Custom Bindings
Standard bindings were designed to simplify how developers configure services, providing a predefined set of binding elements with the ability to customize settings for the most common features. Standard bindings will satisfy the most common cases, but at times you need more control over the channel stack, for example:
When none of the standard bindings provide the combination of features required
When you want to use features not exposed by standard bindings
For these situations you must create a CustomBinding
and select the binding elements and related settings you require. The key is to configure
the binding elements in the correct order and with settings that donât conflict with one
another. The possible combinations with a CustomBinding
may seem overwhelming, a problem that standard bindings solve by providing a reduced set of
features with which to work.
In this section, Iâll take you on a tour through the binding elements available to a
CustomBinding and provide some examples. In later
chapters, youâll see more uses of CustomBinding as I
explore some specific scenarios that require it.
CustomBinding Features
When you work with a CustomBinding, you have access to all of the same binding elements each of the standard bindings support and more. There are some extended settings for each binding element that are not available from the standard bindings for simplicityâs sake, and there are additional binding elements that are not available unless you create a ...
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