Like Access, WCF makes it awfully easy for developers to slap a Web service front-end on anything. The problem is that you end up with a "virtual junk drawer of services," to quote Nayaki Nayyar, ...

If you've consumed an ASP.NET ASMX Web service before, then you'll feel right at home consuming a WCF service. In a previous article, I discussed how a Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) service ...

Sending credentials automatically to Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) Web Service can make your client application more dynamic. Transport security (HTTPS) is used in WCF projects for ...

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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 ...

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 ...