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Pro C# 2010 and the .NET 4 Platform, Fifth Edition
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Pro C# 2010 and the .NET 4 Platform, Fifth Edition

by Andrew Troelsen
May 2010
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
1752 pages
41h 17m
English
Apress
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25.11. Simplifying Configuration Settings with WCF 4.0

As you were working through the first example of the chapter, you might have noticed that the hosting configuration logic is quite verbose. For example, your host's *.config file (for the original basic HTTP binding) needed to define an <endpoint> element for the service, a second <endpoint> element for MEX, a <baseAddresses> element (technically optional) to reduce redundant URIs, and then a <behaviors> section to define the runtime nature of metadata exchange.

To be sure, learning how to author hosting *.config files can be a major hurdle when building WCF services. To make matters more frustrating, a good number of WCF services tend to require the same basic settings in a host configuration ...

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