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Category Archives: WCF

Problems with Deploying WCF services on IIS 7.0 (or IIS 6, IIS) and other deployment options and scenarios (visual studio .NET and Windows Activation Services)

There are 3 main ways to deploy Windows Communication Foundation – WCF services to consume: 1- IIS 2- Windows Activation Service a.k.a WAS 3- Visual Studio .NET for development and dev testing purposes as part of a visual studio solution. For full details about Windows Communciation Foundation deployment scenarios, categories and structure please refer to [...]

Problem Running WCF on Visual Studio 2008 and Windows 7 – could not find host – page timeout

This post is about a problem that I have had recently with visual studio .Net 2008, WCF and Windows 7. I have a working WCF service (add to the solution by another person) which I am trying to run from within my visual studio 2008. Normally, you should go to your project, right click on [...]

Introduction and Notes about WCF, Silverlight and Creating a Silverlight application that consumes – invokes a WCF service via async (asynchronous) web service call

This post is an introduction and a collection of some useful information, notes and facts about WCF in genreal, Silverlight and running a silverlight web application that uses a WCF service via asynchronous web service call. – The first fact that you need to know is that: The only option for web service calling in [...]