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gRPC + ASP.NET Core as a Migration Path for WCFs in .NET Core

August 21, 2019 Aug 21, 2019 08/21/19
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The intended audience for this blog post is one who wants to migrate from the full .Net Framework to .NET Core and has a large library of WCFs, now considered technical debt. This post will attempt to at least partially answer the question: How difficult will it be to migrate my current code base of WCFs to gRPC in .NET Core?

My experiment and observation on Service Fabric Communication Stacks

October 28, 2017 Oct 28, 2017 10/28/17
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This post is provided by Senior App Dev Manager, Vishal Saroopchand who asks the question, “How do you decide what Communications Stack to use in your Service Fabric applications?” How do you decide what Communication Stack (Remoting, WCF, Custom Implementation) to use in your Service Fabric applications? Do you know how each ...

GZip encoder for Compact WCF

September 30, 2008 Sep 30, 2008 09/30/08
Andrew Arnott
The GZip encoder is not included in NetCF as it is on the desktop WCF, but it isn't hard to build yourself and in fact we have released a sample of exactly how to add your own GZip encoder to NetCF: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=108652 So many people have asked me for it lately I thought I'd better just post the link.  Have...

Using the XmlSerializer as an XmlObjectSerializer with WCF

January 18, 2008 Jan 18, 2008 01/18/08
Andrew Arnott
The Windows Communication Foundation introduced the new DataContractSerializer to replace the XmlSerializer in many scenarios.  The DataContractSerializer is faster than the XmlSerializer, but has certain limitations.  For example it does not support serializing an object's members as XML attributes.  When you write a WCF client that calls ...

.NET Compact Framework 3.5 Power Toys RTW

December 10, 2007 Dec 10, 2007 12/10/07
Andrew Arnott
The .NET Compact Framework 3.5 Power Toys have been released.  You can download them from here.Tools included in this package: Remote Performance Monitor and GC Heap Viewer – Provides real time counter data (ranging from Garbage Collector activity to type loading info) on a running NETCF application. The GC Heap Viewer feature ...

Why .NET Compact Framework fails to call some HTTPS web servers

November 19, 2007 Nov 19, 2007 11/19/07
Andrew Arnott
A bug was discovered recently in the .NET Compact Framework version 2.0 (SP2 and earlier) and 3.5 that causes HttpWebRequest's directed at some HTTPS servers to fail with this error: (for web services) System.Net.WebException: Unable to read data from the transport connection. ---> System.Net.Sockets.SocketException: Unknown error (0x0...

What do you think of the new WCF ‘Store and forward’ Mail Transport?

October 29, 2007 Oct 29, 2007 10/29/07
Andrew Arnott
With the .NET Compact Framework 3.5 release which comes with Visual Studio 2008, a new Windows Communication Foundation transport is introduced that uses email as the communication mechanism. Others have already blogged about this new transport including Roman Batoukov and David Kline. I'd like to take a poll of the audience to see how ...

Calling WCF services from NetCF 3.5 using Compact WCF and NetCFSvcUtil.exe

September 12, 2007 Sep 12, 2007 09/12/07
Andrew Arnott
The .NET Compact Framework 3.5 adds a subset of the Windows Communication Foundation (WCF or "Indigo") to smart devices, allowing them to communicate with desktop WCF components with all the flexibility of multiple, interchangeable service bindings and endpoints.  Although it ships out of the box only with support for message-level ...

Power Toys for .NET Compact Framework 3.5 CTP released

September 12, 2007 Sep 12, 2007 09/12/07
Andrew Arnott
The .NET Compact Framework team just released the Consumer Technology Preview (CTP) of the Power Toys for .NET Compact Framework 3.5.  These Power Toys are tools to help you build, debug and optimizie your NetCF 3.5 applications.  My personal favorite is the NetCF ServiceModel Metadata Tool (NetCFSvcUtil.exe) which allows NetCF ...

The WCF subset supported by NetCF

August 20, 2007 Aug 20, 2007 08/20/07
Andrew Arnott
[Updated: 21Nov07 to clarify that custom headers are supported, but not in NetCFSvcUtil proxy generation] [Updated: 27Aug07 to correct Gzip sample, and clarify on transports & extensibility] [Updated: 23Aug07 to add SecurityAlgorithmSuite enumerable]Many people have been asking about what subset of .NET 3.0's Windows Communication ...