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The Microsoft WCF Code Samples Collection is a roundup and map of WCF code samples from various sources including the MSDN library, Code Gallery, CodePlex, and Microsoft Support.

You can add to the WCF code examples collection by sharing in the comments or emailing me atFeedbackAndThoughts at live.com.

Common Categories for WCF Code Samples
The WCF Code Samples Collection is organized using the following categories:

WCF Code Samples Collection

Categories	Items
Addresses	Addressing Multiple Endpoints Multiple Endpoints at a Single ListenUri Usage of Standard Endoints
AJAX / JSON	AJAX Service Using HTTP POST AJAX Service Using Complex Types AJAX Service with JSON and XML AJAX Service Without Configuration Basic AJAX Service JSONP JSON Serialization
Bindings	BasicBinding BasicBinding with Transport Security ByteStream Encoder Custom Binding Imperative Custom Binding Reliable Session Custom Binding Reliable Session over HTTPS Custom Binding Security Custom Binding Transport and Encoding Dead Letter Queues Default NetTcpBinding Message Security Binding Message Security over Message Queuing Message Security Sample MTOM Encoding Net.TCP Port Sharing Sample NetNamedPipeBinding NetNamedPipeBinding NetTCPBinding Poison Message Handling in MSMQ 4.0 ReceiveContext Product Generator Sessions and Queues SRMP Transacted Batching Transacted MSMQ Binding Two-Way Communication Volatile Queued Communication WS 2007 Federation HTTP Binding WS Dual Http WS Reliable Session WS Transaction Flow WS Transport Security WS Transport With Message Credential WSHttpBinding
Clients	Address Headers Avoiding Problems with the Using Statement Channel Factory Expected Exceptions Interoperating with ASMX Web Services Retrieve Metadata Typed Client XMLSerializer Sample
Cloud / Windows Azure	Chat service which can push data to Silverlight clients Service using BasicHttpBinding and .Net client Service using binary HTTP binding and Silverlight client Service using binary HTTP binding with transport security and message credentials and Silverlight client Service using the AtomPub protocol and a .Net client Service using WebHttpBinding binding and ASP.NET AJAX client
Contracts	Asynchronous Basic Data Contract DataContractSerializer Sample Default Message Contract Duplex Fault Contract Known Types Object References One-Way POCO Support Session Setting the Use and Style Properties Stream Untyped Request/Reply Unwrapped Messages Usage of Serialization Binder - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff576185.aspx XmlReader Sample XmlSerializer Faults
Cryptography	Cryptographic Agility in WCF Security
Discovery	Announcements Asynchronous Find Basic Configuration Custom Find Criteria Discovery Binding Element Sample Discovery Proxy Sample Discover a Service with Unique Listen Uri Mode Sample Discovery with Scopes Discovery Router Service Workflow Discovery Sample
Exception Management	Advanced Error Handling Advanced Filters Bridging and Error Handling Circular Tracing Dynamic Reconfiguration ETW Tracing Extending Tracing Hello World with the Routing Service PII Security Lockdown Security Validation Tracing and Message Logging Using Performance Counters WCF Services and Event Tracing for Windows WCF Analytic Tracing WMI Provider
Extensibility	Authorization Policy Chunking Channel Client Validation Custom Channel Dispatcher Custom Lifetime Custom Message Encoder: Compression Encoder Custom Message Encoder: Custom Text Encoder Custom Message Filter Custom Message Interceptor Custom Security Metadata Endpoint Custom Service Host Custom Token Custom WSDL Publication CustomDiscoveryMetadata DataContract Surrogate Dispatch by Body Element Durable Instance Context Durable Issued Token Provider Extending Control Over Error Handling and Reporting Feed Formatter (JSON) Form Post HTTP Acknowledgement Channel HttpCookieSession Instancing Initialization Local Channel Message Inspectors NetHttpBinding Operation Formatter and Operation Selector Pooling Reliable Secure Profile Route by Body SAML Token Provider Streaming Feeds Strongly-Typed Extensions Supporting Tokens Token Authenticator Token Provider Transport: Custom Transactions over UDP Transport: UDP Transport: WSE 3.0 TCP Interoperability UDP Activation User Name Password Validator WebContentTypeMapper WSStreamedHttpBinding X.509 Certificate Validator
General	Addressing ConcurrencyMode.Reentrant Configuration Channel Factory Extended Protection Policy Hierarchical Configuration Model Imperative Multiple Contracts Multiple Endpoints Multiple Endpoints at a Single ListenUri OperationContextScope Service Description Simplified Configuration for WCF Services Usage of Standard Endpoints WCF Samples Collection (zip)
Hosting	ASP.NET Compatibility Configuration-Based Activation IIS Hosting Using Inline Code MSMQ Activation NamedPipe Activation Self-Host SystemWebRouting Integration Sample TCP Activation Windows Process Activation Windows Service Host
Interoperability	ASMX Client with a WCF Service Using the WCF Moniker with COM Clients
Performance and Scalability	Concurrency Default Service Behavior Instancing Metadata Publishing Behavior Service Debug Behavior Throttling
Queues and Reliable Sessions	Custom Demux Message Correlation Message Queuing to Windows Communication Foundation Message Security over Message Queuing NetNamedPipeBinding NetTCPBinding Sessions and Queues Windows Communication Foundation to Message Queuing
Security	Authorizing Access to Service Operations Cryptographic Agility in WCF Security Impersonating the Client Membership and Role Provider Message Security Anonymous Message Security Certificate Message Security User Name Message Security Windows Message Security Binding Service Auditing Behavior Service Identity Sample WS Transport Security
Session Management	Sessions and Queues
Transactions	Service Transaction Behavior Transport: Custom Transactions over UDP Transacted Batching Transacted MSMQ Binding WS Transaction Flow
WCF Data Services	Building an Data Services WPF Client Entity Framework 4.0 and WCF Data Services 4.0 in Visual Studio 2010 Hands-on-Lab: Using Data Services in .NET 4 and VS2010 with Silverlight JSONP and URL-controlled format support for Data Services Streaming Photo Data Service SubSonic data provider for Data Services Using WCF Data Services Sample Code WCF (ADO.NET) Data Services IUpdateable implementation for Linq to Sql
WCF RIA Services	Add Service Reference’ to a Domain Service Archived VS 2008, .NET 3.5, SL3 Samples Authentication Quick Starts Authorization based dynamic UI and Navigation Authorization and Navigation Samples, part 2 ComboxBox Sample for RIA Services Custom Metadata Provider Integration with WCF Routing NHibernate Sample Testing Domain Services [emos Repository pattern] WCF extensibility sample
WCF Syndication	Stand-Alone Diagnostics Feed Loosely-Typed Extensions
Web	Advanced Format Selection ASP.NET Caching Integration AspNetRouteIntegration Automatic Format Selection Basic HTTP Service Basic Resource Service Conditional Get and Put SOAP and HTTP Endpoints UriTemplate UriTemplate Table UriTemplate Table Dispatcher

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I completely agree with Donald. Microsoft has always had a wealth of information for developers but the problem has always been where to find things and what criteria is used in deciding where things go. Although I regularly use a lot of Microsoft websites I struggle to know where to find information, I must confess to not knowing the difference between CodePlex and MSDN code gallery for example. A well know search engine is usually my route into all things Microsoft!

It is therefore a great idea to collect this information together and give us a starting place but a blog is not the right place to start looking. (IMHO blogs should always be supplementary material to the existing documentation however I increasingly find that essential information is buried in blogs which you either know about or stumble upon or never find at all!)

I would have thought that landing pages within MSDN would be the best starting place for this. In future I would hope that it could be common practise in Microsoft that when adding new documentation, these guidance maps are kept up-to-date and in addition proper consideration is give to where something should live in the first place.

The developer guidance map on connect does not appear to be the same list as that shown above either.

I do appreciate the work you are doing, I just hope it is not in vein.

Carl