wcf

WCF listenBacklog and maxConnections can't be set higher than 10. Why not?

My service works great under low load. But under high load I start to get connection errors. I know about other settings but I am trying to change the listenBacklog parameter in particular for my TCP Buffered binding. If I set listenBacklog="10" I am able to telnet into the port where my WCF service is running. If I change listenBac...

Need help with WCF design

I have been tasked with creating a set of web services. We are a Microsoft shop, so I will be using WCF for this project. There is an interesting design consideration that I haven't been able to figure out a solution for yet. I'll try to explain it with an example: My WCF service exposes a method named Foo(). 10 different users call...

WCF Data Service Exception

Hi, I am working on C#.Net with ADO.NET Dataservice WCF Data Services. I try to update one record to relational table, when I reach context.SetLink() I am getting exception("The context is not currently tracking the entity"). I don't know how to solve this problem. My code is specified below. LogNote dbLogNote =logNote; LogSubSession...

WCF with SSL- not finding localhost

Hi guys, I'm trying to get WCF to use SSL with ANYTHING for FIVE DAYS now. I've gone through countless walkthroughs, generated more certificates than a mail order diploma company, even tried hot fixes. After working with MS dev tools since VB1, I am now considering flipping burgers as a career option. WCF, as far as I can see, is a comp...

WCF throws IOException while read and deserialize object

The application is implemented using WCF and NHibernate The problem arises when you try to retrieve an array of objects in the stream. The error occurs not always and only on certain sites. Service Config <system.serviceModel> <bindings> <basicHttpBinding> <binding name="ServiceHttpBinding" closeTimeout="00:05:00" openTim...

Avoiding GC thrashing with WSE 3.0 MTOM service

For historical reasons, I have some WSE 3.0 web services that I cannot upgrade to WCF on the server side yet (it is also a substantial amount of work to do so). These web services are being used for file transfers from client to server, using MTOM encoding. This can also not be changed in the short term, for reasons of compatibility. Se...

MVC show notification to user when event happens on server.

Hi everyone, i've got a situtation where we have a web site (mvc project), and a wcf service, when service gets message i need to show a notification to user who's on the web site with this message contents. would be glad if you can show me the place where to start! Thank You ! ...

WCF Protocol Exception

I am experiencing real problems with WCF. For no apparent reason I have started getting the following errors when debugging any WCF service in my solution: ProtocolException Occurred Content Type application/soap+xml; charset=utf-8 was sent to a service expecting text/xml; charset=utf-8. The client and service bindings may ...

Calling WCF service with parameters from VBScript

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/944975 I'm trying to use the code from the above stack article, but my WCF service method requires parameters: SaveCheckData int,int,string,string I've tried frigging with the code to incorporate this, but to be honest, I may as well be trying to perform heart surgery. Can anyone shed any light on h...

WCF service consuming passively issued SAML token

What is the best way to pass an existing SAML token from a website already authenticated via a passive STS? We have built an Identity Provider which is issuing passive claims to the website for authentication. We have this working. Now we would like to add some WCF services into the mix - calling them from the context of the already a...

How to set up WCF Data Services with username/password and certificates?

I have a application where I want to connect to a server using WCF DS with username/password. In addition I want each client to also have a certificate (different for each client). How can I solve this in the most simple way? It must be simple to deploy new certificates to the client. ...

Any ideas on a WCF Interceptor for a REST WebGet request to change the Url/Querystring parameters

Does any one know of a way I can intercept a REST Get request inside WCF, so for example I could change the value of any of the querystring parameters. So I need to have some code run, prior to WCF Evaluating the UriTemplate of the WebGet attribute and be able to edit it, before returning the value which it will use to continue processi...

help a .NET developer consume a wcf service using coldfusion

Hi, I am a .NET developer with no coldfusion experience, but I need to write cf code to access a wcf service i've set up. I've got a few WCF services being hosted in IIS 7 with WsHttpBinding, and I'm able to use the services fine by adding service references to a .NET client and using client classes. It is very straightforward for a ....

Silverlight WCF netTcpBinding problem

Trying to call a WCF with a netTcpBinding via Silverlight, I am getting the error: "TCP error code 10013: An attempt was made to access a socket in a way forbidden by its access permissions.. This could be due to attempting to access a service in a cross-domain way while the service is not configured for cross-domain access. You may nee...

Extending timeout and message size in WCF service generated by Biztalk 2006 R2

Hi, I'm generating WCF service using Biztalk. The code I get is this: <system.serviceModel> <behaviors> <serviceBehaviors> <behavior name="ServiceBehaviorConfiguration"> <serviceDebug httpHelpPageEnabled="true" httpsHelpPageEnabled="false" includeExceptionDetailInFaults="false" /> <serviceMetadat...

How can a client try to reconnect to a server after a first failed try with WCF?

Hey guys, I'm using a client - server app. When a client starts, he gets a login-screen. When the server is not up yet, the call to the server will throw an exception which i catch (EndpointNotFoundException). I show a messagebox telling the user the server is offline. When he tries to reconnect again, it will throw another exception (C...

WCF DataContractSerializer Behavior

I'm seeing some unusual behavior when using the DataContractSerializer. I have defined a message contract like so: namespace MyNamespace.DataContracts { [MessageContract(WrapperName = "order", WrapperNamespace = @"http://example.com/v1/order")] public class MyOrder { [MessageBodyMember(Namespace = @"http://example.com/v1/order", Ord...

What is Dublin and how does it relate to WCF?

Going through some WCF hosting questions on StackOverflow, I've seen Dublin mentioned a few times as a technology from Microsoft that is forthcoming. It's only alluded to and not actually defined though. Can someone give me a good explanation of what Dublin is? Also, what is its release status and is it going by a different name now? (H...

C# Inheriting DataContract Derived Types

I've given a fair read through msdn:datacontracts and I cannot find a out why the following does not work. So what is wrong here? Why isn't ExtendedCanadianAddress recognized by the datacontract serializer? Type 'XYZ.ExtendedCanadianAddress' with data contract name 'CanadianAddress:http://tempuri.org/Common/Types' is not expected. Add ...

WCF circular references in data contract

I have a WCF contract with circular references. For a simple parent-child relationship, the solution is pretty simple with .NET 3.5SP1 or greater - the IsReference property of a DataContract (this page has a good explanation). However, my relationships are three levels deep: grandparent <-> parent <-> child. A "grandparent" has many "pa...