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Monday, May 12, 2008 5:00 AM

Disabling the Visual Studio Service Host

When debugging a WCF project in Visual Studio the WCF Service Host starts up to host my service. How do I stop this from happening so that I can use my own service host? One of the new tools in Orcas is the WCF Service Host that allows you to automatically
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Friday, May 09, 2008 5:00 AM

Setting the Configuration Name

What's the difference between the Name and ConfigurationName on service contracts and behaviors? The Name property sets the name of the service in metadata while the ConfigurationName property sets the name of the service in configuration. Metadata is
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Wednesday, May 07, 2008 5:00 AM

Generating Types with Lists

I have a data contract that contains a collection type but the generated proxy appears as an array. How can I make the proxy use a collection type as well? I've talked in the past about how the representation of a type in metadata is decoupled from the
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Monday, May 05, 2008 5:00 AM

Private Data Members

Why does a data contract with private or internal members generate a proxy with public fields? The obvious answer is that the representation for data contracts doesn't contain information about member visibility but that just leads to the question of
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Wednesday, April 23, 2008 5:00 AM

Manual Context Management

How do I manually manage the context when sharing a client object? The default mode when using a context binding is for the context to be managed internally by the context channel underneath the client proxy. This is similar to how by default cookies
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Monday, April 21, 2008 5:00 AM

Context Channel Shapes

What channels can be used in a context binding? The primary limitation for building a context binding is that the channel stack has to have the right shape. The context exchange protocol used by a context binding requires that the first invoked operation
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Wednesday, April 16, 2008 5:00 AM

Hosting Identity

How can I run a service operation hosted in IIS using a specific identity? There are two ways for your operation to be running using a specific identity: start off running under that identity; or, start off running under a different identity and change
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Tuesday, April 15, 2008 5:00 AM

One Shot Serialization

Why do some serialization errors when sending a response not result in a fault being returned to the client? In the typical service operation, sending a response is comprised of returning the appropriate information from the service method to construct
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Friday, April 11, 2008 5:00 AM

Passing Around Endpoints

Can I construct a proxy object on one machine and pass it to another? No, there's no concept in WCF of sending a fully constructed proxy object from one place to another. Consider that there are two different things that "passing" a proxy object could
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Thursday, April 03, 2008 5:00 AM

Writing Multiple Detail Elements in Faults

How do I create a fault with multiple child nodes for the detail element? All of the overloads of CreateFault take a single argument for detail, which lets me build a tree of nodes but not a forest. The trick here is not to get hung up on trying to make
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Friday, March 28, 2008 5:00 AM

Overriding Protection for IPSec

How do I use username credentials with IPSec? I'm told that I need to turn on security but my connection is already secure. WCF only permits username tokens to be transmitted over a binding that's secure. If a username and password are transmitted without
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Tuesday, March 25, 2008 5:00 AM

Why Ordering is Ignored

Why doesn't validation catch when the two sides of a reliable connection disagree about whether the session is ordered? It doesn't actually matter to the sender whether the session is supposed to be ordered, and so it doesn't actually matter whether the
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Monday, March 24, 2008 5:00 AM

Getting Caught by Loopback

I'm trying to connect to a service on the same machine using Windows credentials and getting an authentication error. I can connect to the service from other machines. I can also connect to the service if I set up an endpoint that listens on the loopback
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Thursday, March 20, 2008 5:00 AM

Single Reader for MSMQ

My application needs to process messages from a queue in-order but multiple messages are being read at once. How do I make the service only use a single reader? There are two modes that control how many requests a service can process at once. InstanceContextMode
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Tuesday, March 18, 2008 5:00 AM

Mystery of the Disappearing Addressing Headers

Why do the messages logged by my service show addressing headers but those headers disappear when the message is sent? This is easy to explain once you actually look at the messages. Here's a quick test program that generates some SOAP 1.1 messages with
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