WCF Fundamental

In this part of tutorial you are going to learn about some fundamental concepts in WCF. These concepts and terms will be used throughout this tutorial.

• End Point
• Bindings and Behavior
• Contracts and Service host
• Message and Channel
• WCF client and Metadata

Tips!

• Always create the service with Interface->Implementation format, mention the contract in Interface.
• Define the service in Class library and refer the class library in Host project. Don’t use service class in host project.
• Change the instance mode to per call as default.
• Always catch exception using try/catch block and throw exception using FaultException < T >.
• Logging and Include exception should be enable while compiling the project in debug mode. While in production deployment disable the logging and Include exception details.