Inside Windows® Communication Foundation

Chapter 8. Bindings

In this chapter:

The Binding Object Model 206

The BindingElement Type 214

The TransportBindingElement Type 221

The BindingContext Type 222

Using a Binding 225

Creating Custom Bindings 230

A binding is a type that is the primary means by which a developer expresses intent for how a messaging application will interact with other messaging participants. Functionally, bindings create a stack of channel factory or channel listener objects. In Design Pattern terms, a binding is a factory. In terms of the service model layer and the channel layer, a binding is visible in the service model layer, and the objects it creates impact the channel layer. As you saw in Chapter 6 and Chapter 7 the objects a binding directly (channel factories and ...