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Recent update: 2008-3-21

Exception when sending larger amount of Data

5701 byte By duke at 2008-3-7
Hi.My Services fail when they transmit arrays larger than an certain size.The size seams to be independent to the binding used.The exception thrown is usually: Unhandled Exception: System.ServiceModel.CommunicationException: The server did not provide a meaningful reply; this might be caused by ...

What is the equavilent of ServiceContract(FormatMode ...) in Beta 2?

268 byte By hyan at 2008-3-6
In beta 1, ServiceContract attribute had a parameter called FormatMode which we can use to specify a different formatter. The parameter is gone in Beta 2. Does any one know how should I specify that I want to use XmlSerilizer instead of XmlFormatter in beta 2? Thanks.

InfoCard: ADFS

506 byte By pierreg at 2008-3-5
Reading the InfoCard Guide to Integrating with InfoCard I was asking myself if the ADFS can be considered (and how) an Identity Provider.Any thought ...

Is MSMQ broken?

4193 byte By DavidL1 at 2008-3-3
The following simple example doesn't work properly. It was built using VStudio 2005 and both the machines involved have WinFX Nov CTP installed. It appears that MessageQueue.Receive only works correctly with a queue on the local machine. This also prevents ServiceHost from working correctly ...

DataContract and DateTime

1218 byte By IdoSamuelson at 2008-3-1
Hi all, I declared the following DataContract and ServiceContacte: [DataContract(Namespace = "Samuelson")] public class MyData { [DataMember] public string Name; [DataMember] public int? ID; [DataMember] public DateTime StartDate; } [ServiceContract (Namespace="Samuelson")] public interface ...

General security question on peer channel usage

1586 byte By MichaelLatta at 2008-2-28
This is a bit general, but applies to my use of PeerChannel. I am still pretty new to the .Net environment.Given that there are 2 or more pieces of software talking to each other that have no reason to trust each other: how to establish that trust? Any data on a local machine can be assumed to ...

What happened to ServiceHost.Throttle

227 byte By DavidL1 at 2008-2-27
The title says it all really. The ServiceHost generic used to have a property named Throttle which allowed setting of no. of concurrent threads and so on, but this has now disappeared/moved. Anyone know where it went? David

Change to MSMQ URIs

731 byte By DavidL1 at 2008-2-26
Hope someone can help with this. There appears to have been a change in the URIs required for MSMQ binding in the most recent WinFX release. I used to use "net.msmq://bleuchamp/batchjobconfirmation" in my app, but now this produces an exception"The provided URI scheme 'net.msmq' is invalid; ...

SQL Server 2005 and WCF?

244 byte By Mr.SOAPitStop at 2008-2-25
I've recently been digging into the features being made available within SQL Server 2005 for HTTP procedure invocation. My question is a simple one. What if anything is planned for WCF and SQL Server 2005 integration? - Mr. SOAPitStop

A Collection of My Thoughts on WCF

623 byte By Mr.SOAPitStop at 2008-2-24
To anyone interested I just published part 1 of a 2 part series on WCF on Active Software Professional's website. I have done my best to focus on the service-oriented capabilities and value above and beyond ASMX alone.The example code included is not really all that interesting, it is just a ...

TcpTransport and SSL

218 byte By MichaelZill at 2008-2-23
I'm looking for a solution to tunnel communication through SSL. I need streaming support and binary encoding. Is there a way of using TcpTransport or do I need to develop my own transport? Thanks, Michael

Change to Peer binding for Nov CTP problems

750 byte By MichaelLatta at 2008-2-22
I am getting the following exception message when attempting to create a DuplexChannel for a P2P connection. Any suggestions on what to look at? This code worked under Sept CTP. Then I had to modify it for Nov CTP. The handling of ChannelFactory has changed, as has the "configurationName" ...

VS 2005 Express & Indigo

128 byte By IvanBudiscak at 2008-2-22
Hi! What do I need to build Indigo services with Visual Web Developer 2005 Express edition released on November 7th? Thnx.

Deadlocks using duplex contracts

774 byte By MikeHackett at 2008-2-21
We have found that we get deadlocks if we have a duplex contract that mixes OneWay calls with normal calls. In the following duplex contract, if the service calls UpdateData() while the client is in the middle of a call to GetData(), both client and server will hang.Is it legal to mix OneWay ...

Generating proxy with svcutil

302 byte By Honey at 2008-2-20
Hi guys after installing vs2005 and then trying to build a service proxy I get this message. svcutil is not recognised as an internal or external command.Is anything wrong with my installation ? Please let me know asap cos i am stuck in this project unless i can build these service ...

ProtocolException

2933 byte By IvoLeit?o at 2008-2-19
Hi i'm getting an exception running a simple ping service that i have developed that i cannot understand. It's strange because it was running 2 days ago then i have changed some things in iis and it stopped running. What it's worst is that everything stopped running, even the samples and ...

Method not allowed running a simple indigo service

10223 byte By IvoLeit?o at 2008-2-18
I'm using Visual Studio .Net 2005 Beta 2 and the September CTP of WinFx to develop some samples using the WCF technology. I've built a simple ping service, and i'm hosting it in the cassini web server included in visual studio. I'm consuming the service from a simple console ...

Method not allowed running a simple indigo service (Solved)

10223 byte By IvoLeit?o at 2008-2-17
I'm using Visual Studio .Net 2005 Beta 2 and the September CTP of WinFx to develop some samples using the WCF technology. I've built a simple ping service, and i'm hosting it in the cassini web server included in visual studio. I'm consuming the service from a simple console ...

ServiceHost Implementation has changed in WinFX Sept CTP 2005

155 byte By nav13 at 2008-2-16
ServiceHost Implementation has changed in WinFX Sept CTP 2005. It is no longer a Generic class. Does any one know reason behind that? Thanks, Navneet

Concurrency/Throtting WCF Samples (Sept CTP WinFX )

198 byte By bionicman at 2008-2-15
I'm seeing the following error when trying to run these samples. ObjectDisposedException: {"Cannot access a disposed object.\r\nObject name: 'System.ServiceModel.Channels.ServiceChannel'."}

Design Surface for Indigo config files ?

471 byte By JuliasW at 2008-2-15
Ok so we have Design surface for Winforms, ASp pages, Avalon(WPF) and Windows Workflow (WWF) - the later of which generate XAML beside files. It would be nice if we had similiar Drag/Drop and view of the XML used in App.config and Web.config files to set up WCF services. I know we have the ...

Loosely Coupled Events

179 byte By JonasE at 2008-2-15
What's the equivalence to COM+ Events in WCF? I would like consumers to be able to subscribe to datagrams from my service in a loosely coupled fasion like COM+ Events. /Jonas

The system.messageBus namespace has been removed from WCF?

67 byte By sz2080 at 2008-2-15
I see some aricles about system.MessageBus, but can't find it now.

WCF not working on Windows 2003 IIS

835 byte By serras at 2008-2-15
Hi, I downloaded the latest September CTP WinFX Runtime Components and WinFX SDK, and tried to run an Indigo simple sample. However, when I use IIS I receive 404 error when browsing to the service.svc file. I found that I needed to do: * aspnet_regiis -i* xws_reg -i * cscript InstallIndigo.js ...

Collections, [DataContract] and svcutil

2822 byte By GalenMurdock at 2008-2-14
I'm trying to understand the best way to pass strongly-typed collections between an Indigo service and client. I have the following test DataContract: [DataContract] public class Book { [DataMember] public string Title; [DataMember] public string ISBN; } [DataContract] ...

Indigo + GridView + Dataset interoperability

358 byte By IvoLeit?o at 2008-2-14
Hi ! I would like to build a indigo service that returns a list with some data, and to consume this service in a asp.net 2.0 application (bind it to a gridview). I'm well aware of the problems concerning the return of a dataset from the perpective of interoperability and i would like to known ...

[DataMember] changes in September 2005 CTP

318 byte By GalenMurdock at 2008-2-13
From looking at the September 2005 CTP docs, it would seem that DataMemberAttribute.IsOptional has been renamed to IsRequired and that the DataMemberAttribute.VersionAdded has been renamed to Order. Is the latter correct?-- Galen Galen Earl MurdockVeracity Solutions, Inc.Principal Software ...

Where is the svcTraceViewer?

671 byte By Mr.SOAPitStop at 2008-2-13
I hope this isn't a dumb question but I put together a sample service and I was adding in the diagnostics to play around with the Trace Viewer that Pallmann mentions in his book (Programming "Indigo") and I can't find the freaking thing. Is this still around? I'm not using the latest CTP ...

Configuring the "UsernameForCertificate" authentication mode

2126 byte By Youcef at 2008-2-12
I want to write a WCF client that authenticates itself to a WCF service using the "UsernameForCertificate" authentication mode (a very simple scenario!). However, I'm having trouble finding the right configuration settings to use for the client and the service. I'm using the September CTP ...

design question regarding generated proxy classes/DataContracts

1520 byte By b.schwehn at 2008-2-11
Hello all, I have a design question not neccessarily directly related to Indigo: Let's say I have two services dealing with Customers, both will use a (or the same) Customer class as arguments in a servicemethod like == [Serializable] [DataContract] public class Customer{ private int _id; ...

Configuring the "UsernameForCertificate" authentication mode

2127 byte By Youcef at 2008-2-10
I want to write a WCF client that authenticates itself to a WCF service using the "UsernameForCertificate" authentication mode (a very simple scenario!). However, I'm having trouble finding the right configuration settings to use for the client and the service. I'm using the September CTP ...

design question regarding generated proxy classes/DataContracts

1526 byte By b.schwehn at 2008-2-10
Hello all, I have a design question not neccessarily directly related to Indigo: Let's say I have two services dealing with Customers, both will use a (or the same) Customer class as arguments in a servicemethod like == [Serializable] [DataContract] public class Customer{ private int _id; ...

scvutil exclude type

230 byte By duke at 2008-2-8
How is the syntax for excluding types with scvutil? <font face="Courier New">svcutil.exe http://localhost/Service /et:namespace.class</font> doesn′t work. And how do you exclude more than one type? Thanks

Can't find IIS in Build 5231

181 byte By canislupus at 2008-2-8
Hello, maybe this is a dumb question, but I am not able to find IIS 7.0 in build 5231 of vista. Is it not part of the build? Is there any way to install it? Thank you

Indigo + GridView + Dataset interoperability

359 byte By IvoLeit?o at 2008-2-7
Hi ! I would like to build a indigo service that returns a list with some data, and to consume this service in a asp.net 2.0 application (bind it to a gridview). I'm well aware of the problems concerning the return of a dataset from the perpective of interoperability and i would like to known ...

Design Surface for Indigo config files ?

472 byte By JuliasW at 2008-2-7
Ok so we have Design surface for Winforms, ASp pages, Avalon(WPF) and Windows Workflow (WWF) - the later of which generate XAML beside files. It would be nice if we had similiar Drag/Drop and view of the XML used in App.config and Web.config files to set up WCF services. I know we have the ...

WCF not working on Windows 2003 IIS

836 byte By serras at 2008-2-7
Hi, I downloaded the latest September CTP WinFX Runtime Components and WinFX SDK, and tried to run an Indigo simple sample. However, when I use IIS I receive 404 error when browsing to the service.svc file. I found that I needed to do: * aspnet_regiis -i* xws_reg -i * cscript InstallIndigo.js ...

[DataMember] changes in September 2005 CTP

319 byte By GalenMurdock at 2008-2-7
From looking at the September 2005 CTP docs, it would seem that DataMemberAttribute.IsOptional has been renamed to IsRequired and that the DataMemberAttribute.VersionAdded has been renamed to Order. Is the latter correct?-- Galen Galen Earl MurdockVeracity Solutions, Inc.Principal Software ...

Collections, [DataContract] and svcutil

2828 byte By GalenMurdock at 2008-2-6
I'm trying to understand the best way to pass strongly-typed collections between an Indigo service and client. I have the following test DataContract: [DataContract] public class Book { [DataMember] public string Title; [DataMember] public string ISBN; } [DataContract] ...

Concurrency/Throtting WCF Samples (Sept CTP WinFX )

202 byte By bionicman at 2008-2-6
I'm seeing the following error when trying to run these samples. ObjectDisposedException: {"Cannot access a disposed object.\r\nObject name: 'System.ServiceModel.Channels.ServiceChannel'."}

could not find svcutil.exe in September CTP

234 byte By hyan at 2008-2-5
I installed September CTP but could not find svcutil.exe or svcconfig.exe. Have their names changed? What are the utils using to generate client proxy? Plus, which directory is WCF installed under in September CTP? Thanks. hyan

Any good Books on using WCF in SOA

358 byte By JuliasW at 2008-2-5
I have read through Dave Pallmans book on Indigo. Its a good introduction, but tends to focus on RPC, ratehr than WSDL and Message orientated SOA solutions.Anyone suggest any decent books (apart from MSDN) which go into the depths of true contract first (WSDL) and Message orientated SOA - To ...

MyCalculatorService Tutorial

308 byte By Khalique at 2008-2-4
Hi all,Just starting with WCF.Installed WinFx Runtime, WinFx SDK and VS2005 Extensiond for WCF and nowtrying to follow the tutorial. It asks to create a project of type 'Windows Type Library' and I couldn't find one. Can someone pleasse provide me a little guidance here?Thankskr ...

"Keep-Alive and Close may not be set using this property"

2087 byte By RichardBlewett at 2008-2-4
So I'm getting the above exception when using an IRequestReplyMessageIntermediary intermediary. It happens when teh intermediary attempts to forward to the service and it doesn't matter whether the service is running or not which tends to suggest its something happening in te intermediary ...

Soap security negotiation failed

735 byte By Vinko at 2008-2-4
I've created simple IIS hosted indigo application, and ran it successfully without problems on machine where was coded (PC1). I'm using local ethernet, where three machines (PC1, PC2, PC3) are connected through router, without any software or hardware firewall.When i run client indigo ...

'BasicSecurityProfile' sample throws exception 'NonValidatingX509Token' does not support 'X

5593 byte By innes at 2008-2-4
NB: see 'Update' below. I've been trying to work with X509 certificate-based authentication, but couldnt get it working. So, I thought I'd try one of the samples that uses x509 certificates. But when I try and run the BasicSecurityProfile sample app (C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\WinFX\ ...

MSMQ error opening queue

993 byte By LuisMiguelAbreu at 2008-2-3
Hello. I'm trying to use msmq to establish communication between and indigo client and an indigo server.I've set the endpoint like this on the server:<endpoint address="net.msmq://localhost/private$/indigotests" binding="netMsmqBinding" contract="ProgrammingIndigo.IWeather" />And I've ...

FileStream transfer

209 byte By Vinko at 2008-2-3
<div>Hello!</div> <div>Which is the easiest way to transfer file stream</div> <div>from server (service) side to client side?</div> <div>Thank you in advance.</div> <div>Best regards,</div> <div>Saso</div>

how change bindings on the configuration file

786 byte By LuisMiguelAbreu at 2008-2-2
hello.I've started to learn indigo and i'm reading david pallman's book.i was wondering if anyone could give me any pointer on how to translate this code to the september ctp:<bindings> <wsProfileBinding> <binding configurationName="Binding1" reliableSessionEnabled="true" ...

Code-generated client proxies - why?

777 byte By innes at 2008-2-2
I'm new to WCF and when I got started was soon surprised by the requirement to generate a client proxy whenever I want to communicate with a service. At least, this is the implication in the 'getting started' tutorial. Is there a means to generate a client proxy at runtime, in the same way ...

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