Thursday, September 23, 2010

What’s Wrong with my WCF Service? Yavor Knows!

by John Papa via JohnPapa.net on 9/23/2010 4:30:00 PM

WCF is an integral part of the communication stack for Silverlight applications, but sometimes things go wrong, very wrong. How do you fix those issues. In this episode of Silverlight TV, Yavor Georgiev from the WCF and Silverlight team shows you how to identify the problems with your WCF services and how to fix them. He covers several topics including these:

• Setting up your service 
• Debugging issues with "add service reference"
• Handling Faults: How to get exceptions propagated from the server to Silverlight
• How to use Fiddler to use with WCF
• Using the new relative address feature in Silverlight 4

Relevant links:

• John's blog and on Twitter (@john_papa)
• The Silverlight Web Services team blog

If you liked this, you might like these Silverlight TV episodes …

• SL TV 44: Top Four Questions from the WCF RIA Services Forum
• SL TV 41: Top Tips for RIA Services
• SL TV 34: Duplex Communication with WCF in Silverlight 4
• SL TV 26: Exposing SOAP, OData, and JSON Endpoints for RIA
• SL TV 18: WCF RIA Services Validation

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