I've been struggling around the aggregation used in WCF's Binding object model, as implemented in the GetProperty<T> method (see relevant discussions with Nicholas Allen from the WCF team here … more

A few days ago I ranted a bit about the Binding object model in WCF and how restrictive it feels when I want to imperatively describe my service bindings without being tied down to a specific … more

This is the last part of my continuing saga of serializing dictionaries over WCF and beyond.Quick recap: While WCF allows me to serialize an IDictionary easily, trying to serialize that dictionary … more

As we mentioned here and here, I've been struggling to get the NameValueCollection object to pass through WCF serialization. Please read the first two posts first for some context. In the … more

As we mentioned here, I'm currently struggling with getting WCF to serialize my NameValueCollection object on a service operation. The previous post goes over the general details, while here I' … more

As we all know, IDictionaries aren't serializable. This is has been a cause of much concern and consternation throughout the years. Throughout these trying times, however, we had one shining … more

One of WCF's goals is interoperability with standard protocol stacks, like WSE or other WS-* implementations. This led, I am told, to the design of WCF's default object serializer - the … more

I've been using WCF for the past few months and on the whole, I think the programming model works. I'm getting to really like the extensibility model and the whole deal seems to click … more