On this blog we normally talk about building and accessing WCF services, since that is the recommended way to build services for Silverlight. However, we continue to support ASMX services using the familiar “Add Service Reference” feature. Just recently...

Fiddler is a wild popular tool for web development debugging. It enables user to look at the http traffic and diagnoses issues. Natively it provides Raw, Hex, Xml and some other views that understand specific formats. For the format it doesn’t understand...

Because of un-addressable client in SL, we introduced Polling Duplex channel to support callback in WCF Silverlight. It started as a channel in Silverlight2. We added service model support in Silverlight3 and MultipeMode, aka chunking in Silverlight4...