Tag Archives: SOAP

WCF Is Dead and Web API Is Dying – Long Live MVC 6!

Posted on January 6, 2016 by Tony Sneed

The time has come to start saying goodbye to Windows Communication Foundation (WCF).  Yes, there are plenty of WCF apps in the wild — and I’ve built a number of them.  But when it comes to selecting a web services … Continue reading →

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Building Scalable and Secure WCF Services

Posted on June 18, 2012 by Tony Sneed

The key to building scalable WCF services is to eliminate binding configurations that could result in server affinity.  For this reason you should avoid bindings that establish a session with the service, such as NetTcpBinding or WsHttpBinding with secure conversation … Continue reading →

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Simple WCF SOAP-REST Multi-Project Template

Posted on June 11, 2012 by Tony Sneed

Download the source code for this post. I did it again: another multi-project Visual Studio template – this time for a simple WCF service that exposes both SOAP and REST endpoints.  My other REST and SOAP templates are intended as … Continue reading →

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WCF SOAP and REST Multi-Project Visual Studio Templates

Posted on June 10, 2012 by Tony Sneed

Download the code for this post. Last year I published a REST Multi-Project Visual Studio Template on the Visual Studio Extensions Gallery, available for download from the Tools-Manage Extensions menu from within Visual Studio 2010. What I like about this … Continue reading →

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