WCF (Windows Communication Foundation) is a secure, reliable, and scalable messaging platform for developing services in .Net. This is the second part in the series of articles on WCF best practices.

Until REST APIs came along, SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) was the de facto standard protocol on which web services were based. When working in ASP.Net Core, you might well encounter the need to ...

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Asynchronous services are easier to implement with support of the await and async keywords in WCF 4.5. We look at that, as well as contract-first development. There are performance benefits to using ...

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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 ...