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Introduction

It is easy to customize profile by adding entries in web.config. But the custom-entries added are available only in the codebeside classes and not in any other class.

The situation worsens if the profile entries need to be made available in custom web-control that may reside in another assembly. As such, the entries must be available at the compile time of the control-assembly and not of the website.

This article descibes a way out to the problem...

In our second article of the series "Exploring Windows Communication Foundation", we explore the customization of the service and working with faults and errors. Specifically, we look at the following:

• Hosting the service in IIS/ASP.Net Runtime
• Customizing the details of a service contract, like the name of contract, namespace-URI to which it belongs etc
• Customizing the details of an operation contract, like the name of contract, it's parameters, order etc

Downloads

The code for the project is available for download at Edujini Downloads in the Windows Communication Foundation category.

Starting with this article, we shall explore various aspects of WCF.

Introduction

Microsoft .Net Framework 3.0 introduces, among other components, Windows Communication Foundation or simply, WCF. The framework allows us, the development community, to build more service-oriented application. It incorporates several Web Service related specifications, mostly driven by W3C and OASIS consortiums. I will just list a few of them:

1. SOAP 1.1, 1.2 with Basic Profile 1.1
2. WSDL 1.1
3. MTOM
4. WS Policy and WS Policy Attachments
5. WS Metadata Exchange
6. WSS SOAP Message Security 1.0, 1.1
7. WSS SOAP Message Security Username Token Profile 1.0, 1.1
8. WSS SOAP Message Security X.509 Token Profile 1.0, 1.1
9. WS Addressing 2005/08
10. WSS SOAP Message Security Kerberos Token Profile 1.1
11. WS Secure Conversation
12. WS Reliable Messaging
13. WS Coordination
14. WS Atomic Transaction
15. WS Federation

Starting with this article, let us tour various key aspects of WCF.

Downloads

The code for the project is available for download at Edujini Downloads in the Windows Communication Foundation category.