The WCF subset supported by NetCF

re: The WCF subset supported by NetCF

Martin Bohring — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 14:54:05 GMT

No custom headers ?

This is a major bummer.

We just completed an app where we use custom

headers to track component state, end user language

settings (according to a WS spec I can't remember right now) and some other app specific meta info, we

don't want to transfer as parameters.

This is realized via the extension hooks WCF Desktop provides.

We already foresee a port to a platform for embedded devices (either CE or more likely .NET Micro Framework). The Desktop WCF3.0 based app runs under XPE.

If the Compact Framework 3.5 already contains such a stripped down version of WCF, I can only imagine what's left if it comes to the .NET Micro Framework

Subset of WCF supported by .NET Compact Framework 3.5

Jackie Goldstein's Weblog (In Israel) — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 15:53:08 GMT

If you are developing mobile apps and want to know what aspects of WCF will be support by NetCF 3.5,

Subset of WCF supported by .NET Compact Framework 3.5

Community Blogs — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 22:43:54 GMT

If you are developing mobile apps and want to know what aspects of WCF will be support by NetCF 3.5,

re: The WCF subset supported by NetCF

BlackTiger — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 10:43:23 GMT

Any working samples?

re: The WCF subset supported by NetCF

chadbr — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 07:53:10 GMT

For what it’s worth…

It sure would be nice if the CF supported WCF binary serialization (and plain binary serialization!)

Doing XML on a small device just doesn't make sense from a processing and memory perspective. Our development efforts are constantly hampered by this limitation.

Here’s hoping to see it “fixed” in 4.x.

Handy "What is supported" table for Windows Communication Foundation in .NET Compact Framework v3.5

David Kline — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 00:30:10 GMT

Last month, Andrew Arnott posted a very handy table that compares the Windows Communication Foundation

.NET Compact Framework 3.5 支持 WCF 的子集

黎波 — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 19:07:16 GMT

本文介绍了 .NET Compact Framework 3.5 对 Windows Communication Foundation 的支持，并简单比较了它跟 .NET Framework 3.5 版的功能差异。

Using Compact SvcUtil to interact with ServiceContracts

Dan Horbatt's Blog — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 02:26:24 GMT

Due to size constraints, only a subset of WCF features were ported over, including ServiceContract support.

Using NetCFSvcUtil.exe to interact with ServiceContracts

Noticias externas — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 02:57:01 GMT

Due to size constraints, only a subset of WCF features were ported over, excluding ServiceContract support

re: The WCF subset supported by NetCF

Jose María Villagrá — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 10:47:47 GMT

Ups, no username/password on WS-Security message level security?? Ups... that's a big problem for me.... we have an API thats implementes username/password based on our Custom Providers.

If we dont have this option in WCF in NETCF, how can we do it? Any idea?

Thanks

re: The WCF subset supported by NetCF

Benk — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 09:41:57 GMT

I still think the mail transport is a very dubious decision ... Especially when there are so many critical things left out

Binary formatter

USerName/ Password

Callbacks and services...

Proxy generation..

Reliable messaging..

What additional value does 3.5 give us over 2.0 eg we alreally got over running basic binding over https. Compression ? DO we have 1/2 meg of dlls for mail channels and client WS-addresing support when devices and the certificante may get lost ..

Thanks for the writeup however...

re: The WCF subset supported by NetCF

Miguel Madero — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 07:27:25 GMT

I dont know why WS-ReliableMessaging is not including, I thinks that one in particular is really needed and it's also easy to implement.

re: The WCF subset supported by NetCF

Miguel Madero — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 07:27:33 GMT

I dont know why WS-ReliableMessaging is not included, I thinks that one in particular is really needed and it's also easy to implement.

Random CF.NET links

Ruslan Trifonov's blog — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 12:59:42 GMT

I was too busy lately in order to blog and read blogs(never do this at home). I had to "read"

re: The WCF subset supported by NetCF

andarno — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 09:00:54 GMT

I'm sorry for the confusion in the table. NetCF's version of WCF _does_ support custom headers. It is merely the automated service proxy generation tool (NetCFSvcUtil) that does not support custom headers. You're free to use the Compact WCF's message pipe to send/receive messages with any custom headers you want.

re: The WCF subset supported by NetCF

Abraham — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 00:49:13 GMT

SoapFormatter is not supported in Compact WCF

re: The WCF subset supported by NetCF

bob — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 09:15:44 GMT

I agree with Benk.

Not having the following is a big disappoint to me.

Binary formatter -- xml serialization is slow and pocket devices don't have much MHz to spear.

UserName/ Password -- needed in an enterprise system.

Reliable messaging -- pocket devices are always on bad networks e.g. mobile phone network / wifi etc....

re: The WCF subset supported by NetCF

Alexander Philippou — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 12:58:39 GMT

You can use Fast Infoset as binary formatter on both .NET and .NET CF. It's more compact, faster to process, standards-based and cross-platform interoperable. More info at http://www.noemax.com/products/wcfx/

re: The WCF subset supported by NetCF

Dan C — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:19:40 GMT

Where can I find the GzipEncoder samples?

re: The WCF subset supported by NetCF

mobile phone deals — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 03:13:14 GMT

I've tried binary serialization but my mobile phone device is grinding to an halt!

re: The WCF subset supported by NetCF

Zack Evans — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 22:38:45 GMT

Guys, hello.. and thanx in advance.. I've spent the last 3 days getting my WCF service to work with the GZipMessageEncoder sample found in the WCF samples pack.. I've tested with a normal winforms app and was so exited with my compression until I found out that I couldn't use that library in the compact framework. My question is am I missing something ? (don't joke, I know system.servicemodel.Configuration and a couple) . how can i then use gzipmessgeencoding in compact framework. and will there be support in the future?

Once again, thanx in advance your help and comments will be appreciated.

Regards

Zack