Category Archives: WCF

A Very Cool WCF Tool: WCFTestClient.exe

This an oldie, but a goodie. Not many people use this tool, much less know about it or where it exists. By default when you install VS2008 (I’m not sure if its part of 2005 or not) you have a tool at your disposal in the Visual Studio install path: My Path: c:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual…

New Dime Cast: Migrating from .asmx web services to WCF web services

Woo hoo! I created another Dime Cast and its up and running today! Learn how to migrate from your old asmx web services to new fancy WCF web services. Check it out here    

Intro to WCF Screen Cast Now Available

I have a new Screen cast available on  DimeCasts.net. It is entitled “Introduction to WCF: Creating your first Service“. In this episode we will take a look at how to create your first WCF service. We will first walk you though the ABCs of what a WCF service is, we will then show you step…

How To: REST Services in WCF 3.5 Part 2 – The POST

This post is part of a series. Part 1 Part 2 (this post)   Implementing a POST HTTP Verb Call In this post we’re going to cover what it takes to implement a PUT into our REST Service that we defined in Part 1 of this series. First of all, what is the POST HTTP…

SVCUtil & VS2008

After some research into a Service Reference problem I was having with Silverlight I came to find out (but not officially) that VS2008 DOES NOT use SvcUtil under the hood to get its service reference. It uses its own internal implementation of a proxy generation tool. I’ll have to confirm this conclusion with some authority/book/etc,…