I have been unable to find any documentation on properly closing database connections in WCF service operations. I have a service that returns a streamed response through the following method. public virtual Message GetData() { string sqlString = BuildSqlString(); SqlConnection conn = Utils.GetConnection(); SqlCommand cmd =...
I know WCF can be self hosted. how about WCF RIA Services? Thanks! ...
Looking at an older stackoverflow post (back in June 2009, http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1006309/is-the-wcf-rest-starter-kit-dead-in-the-water), a Microsoft employee said they were pretty close to releasing the next version of the Starter Kit. That was a looong time ago and... they haven't released one. So I'm asking again, Micros...
I have been making use of the WCF Authentication Service in ASP.Net but I have found that whenever you navigate all session, user, login data is lost. I have tested using the Standard ASP.Net Login page and mechanism and everything works fine... Why is nothing persisting from one page to another? ...
I have a wcf service I am setting up to run under IIS 7. I have the service set to streaming for the transfermode. When I self host the service in a console application every thing seems to work ok. But when the client connects to an iis hosted service it seems to be buffering, and the client eventual times out. I have used fiddler to ...
If I use code like this [just below] to add Message Headers to my OperationContext, will all future out-going messages contain that data on any new ClientProxy defined from the same "run" of my application? The objective, is to pass a parameter or two to each OpeartionContract w/out messing with the signature of the OperationContract, s...
I have a server that needs to receive information from a client, web services was my first thought until a limitation was imposed. I am not allowed to setup a normal client/server interaction, because the server is not allowed to listen on any ports. The server is allowed to call out, so I'm left with : Having the server poll from the...
Here is my situation. I have written a WCF service which calls into one of our vendor's code bases to perform operations, such as Login, Logout, etc. A requirement of this operation is that we have a background thread to receive events as a result of that action. For example, the Login action is sent on the main thread. Then, several eve...
This question is about “informational messages” and having them flow from a “back end” to a “front end” in a consistent manner. The quick question is “how do you do it”? Background: Web application using WCF to call back end services. In the back end service a “message” may occur. Now, the reason for this “message” may be a number of ...
Hi! I am trying to get along with WCF's duplex contracts. A code from this article (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms731184.aspx) ICalculatorDuplexCallback callback = null; callback = OperationContext.Current.GetCallbackChannel(); throws a NullReferenceException. So how can i manage this? Thanks for your attention! ...
when I setup the wcf service on a web server, I set the end point address as <endpoint address="http://www.mydomin.com/clientname/happy.svc" binding="basicHttpBinding" name="happysvcbasic" contract="happysvc.Ihappysvc"> </endpoint> but when type in above address on a browser, I get a diff...
I'd like to override the Dispose method of generated proxy (ClientBase) because of the fact that disposing of a proxy calls Close and can throw an exception when the channel is faulted. The only way I came up was to create a partial class to my generated proxy, make it inherit from IDisposable: public partial class MyServiceProxy : I...
I have a WCF service which would like to support basicHttpBinding and webHttpBinding. When the client successfully login, server will generate a token for client to pass to server on all the request make later. Question is how the client can pass the token to server? I don't want to add an extra parameter on every web method to hold the ...
I need to create a service that will be "called back" by a third party. As a result, I need to conform to their WSDL. Their WSDL has all of the operations defined with soapAction="", so my service needs to do the same. Unfortunately, I'm getting the error: The operations A and B have the same action (). Every operation must h...
I am aware that there is a similar question here with no solution. I'm working on a WCF streaming service over HTTP. Here are my MessageContract [MessageContract] public class FileRequest { #region Message Header [MessageHeader(MustUnderstand = true)] public Credential Credentials { get; set; } #endregion #regio...
I want to secure my WCF service. For example if I want to generate public / private key pair without involving any third-party certification authority. What is the way and method to do it? Any idea or any other approach. ...
Hi, I am using SQL Server 2008 and the WebSharingAppDemo-SqlProviderEndToEnd sample and this is almost perfect for my needs however I am unable to detect conflicts. By default ConflictResolutionPolicy is set to ApplicationDefined. I have tried setting the ResolutionPolicy to SourceWins, DestinationWins or ApplicationDefined and I alwa...
I have an application with numerous WCF services that make use of LINQ-To-SQL as the data access model. I am having lots of problems with the "DataContext accessed after Dispose" exception. I understand what this exception is and that it is occurring because I have not "initialised" the data that is trying to be accessed. I've read many ...
I have a service with the metadata exposed. Trouble is when I browse to the wsdl the service page it has the machine name as below: MasterLibrary Service You have created a service. To test this service, you will need to create a client and use it to call the service. You can do this using the svcutil.exe tool from the command li...
I have a WCF service which is hosted on IIS6 on a Win2003 SP2 machine. The WCF service is hosting correctly and is visible over HTTP giving the usual "To test this service, you will need to create a client and use it to call the service" message. However accessing the .svc?WSDL link causes the connection to be reset. The server itself ...