have a wcf web service and I need to provide the client with the wsdl files. Previously I used svcutil on the .dll and everything was fine. However, recently I implemented the factory to Flaten the wsdl file (re: http://wcfextras.codeplex.com/). My questions is this: Is there anyway of either using svcutil on the .svc to extract t...

How can I inject an object into an WCF IErrorHandler implementation with Castle Windsor?

I'm developing a set of services using WCF. The application is doing dependency injection with Castle Windsor. I've added an IErrorHandler implementation that is added to services via an attribute. Everything is working thus far. The IErrorHandler object (of a class called FaultHandler is being applied properly and invoked. Now I'm addi...