Fundamentals of WCF | WCF Fundamentals | WCF Tutorial for Beginners | End Point in WCF

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Fundamentals of WCF:

Hi Friends, In this article I will explain about the some fundamentals of WCF,

There are

•         End Point
• Binding and Behaviour
• Contracts and service host
• WCF client and Metadata
•  Message and Channel

End Point:

Every WCFservice is a program that is a collection of End Points. Each End Point is a portal for communicating with the application.

End Point consists of 3 components.

• Address
• Binding
• Contract

Address:

 Basically the URL is like the below URL when we run the WCF service and we use this URL to connect with the service.

http://localhost:9080/Service1.svc

Binding:

Binding represents the how the client is communicating with the service.

There are different protocols for WCF to communicate with the client.

We can mention the protocol type based on the requirements.

Binding	Description
BasicHttpBinding	Basic Web service communication. No security by default
WSHttpBinding	Web services with WS-* support. Supports transactions
WSDualHttpBinding	Web services with duplex contract and transaction support
WSFederationHttpBinding	Web services with federated security. Supports transactions
MsmqIntegrationBinding	Communication directly with MSMQ applications. Supports transactions
NetMsmqBinding	Communication between WCF applications by using queuing. Supports transactions
NetNamedPipeBinding	Communication between WCF applications on same computer. Supports duplex contracts and transactions
NetPeerTcpBinding	Communication between computers across peer-to-peer services. Supports duplex contracts
NetTcpBinding	Communication between WCF applications across computers. Supports duplex contracts and transactions

Contract:

There are collection of operations specify the how end point communicate with outside world. In WCF name of the interface is mentioned in the contract, So the client application will be know about the operations .

Example:

Endpoints will be mentioned in the web.config file on the created service.

<?xml version="1.0"?> <configuration>   <system.web>     <compilation debug="true" strict="false" explicit="true" targetFramework="4.0" />   </system.web>   <system.serviceModel>     <services>       <service name="MathService"         behaviorConfiguration="MathServiceBehavior">         <endpoint           address="http://localhost:9080/Service1.svc" contract="IMathService"            binding="wsHttpBinding"/>       </service>     </services>     <behaviors>       <serviceBehaviors>         <behavior>           <!-- To avoid disclosing metadata information, set the value below to false and remove the metadata endpoint above before deployment -->           <serviceMetadata httpGetEnabled="true"/>           <!-- To receive exception details in faults for debugging purposes, set the value below to true.  Set to false before deployment to avoid disclosing exception information -->           <serviceDebug includeExceptionDetailInFaults="false"/>         </behavior>       </serviceBehaviors>     </behaviors>     <serviceHostingEnvironment multipleSiteBindingsEnabled="true" />   </system.serviceModel>   <system.webServer>     <modules runAllManagedModulesForAllRequests="true"/>   </system.webServer>  </configuration>

Click on below links for the remaining fundamentals.

• Binding and Behaviour
• Contracts and service host
• WCF client and Metadata
•  Message and Channel

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