Binding and behaviour in WCF | Fundamentals of WCF

                             Hi Friends , in this article i will explain about the Binding and Behaviour of WCF. It is one of the fundamental of WCF.In previous article i already explained about Fundamentals of WCF.

Binding and behaviour:

Binding represents how the client can communicate with the service.

We can know this with the small example.

                               Suppose we have to create the service for two clients ,one client will access SOAP using HTTP and second client access Binary using TCP.

Using webservice it is impossible but using WCF we can do by adding extra endpoint in the configuration file. i.e. in web.config

<?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"/> <endpoint address="net.tcp://localhost:8080/MyService/MathService.svc"         contract="IMathService"                   binding="netTcpBinding"/>       </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>

In the below example i explain about the Behaviour at the service level. In the service behavior I have mention the servieMetadata node with attribute httGetEnabled='true'. This attribute will specifies the publication of the service metadata. Similarly we can add more behavior to the service. 

<system.serviceModel>   <services>     <service name="MathService"       behaviorConfiguration="MathServiceBehavior">       <endpoint address="" contract="IMathService"         binding="wsHttpBinding"/>     </service>   </services>   <behaviors>     <serviceBehaviors>       <behavior name="MathServiceBehavior">         <serviceMetadata httpGetEnabled="True"/>         <serviceDebug includeExceptionDetailInFaults="true" />       </behavior>     </serviceBehaviors>   </behaviors> </system.serviceModel>

If you want to know contracts in WCF click on below link

What are Contracts in WCF | Service Contract | Data Contract | Message Contract | Fault Contract in WCF

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