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A new release had been published - WCF Contrib v2.1 Mar07 . This release is the final version of v2.1 Beta that was published on February 10th, you can check the entire updates made from v2.0 further in this post . You can distinguish between this release and the v2.1 Beta Feb10 by checking the assembly file version, in this release it was incremented to v2.1.0.1. Changes from v2.1 Feb10 Beta : There is a one small change which is a breaking change for those who used the asynchronous invocation pattern...
I decided to blog about common questions I receive regarding WCF Contrib. You can find all questions in the WCF Contrib FAQ . Communication Patterns What's the best practice for web applications that call services? Research has shown that in concurrent environments such as web it is more scalable and has better performance to use a dedicated communication object per a sequence of invocations (sequential - one call after another in the same execution chain flow). It's important to note that...
Via http://wcfcontrib.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=ClientChannelOutputCache Output Cache Provider Factory This is the factory class that is responsible for creating the actual output cache provider. This is where you extensibility point kicks in, you can replace the built-in factory with your own, read about it here . The factory needs to have a public parameter-less constructor and implement 'IOutputCacheProviderFactory' public interface IOutputCacheProviderFactory { IOutputCacheProvider...
Via http://wcfcontrib.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=ClientChannelOutputCache . A new feature that arrived at WcfContrib v2.1 Feb10 Beta. You can use the output caching to cache the operation output with the setting of your desire. This is extremely useful and may save you quite some time from building client caching stores. The built-in mechanism implemented here is In-Proc in-memory cache using the synchronized dictionary that comes with WcfContrib as well. You can fully customize it and change the...
Via http://wcfcontrib.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=WcfContribConfigurationSection . Full-Blown Configuration < configuration > < configSections > < section name = " wcfContrib " type = " WcfContrib.Configuration.WcfContribConfigurationSection, WcfContrib " /> </ configSections > < wcfContrib > < client applyBoosting = " true " /> < services...
I am happy to announce a new version of WcfContrib was published today. It has been tested and it is stable. However, there were some core optimizations so this is considered to be a small test-run to make sure it is alright before tagging it as a stable release. Please provide feedback, your input is important. Changes from last version : New Output Caching module for Client Channel – Very useful feature! New behavior attributes and extension elements (ActivationContextInitializerAttribute, ActivationContextExtensionBehaviorElement...
I am thrilled to announce the first release of WCF Contrib. The project can be found here: WCF Contrib at CodePlex There are a log of useful extensions and components for you to use with WCF communications, be sure to check it out. There's a lot to come in future releases too.