What options can I use with WSHttpBinding to make it friendlier to load balancing? The primary difficulty encountered when using WSHttp with a load balancer is that WSHttp is easy to configure to produce application-level sessions between the client and service. Many load balancers support the...

Do I need IIS7 to use binary with HTTP for WCF? No, all you need is a custom binding because we don’t include a standard binding with that configuration out of the box. Here’s a quick example of putting binary and HTTP together with either code or configuration: BinaryMessageEncodingBindingElement...

You may have noticed that bindings use two different classes for configuring reliability: ReliableSession and OptionalReliableSession. The only difference between the two is that OptionalReliableSession has an Enabled property that allows the reliable session to be turned off. If you only have a ReliableSession...

You may have noticed that an HTTP binding is configured with an HttpClientCredentialType whereas an HTTP binding element is configured with an AuthenticationScheme. How are these two settings related? If you want to switch between a custom binding and a standard binding for HTTP, then you need to know...

How do I prevent clients from accessing my service anonymously? I've changed the settings in IIS from Anonymous Access to Integrated Windows Authentication. However, now I'm getting the error message: "Security settings for this service require 'Anonymous' Authentication but it is not enabled for the...

Yesterday's post covered most of the big new features that were added in the latest release . Today I'll go through the rest of the new features that are smaller in scope although no less exciting. When the channel stack is being built from binding elements, some binding elements want to know...

Index for bindings in this series: BasicHttp WSHttp WSDualHttp WSFederationHttp NetTcp NetPeerTcp NetNamedPipe NetMsmq The final HTTP binding that I'm covering in this series is WSFederationHttp. Federation is the ability to share identities across multiple systems...

Index for bindings in this series: BasicHttp WSHttp WSDualHttp WSFederationHttp NetTcp NetPeerTcp NetNamedPipe NetMsmq After a few days break, the series on standard bindings continues. This week will take care of the remainder of the HTTP bindings, leaving only the...

Index for bindings in this series: BasicHttp WSHttp WSDualHttp WSFederationHttp NetTcp NetPeerTcp NetNamedPipe NetMsmq The WsHttp binding is a lot like the BasicHttp binding with the Web Services knob turned up a little higher. Where BasicHttp stops with message security...

Index for bindings in this series: BasicHttp WSHttp WSDualHttp WSFederationHttp NetTcp NetPeerTcp NetNamedPipe NetMsmq Since there isn't a lot of documentation about how the standard bindings are put together, I decided to start a series going over each of the bindings...