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 ...

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I'm having a little-bit of confusion properly understanding how WCF services generate there XML (or JSON) payload for POST RESTful services. I have such a service that I wrote, and depending on the ...

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 ...

In this month's article in the print edition of Visual Studio magazine (WCF and Service Oriented Architectures), I looked at the major components of a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and showed ...

When designing the service layer in your applications the choice of the technology to be used in the service layer depends on many factors. In this article, I will present a discussion on when and how ...