That’s been a big question surrounding services since their inception. SOA done successfully is SOA planned to the extent you’re talking about. Having said that, I’ve always leaned more toward splitting services out, but using them in a composite manner. That is, several endpoints when you have several contracts, but most of them are only … Read more
According to Microsoft documentation: Do not use the asynchronous “await” pattern within a OperationContextScope block. When the continuation occurs, it may run on a different thread and OperationContextScope is thread specific. If you need to call “await” for an async call, use it outside of the OperationContextScope block. So the simplest proper solution is: Task<ResponseType> … Read more
You need a metadata endpoint for your service, here`s an example. <services> <service name=”MyService” behaviorConfiguration=”MEX”> <endpoint address=”http://localhost:8000/MEX” binding=”mexHttpBinding” contract=”IMetadataExchange” /> </service> </services> <behaviors> <serviceBehaviors> <behavior name=”MEX”> <serviceMetadata/> </behavior> </serviceBehaviors> </behaviors>
The following steps are a guide to get you started: 1) Firstly, you need a Root Authority to generate your client and server certificates. You can either use an external Authority Provider (e.g. Verisign) or you can generate your own using something like Microsoft Certificate Server. To generate a development Root Authority certificate you can … Read more
The key decision is whether or not to make the WCF service conform to the socket client or whether to make the socket client conform to the WCF service. It will be simplest to attempt to conform to the WCF service, rather than trying to implement something custom within WCF, which is never easy. At … Read more
A ServiceHost basically provides you everything you need to host a WCF service in a non-IIS or WAS setting. A common place for a ServiceHost would be in a console app or Windows service. See the example code from MSDN for how to setup a ServiceHost in a console app.
It is unfortunate that this doesn’t work and we will see about getting a fix out in a future release. In the mean time, there is a way to reapply the context to the current thread so that you don’t have to pass the object around: public async Task<double> Add(double n1, double n2) { OperationContext … Read more
To view the message contents you must add a source for System.ServiceModel.MessageLogging in your configuration file. The message tab in the Trace Viewer will show the full message for a particular service call. Here is a sample configuration file: <configuration> … <system.diagnostics> <sources> <source name=”System.ServiceModel” switchValue=”All” propagateActivity=”true”> <listeners> <add name=”traceListener” /> </listeners> </source> <source name=”System.ServiceModel.MessageLogging” … Read more
I have asked around and it seems that [IgnoreDataMember] is from the days when everything was serialised and you had to dictate what should be ignored (I believe in .Net 2). Then they changed it to the reverse and you had to explicitly state what SHOULD be serialised. Actually that’s not quite true; IIRC it … Read more
You’re setting the security to transport mode, which is HTTPS, with this line: wb.Security.Mode = WebHttpSecurityMode.Transport; Is the value of baseAddress an HTTP or HTTPS address?