WCF Web Model – POX/JSON Support

For the past few days I was studying the details of the Web Programming Model of WCF.This feature enables WCF services to be called using simple HTTP requests i.e. without the messages wrapped in SOAP format.The messages can be POX(Plain Old XML) or JSON(JavaScript Object Notation).So the client for this kind of services does not [...]

WCF Proxy and Channels

In my last post I had discussed about what is happening in the channels at the service end and how they are related to the ServiceHost class that we normally use.In this post we will take a look at what is happening at the client side channels.In the server side we have channel listeners listening [...]

Service Host & Channels

In this post I will list down my understanding of the WCF Channel Model and how it is related to the ServiceHost class.This is the class we frequently use to host our services in a console program/windows service.First quickly let us take a look into the base class of the ServiceHost.It is an abstract class [...]