Matlus
Internet Technology & Software Engineering

Categorized Under: WCF

WCF 4.0 Getting Started

In this post we'll be looking at build a simple WCF client and WCF service application. You'll be up and running in no time guaranteed. In WCF 4.0 (in contrast to earlier versions), things have gotten a lot easier in as far a configuration is concerned. WCF 4.0 stresses convention over configuration. So we'll first get our client and service up and running using conventions (no configuration at all) and then we'll take a look at how we would configure things if we need to. But rather than using the config file we'll programmatically configure things[...]

svcTraceViewer - Debugging WCF Sevices

This is a quick post about Debugging WCF Services and using svcTraceViewer. I'm writing this because I spent over half an hour trying to figure out what was wrong with one of my WCF services and then another half hour trying to figure out where to find svcTraceViewer. Once I figured out all of this the error happened to be really simple (the class I was trying to serialize was not marked with the attribute! If I were doing the same thing in ASP.NET or Quartz I would have seen the exception the first time and fixed it in the next second[...]