Tag Archives: WCF

Some time ago I wrote a post about how to create REST clients using WCF and taking advantage of its extensibility to obtain a type safe endpoint. My approach implied create a bunch of WCF behaviors and other extensions that intercepts the messages and customize the representation over the wire. Now with .NET 3.5 the … more

In the last weeks I faced a real world example of an ASMX to WCF migration. The existing services has been relying in many of the features available in ASMX, and a complete rewrite would not be an option. Kenny Wolf describes in a post how to reuse an implementation of an ASMX Web Service, … more

The most remarkable thing in WCF is its extensibility. The Indigo team did a really great work providing hooks almost everywhere, that allows to customize all behaviors in every step of the communication framework. In this example I created a client behavior that communicates with a REST/POX service. Clemens Vasters have an excelent series of … more

WCF can be the right technology for developing rich client connected applications, that interacts with a server. It can be through web services or just plain and binary protocols, but the most common scenarios will require the client authenticates to the server before can start using it. If integrated authentication is possible, that would be … more