Getting Started

Welcome to the world of windows communication foundation. This section you will learn what is WCF and how it is differ from web service. Tools require setting up the environment for WCF development and great books on WCF also mention here.

• Introduction to WCF
• Development Tools
• Difference between WCF and Web service

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.