7.7. Miscellaneous Changes

What follows are a number of other enhancements that have been introduced in WCF4.

7.7.1. Improved Integration with WF

Microsoft has put a big focus on improving the integration between WF and WCF, and this release sees the introduction of a new project type called WF Service (a combined WCF and WF service represented entirely in XAML). Please refer to Chapter 6 for full details.

7.7.2. Default Performance-Related Settings Changed

A number of default settings for WCF services have been tweaked for better performance:

  • MaxConcurrentSessions was 10, and is now 100 times processor count.

  • MaxConcurrentCalls was 16, and is now 16 times processor count.

  • MaxConcurrentInstances was 26, and is now the total of MaxConcurrentSettions ...

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