In our previous WCF Tutorial, we described how to make a very simple client/server application where clients would call functions on the server through a shared interface. In this tutorial, I’m going to expand that application to allow the server to execute functions on the client by using callbacks. Essentially, this is WCF’s mechanism to allow events to be raised from the server to it’s connected clients. Read More »

What the heck is WCF? For a long time, I couldn’t tell you exactly what it was. And honestly, I still don’t think I can. WCF is such a broad concept that it’s hard to boil down into a concise explanation. When I finally started reading about it, and getting beyond the concepts, things started to clear up. That’s what today’s tutorial is about - cutting through all the concepts and just use WCF to build a basic server and a basic client. Read More »