I've created my own WCF service and I've successfully been able to talk to it via my Silverlight client. I ran into an interesting problem on my asynchronous callbacks though. When my callback is invoked, I can't update any UI controls with the dreaded invalid cross thread access Here's what my callback function looks like private ...
I have a selfhosted WCF service application which I want to deploy by a msi installer package. The endpoint uses http port 8888. In order to startup the project under windows 2008 after installation I have to either run the program as administrator or have to edit the http settings with netsh: "netsh http add urlacl url=http://+:8888/ ...
I have a WCF service that I am attempting to connect to via a console application for testing (although will move to WPF for the final interface). I have generated the proxy, added the service reference to my project in visual studio and I can see all the methods I have created in my WCF interface: SupportStaffServiceClient client = ne...
I know for a matter of fact that Type cannot be used when passing in to a WCF service. Does anyone have a complete list? ...
If I have an object that holds the parameters for my method. I need to change the Object to have an additional property. I have full control over the server, but not over all of the clients. Will this change make those clients break? I am using a self-hosted service with a binary endpoint. I am new to WCF so my apologies if this is a s...
There are a lot of information how to build Silverlight application using .NET RIA services, but it isn't clear what is unique thing in RIA that is absent in WCF? Here are few topics that are talking around this topic: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1647225/ria-services-versus-wcf-services http://stackoverflow.com/questions/945123/n...
Hi everybody. In my project I have a Windows Service and a WCF Service doing some actions on the same folder on a computer. The location of that folder will be given by the user within an app.config file that is included in the Windows Service project. Now, I want the WCF Service to know the location of that folder (the folder given by...
I need to put request specific data in WCF? Is it safe to use ThreadStatic variable in WCF? ...
I have a simple WCF service that returns the time from the server. I've confirmed that data is being sent by checking with Fiddler. Here's the result object xml that my service sends. <s:Envelope xmlns:s="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"> <s:Body> <GetTimeResponse xmlns="http://tempuri.org/"> ...
I have the following function trying to create a callback InstanceContext from metadata of other services. private InstanceContext GetCallbackIC(Type proxy, ServiceEndpoint endpoint){ try { IDuplexContextChannel dcc; PropertyInfo pi = proxy.GetProperty("InnerDuplexChannel"); if (pi.GetIn...
We are facing a very complex issue in our production application. We have a WCF method which creates a complex Entity in the database with all its relation. public void InsertEntity(Entity entity) { using(TransactionScope scope = new TransactionScope()) { EntityDao.Create(entity); } } EntityDao.Cr...
Hi,,, I’m working on an application which has been designed using n-tire application architecture .The application was developed in the .NET platform utilizing C#,VB.NEt, Framework 3.5, Dataset, WCF, asp.net update panel, JavaScript ,Josn, 3rd Party tools. my current proposed layout is such presentation layer -> Business Logic -> WCF ...
I want to use WCF to send live images from one app to a remote app, and the communication maybe last months, is WCF suitable for this scenario? thanks. ...
Reading up on WCF we have self hosting option available , one limitation here is we have to manage the host process lifecycle ourselves. What I am exploring here is to run the service without IIS and do a self hosting. Few things come to mind - How will request management work here. In case of IIS it manages the request and give control...
When you have to introduce a breaking change in a ServiceContract, a best practice is to keep the old one and create a new one, and use some version identifier in the namespace. If I understand this correctly, I should be able to do the following: [ServiceContract(Namespace = "http://foo.com/2010/01/14")] public interface IVersionedSer...
In the web servce I say public List<Customer> GetCustomers() { PR1Entities dc = new PR1Entities(); var q = (from x in dc.Customers select x).ToList(); return q; } (customer is a entity object) Then I generate the proxy when I add the service.. and in the reference.cd it say public wcf...
I am trying to profile a WCF service using visual studio profiler. So i created a profile by choosing asp.net application, and gave it the url of the web service. When i launch the session, it launches a web page to the site. I then run my unit test using another visual studio client, but the test always fails with with communication ex...
Is there any good JAVA lib for playing with reading from WSDL's and connecting to WS-* bindings? ...
I've stopped the website in IIS, made a change in Web.config, but the damn thing keeps writting my log events into my database! The only solution I've found is to restart IIS completely. This isn't a very good solution because then all my websites have to stop/restart. UPDATE I've done some digging around and found the servicefactory t...
I want to remove the default xmlns (namespace) added to my service's response (see image below) Is there a way to do this? This because in order to consume this service from a C# windows app, I have to add the namespace to every data object's header - DataContract that I will be serializing. ...