wcf

Need some help/advice on WCF Per-Call Service and NServiceBus interop.

I have WCF Per-Call service wich provides data for clients and at the same time is integrated with NServiceBus. All statefull objects are stored in UnityContainer wich is integrated into custom service host. NServiceBus is configured in service host and uses same container as service instances. Every client has its own instance context(d...

How to not write to Disk response of WCF Request in ASP.NET IIS7

I have an ASP.NET 3.5 application running on IIS7, which is consuming a WCF service using Buffered method. I am noticing that IIS is writing the results of the request in the Temporary ASP.NET files. Is there a way to crontol this so is not written on disk? ...

WCF Sharing an object between Client and Host

Hey, I can't seem to access the returned value from a method I called on my Host. //Service--------------------------------------------------------- [DataMember] private List<CalculationRecord> History = new List<CalculationRecord>(); public IEnumerable<CalculationRecord> CalculationHistory() { return (IEnum...

NHibernate WCF Rest IIS7 Fails with Security Exception

Here is the error: System.TypeInitializationException: The type initializer for 'NHibernate.Cfg.Environment' threw an exception. ---> System.Security.SecurityException: Request for ConfigurationPermission failed while attempting to access configuration section 'hibernate-configuration'. To allow all callers to access the data for ...

If WCF is the future why do searches for "web services" still point to ASMX?

I am needing to create a web service, so the first thing I did of course was go to google If you look in those results, you'll see nothing but things about ASMX, which apparently is dubbed legacy technology to be replaced by WCF. Why is it that ASMX is still so vastly popular compared to WCF? (of course, on SO WCF is way more popular.. ...

Can I compose a WCF callback contract out of multiple interfaces?

Followup question to http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2502930/how-can-i-compose-a-wcf-contract-out-of-multiple-interfaces. I tried to merge multiple callback interfaces in a single interface. This yields an InvalidOperationException claiming that the final interface contains no operations. Technically, this is true, however, the inher...

ISA Web Farm and WCF service hosted in a Windows Service with basicHttpBinding

I have created a WCF service that needs to be hosted in a Window Service because it is participating in a P2P mesh (NetPeerTcpBinding). When I tried to host the WCF Service with NetPeerTcpBinding endpoints in the IIS Service container the service wouldn't run because it turns out that the P2P binding doesn't work in IIS. I have exposed...

Can a WCF contract use multiple callback interfaces?

I'm trying something like this: [ServiceContract ( CallbackContract = typeof (CallbackContract_1), CallbackContract = typeof (CallbackContract_2), CallbackContract = typeof (CallbackContract_3)) ] public interface SomeWcfContract { I know it does not work like this. Is there still a way to get a single contract use multipl...

Gratuitous use of System.Runtime.Serialization attributes?

Is there any cost/drawback (apart from typing too much) to adorning a class with System.Runtime.Serialization attributes (like [DataContract]) such that it can be used locally as a direct reference to a desktop Client project or as a type for a WCF service? The goal here is to write a data-tier class that can be used in both rich client ...

Get Dataset returned from an ajax enabled wcf service....

I call an ajax enabled wcf service method , <script type="text/javascript"> function GetEmployee() { Service.GetEmployeeData('1','5',onGetDataSuccess); } function onGetDataSuccess(result) { Iteratejsondata(result) } </script> and my method is , [OperationContract] public string GetEmplo...

WCF - Wsdl.exe generated class - Service timeout

Hi All, I've created a WCF service project. Using the standard generated example service the project generates I create a wrapper class using wsdl.exe. However the service times out when I use the following code: Service1 svc = new Service1(); svc.UseDefaultCredentials = true; svc.Url = "http://localhost:16218/...

How to automatically start a C# WebService?

Hi, I have written a C# WebService. The problem is that after I publish it to IIS it won't automatically start unless any of its methods is called. This is very frustrating because this WebService has to continuously do some background work immediately after it starts (its constructor executes). If IIS is restarted, the WebService will ...

WCF(HTTPS,UserName) calling by SilverLight

Hello colleagues. I've created wcf service with transport security over HTTPS. Also I use UserName authentication as described at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc949025.aspx, so I can use my Membership,RoleProvider. When I work with this service with ASP.NET all is OK var client = new RegistratorClient(); client.ClientCred...

WSDL file is missing for WCF WebService

I created simple wcf service with default functionality and hosted in IIS7. Its working fine and rendering data to the client. But when I try to click on wsdl link in the service its showing "Page cannot be displayed".Let me know what will be the problem . When I try to click the link below (http://win-nsms.smsserver.com/VirtualFolder/My...

WCF Translators

Is there a better way in WCF werein we could avoid the translation betwee business entities and service entities, just to avoid the whole translator logic for complex entities.Any insight on this topic is welcome ...

Developer certificate vs purchased certificate for WCF

I understsand that if I want to use authentication in WCF then I need to install a certificate on my server which WCF will use to encrypt data passing between my server and client. For development purposes I believe I can use the makecert.exe util. to make a development certificate. What is the worst that can happen if I use this certi...

WCF Advanced Books

Hi, I've read all questions like mine and found a few good links. My question is about architect of WCF, how it is designed, how is generated reference.vb, wsdl and xsd files. How can I do that manually, some good examples of WCF Systems (mostly on desktop applications over TCP). I'd like a book or documentation or anything else, tha...

Are WCF callbacks only for short-lived connections?

I was told that WCF callbacks are not to be used in situations when the connection is kept for a long time (say, a week) even though the callback operations themselves are short (< 1s). Is this true? Where can I find more information on this? ...

Can't get up with RIA demo

Based the article I've tried to start-up the RIA services. At the moment there are 2 blockers: On the client side I don't have <datagrid:DataGrid component. Does anybody know what namespace contains this object? (already resolved with Silverlight Toolkit usage, thanks to Refracted Paladin for help) On the client side I don't have ac...

Type not exposed by WCF Service

Hello all, I have a small test web service to emulate something odd I'm noticing in a real world app. As the demo shows the same behaviour as the app I will use the demo for brevity. In short My service interface file looks as follows (as you can see it is the default WCF service created by VS2008 but I have added a new public method (...