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WCF Streaming with result information

I am using a WCF to upload a file to a server. public interface IFileTransferService { [OperationContract] void UploadFile(Stream stream); } The problem here is, that I don't get information on whether the operation was succesful or not. Of course I may get an exception when the server does not respond, but how can the server repo...

Serialization/Deserialization of Parameters - WCF Service Call doesn't work

I have a simple WCF service method: [OperationContract] public SetupGameResult SetupGame(long player1Id, long player2Id, long myPlayerId) { if(player1Id == 0 || player2Id == 0 || myPlayerId == 0) { throw new ArgumentException(); } ... // other code } I call this Service just in one ...

Consuming WCF Rest 4 From ASP . NET

Hey, I am a complete ASP .NET newbie. I've written a set of web services using the WCF 4 Rest Starter Kit. I call everything from within a Flash application but I want to write a quick and dirty admin panel for myself to use which has no need to be written in Flash. I figure it will be faster to get this up and running in ASP. So the q...

Creating MMC Snap-Ins for console application and windows service

Hi guys I need to have a standard management gui ( look and feel ) and lately I've been looking into mmc. Msdn and other free tutorials provides the installation and simple implementation of a snap in. I'm confused right now on how I can integrate it with my production applications( console and windows service ). Do I need to set a com...

Can a WCF data contract contain a WCF operation contract inside it? Why?

I have a data contract say User. It is serializable and goes across the wire. I want an Operation Contract SaveUser(). I can keep SaveUser(User user) in my service contract as an operation contract. But can I keep it inside my data contract itself as its own behavior? Save() should ideally save itself. So as per OO principles, every dat...

nHibernate + wcf + Isession

I have a c# solution with 3 projects - Data, WCF and UI. The first one is a class library that talks to db. It's exposed via the second one, which is of type WCF Service Library - the reason for that is it will be exposed in third project - Asp.net app called UI - as a simple svc pointing to dll. Just to point it out, I'm not using Repo...

Suggestion for WCF books

I am a beginner for WCF and I would like to know which is the best practice book for WCF ...

Host my service in IIS or windows service?

I have a couple of services, where one of them needs to be a singleton service. The other services connect to this singleton service and the singleton service in turn makes calls back in to the instances of the other services. My question: is it safe to move this scenario into IIS so I can make use of the new Windows Server Appfabric fe...

Problem with transferring large data with WCF

Hi i finally created a small upload wcf service. I can transfer small images on my computer, but i tried transferring a mp3 song to have some larger data. It failede with a "400 bad request" exception. I have no clue as to what is going on. I am streaming the data and found alot of resources on the net, but none seem to work, this is wh...

When running mstest against a WCF service, WcfSvcHost fails to run and tests fail. Tests pass when debugged.

Using Visual Studio 2010, I have written a simple WCF service and some integration tests that I want to run against it. I build my proxy for the tests at runtime in code rather than using configuration. My tests pass in debug but not when run! FAIL if run - go Test/Run/Tests in current context ( as the WCF Service it calls has not bee...

Using WCF CloseAsync in silverlight

Is this the right approach for closing connections with WCF in silverlight? ServiceClient client = new ServiceClient(); client.MakeRequestCompleted += (sender, e) => { client.CloseAsync(); //some implementation goes here }; for (int i = 0; i < 1000; i++) ...

WCF Design Approach

In my solution I have a Web application project and a Class library project that contains all the business logic and this also acts as a data access layer as I am using Entity Framework. This means that I have my edmx in this layer itself. I have some 34 classes in this class library project and at an average 6 public methods in each cl...

Raise event when all asynchronous method calls are complete

Hi folks, i have the following issue: In asynchronous context i need to initialize fields of some custom object before i can proceed with other operations on it, so i do: class ContainingObject { private CustomObject _co; SomeMethod() { _co = new CustomObject(); _co.InitObjectAsyncCompleted += (s,e) => DoStuff()...

JSON serialization in WCF - Are object properties ordered alphabetically?

I have created a WCF REST service that returns JSON, but the properties in the objects that are serialized are returned alphabetically. Is there any way I change this? ...

Silverlight application in facebook canvas fails to call WCF service

Basic structure: http://hospero.de/structure.jpg I have a really strange issue with my facebook iframe application. I am developing a facebook card game. Two players can play a card game against each other on facebook. The basic structure is: The silverlight control is hosted inside an ASP.NET Website which is hosted in localhost for...

"404 Not Found" between my jQuery client and WCF SOAP web service

Can anyone spot what is wrong with my code? I'm getting a 404 Not Found on firebug when i use jQuery to call a WCF SOAP service. I'm on Win7 using IIS7. I have the wcf running on a virtual directory application as (http://localhost/csw). I can access the service.svc file with no problem here at this url: (http://localhost/csw/service.sv...

FullCalendar and WCF

I've been trying to get data from a wcf service and into the fullcalendar control. However, ive had no luck and wondered what i was doing wrong. jscript : $('#calendar').fullCalendar({ header: { left: 'prev,next today', center: 'title', right: 'month,basicWeek,basicDay' }, e...

FaultException.Detail coming back empty

I am trying to catch a given FaultException on a WCF client. I basically need to extract a inner description from the fault class so that I can then package it in another exception for the upper layers to do whatever. I've done this successfully a number of time, what makes it different this time is that fault is declared as an array, ...

Silverlight 4, WCF and Relative URI error

I get this error System.UriFormatException [net_uri_BadFormat] Arguments: Debugging resource strings are unavailable. Often the key and arguments provide sufficient information to diagnose the problem. See http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=106663&amp;Version=4.0.50826.0&amp;File=System.dll&amp;Key=net_uri_BadFormat at System.Ur...

Applying XSLT to WCF message

We would like to transform the outgoing XML from a WCF request if certain conditions are met. Is there a way to intercept the XML stream right before it goes over the wire with WCF? I found an approach where you use Message objects and override OnWriteBodyContents method, bu in there you have to create XML by hand and ideally we would li...