In this month's article in the print edition of Visual Studio magazine (WCF and Service Oriented Architectures), I looked at the major components of a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and showed ...

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I'm having a little-bit of confusion properly understanding how WCF services generate there XML (or JSON) payload for POST RESTful services. I have such a service that I wrote, and depending on the ...

Windows Communication Foundation has steadily evolved to better support SOA and Web services. Here's how to get the most out of your WCF-based services architecture. If you want to exploit ...

WCF (Windows Communication Foundation) is a secure, reliable, and scalable messaging platform that can be used to build Web services in .Net. It provides a unified programming model for developing ...

Until REST APIs came along, SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) was the de facto standard protocol on which web services were based. When working in ASP.Net Core, you might well encounter the need to ...