Greetings,
I have a wcf service that exposes functionality to my wpf application. This works fine.
I would like to create a web version and I am wondering how can I connect from my asp.net mvc application to my wcf service? Should I use the same approach as for WPF application (which uses Proxy to connect to the WCF Service.
Is there any nice article how can i do this?
You can just add a Service Reference to your MVC application and use the proxy just as you would in your WPF app.
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I have to write a simple Web Service application in ASP.NET. I read somewhere that Web Services is now obsolete and some new technologies like WCF is there.
But as the name suggests, Windows Communication Foundation, might me restricted to WinForms applications only and not for ASP.NET. What shall I use with Visual Studio 2010?
I want to build a simple Web Forms application and not MVC.
What shall I use with Visual Studio 2010?
You have many choices other than ASP.NET Web Services which are completely obsolete now. So if you are starting a new project and need to develop a web service you might consider:
WCF
ASP.NET Web API
ServcieStack
ASP.NET MVC
But as the name suggests, Windows Communication Foundation, might me
restricted to WinForms applications only
The name is misleading. WCF has strictly nothing to do with Windows Forms only. You could host a WCF service in an ASP.NET application or self-host it if you want.
Simple Web Service application in ASP.NET (webForm OR mvc) ?
My firt choice : ASP.NET WebApi
Easy to unit test
Easy to secure
Restful
Still, WCF is pretty cool too because it is very well integrated with VS, and easy to configure through web.config
Both WebApi and WCF make it possible to version your web services.
How to call Oracle web service using asp.net web service? Is there a difference between calling asp.net web service and calling Oracle web service from asp.net web service?
I found how to call asp.net web service from another one but not Oracle
If the web service (any web service) has a WSDL, then you can call it from .Net code. Just point the WCF Configuration utility at the URL, or import the WSDL and it will generate the proxy for you.
I have a web application, in which i have added wcf service item using add new item menu. Is it possible to having a webserivce in web application? If yes, can be called from client?
Yes it is possible to have a web service in a web application and you should be able to call the service from the client. For example, I've called wcf services in my web application using either jquery or asp.net ajax.
My application is in asp.net 2.0. Is it possible to consume WCF service developed in asp.net 3.5? If possible, how can we consume wcf service in asp.net 2.0?
Thanks in advance.
If the WCF service in question exposes a basic http endpoint, you should be able to connect to it from an ASP.NET 2.0 website as if it was a web service. Simply right-click the ASP.NET 2.0 project in Visual Studio, and select "Add Web Reference" - this will startup the wizard that can generate a proxy for you to consume the WCF service as if it is simply a web service.
Is it possible to create a Windows Service (background apps accessible in services.msc) application and host an ASP.NET WebService or a Silverlight compatible WebService within it?
I want to create a WebService that performs COM interop calls to something and decided that a Windows Service that interfaces with COM directly as well as hosting the WebService would be the most flexible way to go. I can then create a ASP.NET website and Silverlight application to interact with the WebService.
The other way is to have the ASP.NET perform the COM interop calls on the server side but how safe is this and does .NET even allow that?
You cannot host an ASMX web service in a Windows Service. You can, and should, do it with WCF, which replaces ASMX.
On the other hand, there's no reason you can't use COM interop in an ASP.NET application, as easily as you can with any other .NET application. The only thing to be aware of is multithreading; since it will be called from a service, your COM object will be getting called on multiple threads, which it may not expect.