Below is a simple and straight forward tutorial on how you can get your web application to call a WCF service hosting on IIS6. I've broken the tutorial down into steps so as to faciliate a hands-on walkthrough. Step 1Create your WCF serviceFirst of all, create your WCF service by specifying the interface as well as the implementor //define the interfacepublic interface IWCFService{ [OperationContract] string myString(string input);} //implementation of interfacepublic class WCFService : IWCFService{ ......
Windows Communication Foundation was official released with .NET 3.0 a couple of months ago. For those people who're doing connected, distributed systems or are in any way interested in communication aspects of systems, this ought to be a God-send. WCF basically rolled all the different Microsoft messaging formats into one, making it extremely easy to architect the communication layer of simple to complex applications. This tutorial aims to explain the basic concepts behind the common terminology ......