October 2006 - Posts
One of the things we didn't get a chance to write as much about as we wanted to by RTM -- but will fix soon -- is the description tree. The service-side description tree consists of the heirarchy of objects starting with ServiceDescription class. The
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Two posts ago I wrote the following post about how to build a duplex service and client that does NOT use sessions. Once I wrote the sample, I wanted to extend it to provide some more flexibility. I've done that now, but in so doing, I ran across some
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I've been having a conversation with Scott Klein, who is busy writing a book on WCF ( http://www.amazon.com/Professional-WCF-Pr%20ogramming-Development-Communication/dp/0470089849/sr=1-2/qid=1161195651/ref=sr_1_2/102-4898838-8936%20108?ie=UTF8&s=books
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Duplex is neato, definitely, because among other things it allows a service to push information at clients as it sees fit. You could just have two services, and one service throws an endpoint at the other and then listens for stuff coming back, too, but
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It would best be said, in the end, that a client object returns from an operation call (including a one-way operation) when the outbound message is sent by the transport. This can be a network call, but need not be. The most obvious example is handing
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