Chapter 7. Talking to WCF and ASMX Services
In this chapter, we will cover:
- Invoking a service that exposes data
- Invoking a service such as Bing.com
- Handling faults when calling a service
- Optimizing performance using binary XML
- Using duplex communication
- Using duplex communication with the net.tcp protocol
- Debugging WCF service errors with Silverlight
- Ensuring that data is encrypted
- Securing service communication using message-based security
- Uploading files to a WCF service
- Displaying images as a stream from a WCF service
- Hooking into proxy creation using slsvcutil.exe
- Calling a WCF service from Silverlight using ChannelFactory
Introduction
When building services in .NET, most developers will choose WCF (Windows Communication Foundation). WCF was introduced ...
Get Silverlight 4 Data and Services Cookbook now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
