WCF Reliable Sessions, as defined by the WS-ReliableMessaging protocol, assures that SOAP messages don’t get lost, duplicated and/or re-ordered. It also prevents transport level errors (e.g. dropped connection). The reliability is at the SOAP message level, not at the transport level like TCP. More…
By default, when an unhandled exception occurs in a WCF service, the service sends a SOAP Fault message across the wire to the client. The fault message normally contains no specific information as of why a certain operation failed. More…
Representational State Transfer (REST) is a Resource Oriented Architecture (ROA) style based on the existing design of HTTP. We call resources instead of operations (as we do with SOAP). REST has a hypertext driven API with a predefined set of operations (GET, PUT, POST, or DELETE) for each uri. More…
In the previous post we moved the config code into a App.config file. Now let’s configure the bindings for the EchoService. A WCF binding for a Service Endpoint, combines the transport protocol (MSMQ, HTTP, TCP…), message format (JSON, XML, MTOM…) and message protocol (none, WS, SOAP…). More…