Windows Communication Foundation has steadily evolved to better support SOA and Web services. Here's how to get the most out of your WCF-based services architecture. If you want to exploit ...

Until REST APIs came along, SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) was the de facto standard protocol on which web services were based. When working in ASP.Net Core, you might well encounter the need to ...

Hi all.<BR><BR>I thought consuming a WCF service (named pipe) hosted in a Windows service on the Web server (2k3) would be a good idea. It worked well enough when debugging in VS2008, but there my ...

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Way, way back in the early days of .NET and the abortive Windows Longhorn project, one of the underlying technologies was a set of standards that built on the nascent web services model: WS-* and SOAP ...

While Windows Communication Foundation 4.5 has lots of little improvements, the ASP.NET Web API is a very big change. You'll probably end up taking advantage of both, so here's what's in the pipeline ...

Sending credentials automatically to Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) Web Service can make your client application more dynamic. Transport security (HTTPS) is used in WCF projects for ...

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