wcf

WCF Service Library Reference in a Web Form (asp.net)

I am not sure if this is the correct way of doing but I read that you not suppose to have a WCF Service Library reference in your web form project rather you add endpoints to your web.config, is that true? Here is what I have done: create a WCF service library project create a simple service called "MyService.svc" WebForm: Create ...

How to make dynamically generated .net service client read configuration from another location than *.config files

Hi, I've currently written code to use the ServiceContractGenerator to generate web service client code based on a wsdl, and then compile it into an assembly in memory using the code dom. I'm then using reflection to set up the binding, endpoint, service values/types, and then ultimately invoke the web service method based on xml config...

XBAP Browser Control - Invoking Click event of the html Input type button

Hi, Here is what I have. XBAP application with WPF Browser control, hosted on Page1.xaml XBAP in Full Trust, certificate installed in client browser Once the XBAP loaded, the browser control is navigated to some third party site. We are using MVVM for XAML stuff So, when a certain page is loaded, I attach click event handler to th...

WCF service with 2 Bindings and 2 Base Addresses

I have written a WCF service (I am a newb) that I want to provide 2 endpoints for (net.tcp & basicHttp) The problem comes when I try to configure the endpoints. If I configure them as seperate services, then my service names are the same which causes a problem. I have seen recomended creating shim classes (classA : MyService, and Clas...

problem in multiple asynchronous calls on webservice method in wpf application

Hello Experts! i'm trying to create an application which connects to internet and consume web services for every of it's operation.As far as i'm concerned i'll like to useasync method which i'm using already to get a collection of Contacts.I've realized that when i'm doing the same for groups (meaning getting groups async) i'm having err...

Create a new webpage using a WCF service

Hello, I'd like to create WCF operation contract which consumes a string, produces a public webpage and then returns the address of this new page. [ServiceContract(Namespace = "")] public class DatabaseService { [OperationContract] public string BuildPage(string fileName, string html) { //writes html to file ...

MVC-style model binding in WCF?

I want to bind POSTed form values to parameters in my WCF operation in the same way that ASP.Net MVC allows me to do. So, for example if my form has "customer.Name" and "customer.Age" parameters, I want to make a standard HTML POST to a named endpoint/operation that takes a customer parameter and have it instantiated and populated like ...

Self hosted WCF ServiceHost/WebServiceHost Concurrency/Peformance Design Options (.NET 3.5)

So I'll be providing a few functions via a self hosted (in a WindowsService) WebServiceHost (not sure how to process HTTP GET/POST with ServiceHost), one of which may be called a large amount of the time. This function will also rely on a connection in the appdomain (hosted by the WindowsService so it can stay alive over multiple request...

Only send populated object properties over WCF?

I have an object that is being sent across WCF that is essentially a property holder - it can potentially have a large number of properties, i.e. up to 100, but in general only a small subset will be set, up to 10 for instance. Example: [DataContract(Namespace = "...")] public class Monkey { [DataMember] public string A...

MVC Authentication through WCF

In learning WCF, I'm a bit confused where to go to figure out how I should be handling user authentication. My MVC 2 app uses an Active Directory Membership Provider and this works and is good, but my MVC app doesn't really do anything but call my WCF services. My business logic on the other side of WCF is what really does everything (as...

Active Directory authentication in wcf service

I am authenticating my ASP.Net application through Active Directory(Microsoft ADFS Proxy). Now I want to move this authentication to WCF service so that authentication will b done there and later on this service will b flexible. Let me know how to proceed for this and what are the binding types required for this ...

Selecting a sequence of elements from the IList

I have a IList. where the object PersonDetails consists of the persons name, address and phone number. The list consists of more than 1000 person details. I would like to display 50 PersonDetails per page. Is there a way to select only 50 elements from the list, and return them. For example. myList.select(1,50) myList.select(51, 100) ...

Enums, DataContracts and WCF question

I am new to WCF and have a simple question... My DataContract class returns an Enum type to the consumer from one of it's exposed methods. The consumer is able to see the enum type, and instantiate variables of that typel. However, I have not provided a [DataContract] nor [EnumMember]s for the enum in the service. My question is, wh...

.NET: Can I use DataContractJsonSerializer to serialize to a JSON associative array?

When using DataContractJsonSerializer to serialize a dictionary, like so: [CollectionDataContract] public class Clazz : Dictionary<String,String> {} .... var c1 = new Clazz(); c1["Red"] = "Rosso"; c1["Blue"] = "Blu"; c1["Green"] = "Verde"; Serializing c1 with this code: var dcjs = new DataContractJsonSer...

Different return XML in a WCF Operation

I am writing a service to a international HTTP standard, and there is one method that can return three different XML results, call them Single, Multiple and Error. Now I've written an IXmlSerializable class that can consume each of these results and generate them. However, WCF seems to insist that I can only have a single return XML root...

Enteprise Library Exception Handling for WCF Fault Contracts - CLIENT SIDE

I have a Windows Service which communicates with WCF services. The WCF services are all fault shielded and generate custom UserFaultContracts and ServiceFaultContracts. No problems there. In the Windows Service I am using EntLib for exception handling and logging. I do not want to try catch for faults try { } catch (FaultException<Us...

Is it possible to aggregate wcf calls in a silverlight client?

I have a silverlight application that is like a portal where user-defined widgets will be calling wcf services. Since these components could be quite chatty I would like to hijack the service calls and have them flow through a single client proxy that could throttle, potentially cache results, etc. So the idea would be to have the disp...

oData RIA PowerPivot Large Message Size

Hi, I was playing with powerpivot to directly load 3 million rows from a sql database and performance is suprisingly good. I tried generating a simple oData service by using vs2010 and silverlight RIA services and access that from powerpivot. Which works with small numbers of rows but blows up on the server if a single method tries to ...

Pass a X509 certificate in WCF without using SSL or encryption

Hi All, Can anyone help me in this? I am calling a internal Web service using the below config file tags <identity> <dns value="DWR"/> </identity> </endpoint> And Here is the behaviour part , <clientCredentials> <!--certificate storage path in the client --> <clientCe...

Send objects with custom attributes via a wcf service.

I just began studying WCF because i need it for a school assignment. But i have a problem when i am trying to send an object with some custom attributes. The object is: [DataContract] public class Person { [DataMember] [Searchable("ID")] public virtual String ID { get; set; } [DataMember] [Se...