Questions tagged [wcf]

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Issue accessing remote web service port from a Windows Server box

I have an issue where every laptop and phone I have access to can access a 3rd party remote URL (which contains WCF service) at an address like: http://example.com:17001/ServiceName.svc This can be accessed in a browser by every device we have…
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How to prevent IIS from recycling Application Pool when a worker process is unresponsive

We have a WCF service which handles great amount of requests. As I discovered, when the number of cuncurrent requests exceed the limit of max cuncurrent connections, the consequent requests will be queued up to be executed later. if time-out happens…
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Server Application Unavailable - Could not load file or assembly System.Web, Access is denied

I'm a developer trying to set up a virtual directory for a WCF web service on a Windows Server 2003 (32 bit) machine and I keep on getting "Server Application Unavailable" with the following logged in the event log: Message: Could not load file or…
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How long does a Windows machine use its old SAM name after the computer name is changed?

I changed the name of a domain-joined Windows 10 Pro machine and rebooted it immediately as suggested. When the system came back up, it did have the new name (\\NEWNAME\share\ works), but WCF clients running as SYSTEM still identified to other…
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Is it possible for two legs of a service to have the same SPN? Or at least clients refer to a single identity?

For a WCF service "SuperService", installed on two separate servers "Server1" and "Server2" - is it possible to have a single SPN identity string to which the WCF client "SuperClient" can refer? Such that SuperClient can consume the service hosted…
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Working WCF WebServices with NLB server

Im starting the architecture of a new project using WCF, but im not the right person to make some network considerations, so im doing some research but cannot find the answers to these questions: We´ll host the WCF service in a common Windows…
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WCF not working on some servers

I'm getting the exception: "Maximum number of items that can be serialized or deserialized in an object graph is '65536'" on two (Staging, and Production) out of three servers, and I can't think why there is an issue. Since it works on the Test…
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unable to setup net.tcp bindings for wcf application running on IIS

I am trying to set up NET.TCP bindings for a WCF application deployed on IIS. I have already added net.tcp to Enabled Protocols of application, but when I am trying to add net.tcp binding, its throwing the error shown below: I have also activated…
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Using Same X.509 serviceCertificate on Multiple WCF Services?

I have an application which exposes multiple WCF services (each a distinct facade for different client applications). Right now I'm managing a distinct certificate (created from our internal certificate server) per service (and I do this for…
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Why doesn't IIS scale consistently?

I have a WCF service (written in .NET 4) running under IIS 7.5 on Windows 2008 R2 64-bit. I created a test tool that spawns 10-20 (or more) threads - each thread creates a random payload and hits the server. On the server, I log all the accesses…
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IIS 7.5 " web service does not conform to WS-I Basic Profile v1.1."

I am trying to migrate a site from IIS 6 to IIS 7.5. When the page loads, I receive the error as shown in the screenshot below. Even while files are identical on the IIS 6 server (where this works), the error complains that "This web service is…
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Most secure way of connecting an intranet to an external server

I have an internal server that hosts an asp.net intranet application. I want to keep it completely and utterly secure and private however we need to expose some information through a WCF service to another server which hosts our external websites…
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WCF custom certificate validator not invoked in BIG-IP environment

My WCF service with a custom client certificate validator works fine in my non load balanced environment. When first deployed to BIG-IP environment there was a problem with it stripping SSL information and ending up sending only http information to…
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How to configure a network router to forward (rebroadcast) wcf discovery

I can't perform wcf discovery through a network router. I have a client and server app. When deploying these two apps to any two computers on the same lan it works perfectly. The client app finds the server app and starts communicating. When I…
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Required Roles for hosting WCF Service in Windows Server 2008 R2

Which roles do I need to install on Windows Server 2008 R2 to host WCF Services?