WCF Multi-layer Services Development with Entity Framework Fourth Edition

Creating the HelloWorld solution and project

Now that we have a basic understanding of WCF concepts and terminologies, let's start building a simple HelloWorld WCF service. Before we can build the WCF service, we need to create a solution for our service project. We also need a directory in which we will save all the files. Throughout this book, we will save our project source codes in the C:\SOAwithWCFandEF\Projects directory. We will have a subfolder for each solution we create, and under this solution folder we will have one subfolder for each project.

Note

You don't need to manually create these directories with Windows Explorer; Visual Studio will create them automatically when you create the solutions and projects.

Now, follow these steps to ...