Using the WCF Test Client without Visual Studio

Introduction There are times when you need to use the WCF test client in places where Visual Studio is not installed, namely a production server or a non-developer machine at times. There is a post on...

WCF Asynchronous Service Methods and Timeouts Gotcha

Asynchronous Methods in WCF I have tested WCF asynchronous service methods on several occasions and I have come to a few conclusions. These of course are just my opinions and I am open to conversation...

WCF Security: Requiring Authorization to lock down your Exposed Services

Introduction WCF Security is definitely not something that can be picked up easily. It isn’t plug and play or something that can simply be turned on or off; and it most definitely is not easy to...

Setting Up WCF with Windows Authentication

Introduction Configuring WCF to do anything for the first time is very time consuming, frustrating and just generally a hassle. My coworker and I mucked through this wonderful WCF configuration experi...

Entity Framework: Executing SQL Strings

I’ve griped about this before, not sure why everything has to be so complicated with EF at times, but holy hell executing just a simple SQL String “SELECT * FROM Table” is a major fe...

WCF: Why isn’t my object showing up on the client side?

I had a minor head-palm moment a few minutes ago. Problem I declared an object in my WCF service with the correct DataContract and DataMember attributes, but my service reference still didn’t ac...