Archive for the ‘WCF’ Category

In this post I’m going to cover the Entity Translator pattern and provide a useful base class for implementing this pattern in your application. The ‘Entity Translator Pattern’ (defined here and here) covers situations where you need to move object state from one object type to another and there are very strict reasons why these [...]


For those of you unfamiliar with the Web Client Software Factory (WCSF) it is a very capable web application framework for building web forms based thin client applications. It was created as part of the Patterns and Practices offering from Microsoft (alongside the more well known Enterprise Library). It shares many concepts with it’s sister [...]


Windows Communication Foundation is a huge technology and one that is easy to implement badly. Luckily Mehran Nikoo has collated a selection of WCF best practices in his blog: http://mehranikoo.net/CS/archive/2008/05/31/WCF_5F00_Best_5F00_Practices.aspx It covers versioning, hosting and security, all of which are worth reading in detail. Two highlights for me are the problems with using the ‘Using’ [...]



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