wcf

Data change notification in Silverlight listbox with databinding to WCF Service

I have inherited some Silverlight\WCF code and now need to implement some new features. I fairly new to Silverlight\WCF so my question may be rather basic. So... I have a listbox in Silverlight that binds to a resource that is a List<> returned from a WCF (rest) service (which is just reading values from a db table). I have implemente...

Easiest method to use a client-generated token for WCF authentication

(I tried searching, but couldn't find any truly helpful links.) We are implementing a set of WCF services. What I would like to do in these services is have the clients (which will be trusted application servers) be able to pass a token of some sort to the web service to authenticate. I do not want to be required to pass username/passwo...

What is the best way of pulling json data in terms of performance?

Currently I am using HttpWebRequest to pull json data from an external site, and the performance was not good. Is wcf much better? I need expert advice on this.. ...

Please give reference/guidance to make a web application for managing all IT assest/devices

Please give reference/guidance to make a web application for managing all IT assest/devices . Application consist of two component Web application and Windows .NET Application. Client Windows .NET Application scan all active network & find all IT assests like printer,scanner & upload all data into the web application. Now our team usin...

Tips and Tricks of WCF

After working with WCF with one of my asp.net web application , i really like the way that the ajax stuff works with my application... Some useful Tips and Tricks about WCF from experts would be really helpful for beginners like me... Any useful tip and trick .... ...

Does Order Matter in the XML Read by the DataContractSerializer?

I have the following code: [DataContract(Namespace = "")] public class User { [DataMember] public string UserName { get; set; } [DataMember] public string FullName { get; set; } } //Deserialization test public void Test() { //CASE 1. //string xml = "<User><UserName>john</UserName>" + // "<Ful...

Ajax enabled WCF service not defined

http://forums.asp.net/t/1442084.aspx I created an AJAX-enabled WCF service to call from a web form. the thing is that after creating it, I'm able to populate my dropdown from the items returned by the service. but 2 hours later, I get this FireFox error message when loading the page : "Error: Sys.ArgumentException: Value must not ...

WCF dual binding hosting in IIS

Hi, i am trying to host a service in IIS which has 2 methods... 1 of them can also be accesed via a simple HTTP-GET request... This is my config: <service name="Svc.PaymentService" behaviorConfiguration="DefaultBehavior"> <endpoint address="PaymentService.svc/" bindingName="Http" binding="basicHttpBin...

Hosting a Simple Wcf Service in Console

I am trying to create a simple ConsoleApplication in which i would like to host a simple wcf service. Here is the code for my namespace HostConsoleApplication { class Program { static void Main(string[] args) { using (System.ServiceModel.ServiceHost host = new System.ServiceModel.ServiceHost(typeof(...

What to measure using PerfMon for a .NET WCF web service?

I am looking into Performance issues of an Asp.Net 2.0 Web Site which uses a WCF service. On the Web and the WCF Host Service I am adding some Perf Counters to analyse the application behaviour. What are the Performance Counters which will be useful. I have created a partial list. Can someone suggest me if I am missing any important coun...

What is System.ServiceModel.Diagnostics.CallbackException and why can't I handle it?

In my WCF client class I'm handling the Faulted() event so that if the remote service throws an exception and faults the channel I can still at least shut it down gracefully. Here's my code: protected void RemoteDataRetriever_Faulted(object sender, EventArgs e) { (sender as ICommunicationObject).Abort(); this.Dispose(); thro...

GetRequestStream throws Timeout exception randomly

After googling for couple of days, I really cannot solve described issue. Hope here will find a solution I'm using attached code when calling WCF service on the same server. I get Timeout error randomly in call WebReq.GetRequestStream() When I'm check netstat I see that connection remains open, so probably is there a problem, but I don...

WCF file transfer with cancellation support

Hi all! There are a lot of questions regarding file transfer with WCF. I've got everything working, including larges files in "chunked" mode. I have the option to cancel the file upload from the sending party (the one that starts the upload) and a callback interface to notify when the transfer is accepted, and canceled. My problem is ...

WIF (Windows Identity Foundation) with SAML 2.0

First some background: We were recently tasked to send a SAML 2.0 assertion to the server that we are communicating with. We are using WCF for our client. The server is not using WCF. The guys who implement the server, don't have an STS that will issue a SAML assertion. We are trying to use WIF framework because it supports SAML 2.0 tok...

WCF problem with POSTs using ssl (https)

Hello, I currently have a webHttp binding WCF restful service, it works great over http, I can make Post of large sizes due to my webconfig settings, now I am trying to use it over https (ssl), now my gets work fine, but my posts dont, it doesnt work when the file size is over a certain amount, i was wondering why this could be since ...

WCF + TDD : adding service references to your test projects: Bad?

Hello, I'm starting to TDD and I want to know if it is a bad practice to add a service reference to test my project or if I just mock a fake service on my tests that depends of the WCF service. ...

WCF Call Passing a Null Parameter

I have a WebHttpBinding WCF service that I am calling. My first POST method send the object correctly, but subsequent calls to POST methods are passing null for the object. Here is my service: public void Update(ObjectDTO objectDTO) { string token = WebOperationContext.Current != null ? WebOperationContext.Current.IncomingRequest.He...

Adding a web Proxy for a client created with NetCFSvcUtil with credentials.

We have an implemented a WCF service for sync framework communication with the guidance of http://wcfguidanceformobile.codeplex.com/ . The client in created by NetCFSvcUtil. We have run into a problem when web proxy support is needed. How can you enable credentials with it? On the HttpTransportBindingElement we can set the proxyadre...

Client CPU goes almost 100% when stop service..

Hi, We have a service which is hosted as windows service. netTcpBinding with message security type without reliable session. On the client side we have a proxy collection cached in a list as channel creation and dispose is costly operations. My client is connecting to server and get the data from server. Now if I stop the server, then ...

Performance issues with ASP.NET MVC/WCF site & Oracle backend

Hello everyone, We are building an extranet loan status check website using ASP.NET MVC with a WCF backend. Its a pretty standard design with the MVC site using a WCF service reference to get customer objects. The ervice uses an Oracle backend + http binding, and won't be hosted on the same server as the MVC site (so we can't use tcp b...