WCF Web Service Reference connected services provider is now part of Visual Studio since Visual Studio 2017. Instructions can be found in the [usage guide](https://go ...

description: Learn how to create a service that exposes a web endpoint in WCF. Web endpoints send data by using XML or JSON. There is no SOAP envelope. # How to: Create a Basic WCF Web HTTP Service ...

Like Access, WCF makes it awfully easy for developers to slap a Web service front-end on anything. The problem is that you end up with a "virtual junk drawer of services," to quote Nayaki Nayyar, ...

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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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WCF (Windows Communication Foundation) is a secure, reliable, and scalable messaging platform that can be used to build Web services in .Net. It provides a unified programming model for developing ...

Peter Vogel continues his exploration of WCF 4.5's support for WebSockets by writing the code to accept data from the client and then return data to the client whenever that data becomes available. In ...