Here’s the general idea: I want a single service endpoint with 2 operations: one can be accessed anonymously, the other requires authentication. Simple, right? It should be. But the trick is that you need multiple authentication schemes specified...

On multiple occasions, I've found myself in need of a design pattern to allow a single thread to do some work, while other threads block. I'm not getting into the details about how this environment comes about, or what I'm exactly doing , but let me define...

Streaming with WCF Sidebar - What is really going on with my stream? This posting might not directly help you implement something, but it should give some insight as to what's going on under the hood with a stream sent to a client from a service...

Last time, I introduced this topic and gave an example of a custom stream implementation. This time, I'm going to make a few enhancements to this implementation and get into the topic of using it in a WCF Service. Streaming with WCF Part 2: Plugging...

Somewhat recently, I've been adding some tests that use streaming with WCF. I'm not going to get into the specifics of my tests, but I will say that, for me, setting up WCF for streaming and creating oddball custom stream implementations wasn't exactly...

As a tester in .NET (more specifically, WCF), every now and then, I end up defining a test requirement that isn't possible to cover with simply using our WCF product code. For example, in 4.0, I wanted to test hitting a service with an Http request that...

Disclaimer: The information contained in this posting is not intended for production environments. But it should effectively mimic a production environment. A while back, I posted a lengthy how-to for setting up a selfhosted WCF service that uses...

Today, I just installed the release of WebMatrix, along with the Beta version of SP1 for Visual Studio 2010. One of the many cool features added with this combination is the IISExpress integration in Visual Studio. Prior to this, the only options you...

In Beta3, there was an issue where WCF trace logs would be truncated after closing WebMatrix. See the posting here for historical details . With the full release of WebMatrix, there is a way to get non-truncated logs. If you are hosting the site from...

Recently, I've come across an interesting exception message in one of my Ad-Hoc WCF projects using .Net 4.0. The exception message is: The HTTP request is unauthorized with client authentication scheme 'Basic', The authentication header received...

Something as simple as ad-hoc selfhosting a WCF service can be fairly difficult if you need to use https. This is because of all the underlying pieces than need to be configured to properly host on a secure transport. In this fairly lengthy posting, I...

I've recently run across several non-intuitive steps when trying to host a simple Hello-World WCF service in IIS using NetTcpBinding. These tips apply to IIS7. There's also a great article that quickly goes through setting up TCP activation: http:...

If you set up a WCF service in WebMatrix or in Visual Studio with IISExpress as the Local IIS Web Server, you might notice some odd behavior with trace logs being truncated. Recall that with IIS, if you set up message logging or tracing, the log file...

WebMatrix Beta 3 is released here: http://www.microsoft.com/web/webmatrix/ . With that said, I'd like to help those out who wish to use WebMatrix to host a site using authentication modes other than "Anonymous." Recall that in IIS 7+, you can enable...

What is it? First, if you are unfamiliar with appcmd.exe, and what it can do for you, consider reading up on it here: http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/114/getting-started-with-appcmdexe . I've found that site fairly helpful in getting started with it...

Quick intro to the <location> element in config One of the great features for WCF services is the ability to control settings on resources within a virtual directory on a per-location basis. The way to do this is with the <location> tag...

First off, see ScottGu's blog post on IISExpress: http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2010/06/28/introducing-iis-express.aspx Next, if you need the download link for the beta, it's here: http://www.microsoft.com/web/webmatrix/ Okay, and now on...