In my earlier blog I wrote about Contracts and Service Contract. Please refer this link Service Contract in WCF Operation Contract Operation Contracts are nothing but the functions or methods exposed to the client which may or may not return to perform some logic at server end. A simple Operation Contract with Service Contract will…

Service Contract in WCF Contracts in WCF are very important. Contracts are responsible for how to communicate, what protocol to use and what message to send. Following contracts available in WCF: Service Contract Operation Contract Data Contract Message Contract Fault Contract We will see all contract one by one with the help of practical implementation…

As we all know that IIS 6 supports HTTP protocol only. Windows Process Activation Service (WAS) supports non-http protocols in IIS. So, WAS helps WCF service to host with HTTP and NO-HTTP protocols such as net.tcp. Once you changed binding in the config file to netTcpBinding Your service will throw this error. Don’t worry there…

As we know WCF supports various hosting options. Self Hosting is one of them. What is Self Hosting? WCF allows hosting a service in an application such as Console Application. Create a Console Application Project to host a WCF Service. Add WCF Service project Reference in this Console Application. Delete existing App.config file. Add new…

If you are new to WCF services then please read my earlier blogs. Go through with this link – WCF Tutorial step by step.WCF supports a various way to host a service. In this blog, I will explain about Hosting a WCF Service in IIS. How to host WCF service in IIS? Step 1: Create…