Using Transaction with WCF Services

If you need to call two different WCF service and be sure that both are successful before committing, you’ll need to use transaction. This will require that both service’s operation contain the attribute TransactionFlow with the option to Allowed. Many other option could have been possible. NotAllowed is when you do not want to be […]

WCF Inspector for logging

We have already talk about how to log every call of your WCF service with a custom factory for all your WCF service. This is a good way to log or to verify access to all your service methods. The main point was to create a factory which is called every calls it’s done. Once […]

WCF Data Services is the implementation of OData by Microsoft

Several time a week I hear confusion concerning WCF services, WCF Data Services, ADO Data Service and OData. First of all, ADO Data Service is out. In fact, it’s the old name for WCF Data Service which is the good sentence for OData by Microsoft. WCF service focus on contract when Data Service focus more […]

How to use log every call of your WCF service’s methods

If you want to log information like which method has been called with which parameters on every methods of your WCF service, you shouldn’t set the log every time on each method. Two approaches is possible to create something clean. The first option is to create an attribute and when this one is present will […]