Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), part of the .NET Framework, provides the first unified programming model for rapidly building service-oriented applications. It enables the development of secure, reliable, transacted services that interoperate with current Microsoft investments and non-Microsoft platforms.
With the .NET Framework 3.5 release, WCF added support for building REST style services. REST, an architectural style for building distributed hypermedia driven applications, involves building resource-oriented services by defining resources that implement uniform interfaces using standard HTTP …

Before you read this post, I would like to admit that the content of this blog is not written by me but I copy it from many resources on internet. I always ask (review) myself why Microsoft must invent WCF Service. What are the advantages of WCF in compare to web services? I found many answers on internet and would like to archive them for myself. The source of these information I insert at the …

Windows Phone OS is being developed and I do not know which protocol Microsoft use to allow users and developers to transfer data between PC and phone, may be USB, Wifi, Bluetooth, etc … Within these protocols I prefer using protocol based on IP therefore today I would like to write a small demonstration which lets me download/upload file from PC to phone/from phone to PC.
The Demo source code consists of 2 projects :
- The …

Today I would like a post about deploying WCF in IIS to help you avoiding nightmare from error given back by IIS 7 during installation. In the end of this post, you can host a wcf service in your localhost and call it like following
1. Install IIS 7 on your computer. Control Panel –> Programs and Features –> Turn Windows features on or off –> Navigate to “Internet Information Services” –> Select these options, then …

Today when I play around with development in Windows Phone 7. I would like to check if I can access WCF REST Service which I discussed before in this post http://hintdesk.com/wcf-silverlight-access-wcf-rest-services-with-silverlight/ . To start with the development in Windows Phone 7 you need to download set of development tools here http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=2338b5d1-79d8-46af-b828-380b0f854203&displaylang=en . This set contains of
- Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone CTP
- Windows Phone Emulator CTP
- Silverlight for Windows Phone CTP
- XNA 4.0 …

As I discussed in my previous blogs I am developing a small tool for transferring files between computers in LAN. I decided to use WCF as my main technology in this application. During my developing I discovered that a data member whose type is a generic list, was changed when WCF service is exposed to client. The type was changed from a list to an array.
We pay attention to the data member “Files” whose type …

During my developing my tool for file transferring with TCP protocol in WCF. I met an annoyed error saying:
Metadata contains a reference that cannot be resolved: ‘net.tcp://localhost:7633/ClientTransferring/mex’.
Could not connect to net.tcp://localhost:7633/ClientTransferring/mex. The connection attempt lasted for a time span of 00:00:02.0117187. TCP error code 10061: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it 127.0.0.1:7633.
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it 127.0.0.1:7633
If the service is defined in …