I feel that it’s pretty handy to have a simple config-less IIS-hosted WCF service when I want to check whether WCF is correctly configured in IIS. So I post such a service here just for convenience. Simple.svc : <% @ServiceHost Language= "c#...

When you are developing a WCF service with an HTTPS endpoint (i.e., you enabled Transport security), you would want to test it with a test certificate or a certificate which has some invalid data. The former can happen when you create the certificate...

Microsoft designed WCF seriously with all major basics taken into account: performance, security, and robustness/stress. I am proud as being part of the team. You might have seen the data that Saurabh, our performance Program Manager, posted in his whitepaper...

Kenny has a very good blog entry on this topic. I want to add some more points to this from performance perspective. InstanceContextMode By default, the default value of InstanceContextMode for a WCF service is PerSession. This means different things...

If you have a web-hosted service “simple.svc” under the virtual application “/simple”, you would probably get the following service address in the WSDL: < wsdl:service name =" SimpleService "> < wsdl:port name =" BasicHttpBinding_ISimpleContract...