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 ...

WCF (Windows Communication Foundation) is a secure, reliable, and scalable messaging platform that can be used to build Web services in .Net. It provides a unified programming model for developing ...

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 ...

Asynchronous services are easier to implement with support of the await and async keywords in WCF 4.5. We look at that, as well as contract-first development. There are performance benefits to using ...

In early March I submitted a media inquiry to Microsoft, asking about the No. 1 (in terms of votes) item on the Developer Community site for Visual Studio and the subject of much developer discussion: ...