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I’ve got WCF Now What? Tech Valley Code Camp 2008 Andrew Badera andrew@badera.us What is WCF? Formerly “Indigo” ASMX, WSE Remoting, Enterprise Plumbing – Lowy What can WCF do for me? Serve variety of client platforms Expose legacy services Support WS-* protocols ABCs – Resnick, Crane, Bowen Address Binding Contract Hosting Windows Service Dedicated app IIS Windows Activation Service Testing WCF Test Client SoapUI / Exceptions Big topic! SOAP fault – reason and code ASMX as WCF? Yes! Bibliography Lowy: Programming WCF Resnick, Crane, Bowen: Essential Windows Communication Foundation For more information Links and code available at:http://andrew.badera.us/ Nicholas Allens’ Indigo Blog MSDN Service Station QA Go! Hello! Welcome to Tech Valley Code Camp 2008, and I’ve Got WCF – Now What? I’d like to preface this discussion by noting that this is my first Code Camp, I’m new to WCF, and this is the first presentation of this nature I’ve ever given. I hope you’ll be kind, I hope you’ll be forgiving, and I hope that if you feel the need to throw anything, it’s not too sharp or heavy. * Windows Communication Framework – what the HECK does that mean? WCF, WPF, WF, Microsoft’s merry-go-round of acronyms seems to have experienced exponential growth with the releases of 3.0 and 3.5. Is it all just marketing hype? Fortunately, no! WCF was first released in 3.0, and lives in its most current form in 3.5. WCF puts a wide swath of .NET service technologies all under the same roof. Windows Communication Framework utilizes declarative and configuration-driven programming to enable you to define multiple endpoints against the same code. In a lot of ways, it is very much a hybrid of legacy ASMX, WSE, Web Service Enhancements and remoting all in one. Juval Lowy very rightly describes WCF as “plumbing,” and as “an SDK for developing and deploying services on Windows.” * WCF allows you to expose code, through multiple “endpoints,” to a variety of clients, while supp