Chapter 10. Dispatchers and Clients

In this chapter:

Questions to Ask Yourself 258

The Dispatcher 261

The Client 269

In Chapters Chapter 5 through Chapter 7, we've looked at the Message type and how Microsoft Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) sends and receives Message objects. In Chapter 8 you saw how a binding, a channel manager, and a channel stack work together to send and receive messages (Message objects). Channel managers, channels, and to some extent the Message type and bindings are part of the channel layer. By using the channel layer exclusively, it is possible to create a fully functional messaging application, but doing so is tedious, error prone, and time consuming. WCF makes developers' lives easier via the ServiceModel layer. ...

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