There is no doubt that external provider authentication is a must have feature in new modern applications and makes sense because users are able to easily register new accounts and also login using their social account credentials. The entire process… Read More ›
WCF
WCF Proxies – From beginner to expert
Windows Communication Foundation is a great framework for building highly secure and reliable services that can integrate across different platforms. One of its great features is that it provides SOAP tooling for automatically creating proxy classes-clients to consume the services…. Read More ›
Dependency injection in WCF
Dependency injection is a software design pattern that implements inversion of control for resolving dependencies and is highly recommended for building scalable, testable and maintainable applications. In this very blog we have seen many times this pattern, mostly in ASP.NET… Read More ›
Secure WCF Services with custom encrypted tokens
Windows Communication Foundation framework comes with a lot of options out of the box, concerning the security logic you will apply to your services. Different bindings can be used for certain kind and levels of security. Even the BasicHttpBinding binding… Read More ›
Asynchronously upload multiple photos to Azure blob container
In this post we are going to see how to asynchronously upload photos to an Azure blob container while at the same time, displaying the upload status for each photo. If you aren’t familiar with Azure Storage Services or even… Read More ›
WCF Self-Hosting multiple bindings
When building WCF Services there is this point when you have to make a critical decision: Which binding is the best for you service? Windows Communication Foundation comes with several different bindings, each of those created for specific situations and… Read More ›
Create and consume WCF Restful Service using an HttpClient
Restful Services are getting more and more popular in our days and .NET developers prefer to build them through the Web API Framework, which let’s be honest it sounds right. You need to know though that WCF Framework also provides… Read More ›
Distributed Transactions in WCF services – Part 3
Enabling distributed transaction propagation in WCF services is a tricky task and several factors and parameters need to be considered. Previous posts showed you that by default distributed transactions aren’t supported even if you enclose your operations you want to… Read More ›
Distributed Transactions in WCF services – Part 2
By default distributed transactions aren’t supported in WCF services in this post is going to prove it. We will continue from the Part 1 from these series, where we created all our service layers. Next thing we have to do… Read More ›