wcf

Some advice on implementing services on a local LAN. WCF vs .Net Remoting

Hi, I am designing a resource access layer that will sit on a database server on a LAN consisting of 5 workstations and 7 servers. My intention for the resource access layer is to expose a set of well defined C# methods to any C# (.Net 3.5) client on the LAN, and allow the client to access data stored in the DBMS without having any know...

Encoding Conversion problem

Hi all, I've got a little problem changing the ecoding of a string. Actually I read from a DB strings that are encoded using the codepage 850 and I have to prepare them in order to be suitable for an interoperable WCF service. From the DB I read characters \x10 and \x11 (triangular shapes) and i want to convert them to the Unicode for...

How to add an attribute to a serialized XML node?

Assume I have a C# class like this: [XmlRoot("floors")] public class FloorCollection { [XmlElement("floor")] public Floor[] Floors { get; set; } } And I want to serialize it and send to a REST API using WCF. But before sending I need adding an attribute to the floors node in this way: <floors type="array">...</floors> Any id...

WCF Forms Based Authentication Via Web App - Passing Credentials

I have a simple web service whereby the security is handled via forms based authentication. WCFTestService.ServiceClient myService = new WCFTestService.ServiceClient(); myService.ClientCredentials.UserName.UserName = "user"; myService.ClientCredentials.UserName.Password = "secret"; lblResult.Text = myService.GetData(1231); myS...

ASP.NET Logging onto web service using username and password the first time only

The first time I log onto my webservice I want to use FormsAuthentication e.g. myService.ClientCredentials.UserName.UserName = "name"; myService.ClientCredentials.UserName.Password = "password"; but once a user has logged onto my web app I dont want to have to know about his password so I would like to be able to connect to the webser...

WCF - How to Increase Message Size Quota

I have a WCF Service which returns 1000 records from database to the client. I have a ASP.NET WCF client - ( i have added service reference in asp.net web application project to consume WCF). I get the following message when i run the client application - The maximum message size quota for incoming messages (65536) has been exceede...

WCF with Multiple Endpoints accessing WSDL?

Should the WSDl only be accessible via the ".svc?wsdl" ? I have a service that has multiple endpoints. For example (in the web.config): <services> <service behaviorConfiguration="MyServiceTypeBehavior" name="WcfService1.Service"> <endpoint binding="wsHttpBinding" bindingConfiguration="ws1" name="ws1" contract="WcfService1.IMy...

Silverlight WCF Authentication (Help going from WPF to Silverlight)

I have an existing working WPF Application in which I have implemented my own custom authentication to a backend WCF service. When I access this service from WPF, setup the ServiceProxy as follows: proxy.ClientCredentials.UserName.UserName = "test"; proxy.ClientCredentials.UserName.Password = "pass"; and because I'm using HTTPS the ui...

Web Service Out of Memory Exception while filling ADO.Net DataSet

1) ClientApp makes async call to ASP.Net 2.0 WebService 2) Web service calls SQL Server 2005 stored procedure 3) Stored procedure returns data output, 150MB table Out of Memory Exception is thrown by DataAdapter.Fill(...) while trying to allocate more memory for new rows. IIS Application Pool does not have any Max Memory restrictions o...

WCF ServiceHost access rights

I get the following error when going through the WCF tutorial. HTTP could not register URL http://+:8000/ServiceModelSamples/Service/. Your process does not have access rights to this namespace (see http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=70353 for details). Is this something caused by a restriction on Windows 7? ...

cancel stream request from WCF server to client

Hi, I posted about stream request here [wcf-chunk-data-with-stream]:http://stackoverflow.com/questions/853448/wcf-chunk-data-with-stream I solved that task but now when i close request in client part server continue to send data. is it possible to cancel stream request from WCF server to client? ...

Web service request authentication

We're being really stuck here so I decided to ask your help. Yesterday I've been asked to help to consume a web service, got the URL to the WSDL, and the user credentials to use. I've never really had anything to do with web services, but having a general idea about them and seeing a few examples I thought it can't be that bad. Obviousl...

WcfTestClient "The client was unable to retrieve service metadata ..."

I get this error when I attempt to run the wcftestclient application. What is odd that this happens when I load the program; before the UI to choose which service to connect to is loaded. I presume it's "helpfully" remembering the last service to which I connected, unfortunately this is no longer running and I have no idea what it coul...

add a web service reference to a console app

Im creating a simple web service in a console app. (PersonService) this is my Program.cs below im trying to add a service reference to a different console app (PersonClient) how can i do this? i tried adding it by right clicking, add service reference, pointing to the refernce etc... but it wont work. [DataContract] pu...

Adding service references to multiple WCF services that shared classes

I'm attempting to split up my WCF web services into a few services instead of 1 giant service. But the Visual Studio (Silverlight client) duplicates the common classes shared by both services. Here is a simple example to illustrate my problem. In this example there are two services. Both return the type "Person". By default VS will ...

Connection string in WCF with LINQ, C#, VS2008

I added a DBML file with the appropriate connection string and valid credentials. I logged of my VPN hosting the SQL server and I wanted to test my WCF service in terms of what errors would be raised if it could not find the DB. public List<Users> GetName(strinng UserEmail) { var dbResult = from u in Users where u.em...

Silverlight asp.net WCF authentication 2.0

Can anyone provide some links to good information on setting up Silverlight 2.0 to authenticate to a WCF Service through ASP.NET Forms Authentication? ...

WCF client getting a TimeoutException (and I AM closing my connections)

Here's the thing... I've been working on this issue for a long time now with no luck I have a WCF service hosted on IIS (I also tried in a console host and I get the same behavior) which I call thru my scvutil created proxy, and the service fails to respond after a few (very few calls). But, here are a few clues: 1- It only happens on ...

iPhone / .NET WCF Interoperability

I'm architecting a .NET "web service" and an iPhone application that will consume these services. I'm curious if there are any best practices for architecting the protocol for exchanging data between the two. SOAP-based web services feel too heavy to me for an iPhone app. Perhaps REST, JSON, POX instead? Certainly the specifics of th...

Unloading a data reference in Entity Framework

Hi, Currently I am struggling with a Entity Framework issue. I have a wcf service that sits on top of the ef framework, and allows queries to the framework. At some point the user is able to request a file from the framework. The files are referenced by solution entries, so when you request a file from a solution, the reference is lo...