what is WCF and how we can use in ASP.NET??

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I want to know that by using WCF how can you make your website better

What is the main use of WCF in ASP.NET

I don't know anything in detail about it..

but how can I use it in Asp.net and how website looks after using it.

Riddhi Valecha · Answer

WCF - Windows Communication Foundation. Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is a framework for building service-oriented applications. Using WCF, you can send data as asynchronous messages from one service endpoint to another. A service endpoint can be part of a continuously available service hosted by IIS, or it can be a service hosted in an application. An endpoint can be a client of a service that requests data from a service endpoint. The messages can be as simple as a single character or word sent as XML, or as complex as a stream of binary data. A few sample scenarios include: A secure service to process business transactions. A service that supplies current data to others, such as a traffic report or other monitoring service. A chat service that allows two people to communicate or exchange data in real time. A dashboard application that polls one or more services for data and presents it in a logical presentation. Exposing a workflow implemented using Windows Workflow Foundation as a WCF service. A Silverlight application to poll a service for the latest data feeds.

darsh antani · Answer

when I ran that program of inserting,updating,deleting data in Gridview program using WCF services I got the following error. "The server was unable to process the request due to an internal error. For more information about the error, either turn on IncludeExceptionDetailInFaults (either from ServiceBehaviorAttribute or from the configuration behavior) on the server in order to send the exception information back to the client, or turn on tracing as per the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 SDK documentation and inspect the server trace logs." now what should I do??

darsh antani · Answer

yes,I want examples related to that.. Give me some examples of Chat service,Dashboard application using WCF.

gaurav singh · Answer

WCF is a generic communication mechanism that allows you to setup generic client/host communication between two parties. The neat thing about WCF is that is allows you to configure service properties such as transport (http/pipes/tcp/Tibco EMS), security models (any of the W3C standards), compression, encoding, timeouts, etc, without changing ANY code. That is powerful. Best of all, you can configure it so that you can have a service in C# and a client in Java (or any other language or the other way around), as long as they both talk using the same mechanism

Riddhi Valecha · Answer

Hi, I did not get what exactly you are looking for... If you need examples for reference, I can upload 1 or 2 projects with source code for study purpose.

darsh antani · Answer

thnx for wonderful details. how can we apply this chat service,dashboard application and silverlight application in an Asp.Net website??

what is WCF and how we can use in ASP.NET??

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