Microsoft Windows Communication Foundation 4.0 Cookbook for Developing SOA Applications

Chapter 5. Channel and Messaging

In this chapter, we will cover:

• Using ChannelFactory to consume a WCF service
• Invoking async operation via ChannelFactory
• Creating a service via ChannelListener
• Getting the IP address of a client consumer of a WCF service
• Adding a dynamic SoapHeader into a message

Introduction

When developing WCF services, we look at ServiceContract, endpoint, and binding configurations, which are very important in the service-oriented design view. However, under the service-oriented design view, there are many raw components that construct the WCF client and service. All these raw components provide a Channel model that allows developers to develop WCF services at a very low level. Instead of service operations and method parameters, ...