Wcf

WCF — Cross-machine semaphore with WCF

Came across an interesting question on StackOverflow on how one might be able to throttle the number of requests across multiple servers running the same WCF service. So for instance, if you have 3 servers sitting behind a load balancer and for one reason or…

.Net Tips — Use Request and Response objects

We’ve all been there before, write a simple service with a simple method:

[code lang=”csharp”]
[ServiceContract]
public interface IService
{
 [OperationContract]
 int SimpleMethod(object param1);
}
[/code]

WCF — Improve performance with greater concurrency

As good and innovative as WCF is, it also introduced a lot of new complexities and whilst it is easy to get something up and running quickly it takes much more understanding to make your service perform as well as it could.

.Net Tips — Using custom ServiceThrottlingAttribute to specify WCF service throttling behaviour

If you have created a WCF service in the past then I assume you’re aware that WCF is very heavily configuration-driven and that you can specify the service behaviour…

.Net Tips — using configSource or file attribute to externalize config sections

There’s a little known attribute which was introduced in the .Net framework 2.0 called configSource, which allows you to externalize sections of the configuration file.

Dealing with Circular References in WCF

Using entity classes in your application and WCF is complaining about the circular references between your classes? Well, I had the exact same problem not long ago, and I found this post on James Kovac’s blog about circular references and how to get around…