Windows Communication Foundation

(WCF) - Part 2

Jaliya UdagedaraMCPD

http://www.jaliyaudagedara.blogspot.com/

What are we going to discuss today?• The Basic Composition of a WCF Application

• The ABC's of WCF

The Basic Composition of a WCF Application

• WCF Service assembly

• WCF service host

• WCF client

The ABC's of WCF

• Address

• Binding

• Contract

Address

WhereBinding

HowContract

What

Endpoint

The ABC's of WCF : Address

• Where to find the service

http://ravana:3333/myservice.svc/basic

Scheme: http:

Machine: ravana

Port (optional): 3333

Path: /myservice.svc/basic

The ABC's of WCF : Binding

• Defines the Transport protocol, Encoding and

Security for communication.

• Variety binding types are available out of the box

under WCF programming model.

• basicHttpBinding

• wsHttpBinding

• netTCPBinding

The ABC's of WCF : Contract

• Describes what the service does.

• Service Contracts

• ServiceContract - Defines the Interface.

• OperationContract - Defines the methods inside

Interface.

• Data Contracts

• DataContract - Used to define the class

• DataMember - Used to define the properties.

• Fault Contracts

• Message Contracts

DEMO

Thank You!