Book Image

Visual Studio 2015 Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Jeff Martin
Book Image

Visual Studio 2015 Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Jeff Martin

Overview of this book

Visual Studio 2015 is the premier tool for developers targeting the Microsoft platform. Learning how to effectively use this technology can enhance your productivity while simplifying your most common tasks, allowing you more time to focus on your project. Visual Studio 2015 is packed with improvements that increase productivity, and this book walks you through each one in succession to help you smooth your workflow and get more accomplished. From customization and the interface to code snippets and debugging, the Visual Studio upgrade expands your options — and this book is your fast-track guide to getting on board quickly. Visual Studio 2015 Cookbook will introduce you to all the new areas of Visual Studio and how they can quickly be put to use to improve your everyday development tasks. With this book, you will learn not only what VS2015 offers, but what it takes to put it to work for your projects.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Visual Studio 2015 Cookbook Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Creating a task-based WCF service


Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) remains a mature technology, so there is little difference in developing these applications and services with VS2015. Since WCF is a technology focused on network communications, the visible changes in Visual Studio are quite small. However, with .NET Framework 4.6.2, there have been many bug fixes and stability enhancements to ensure that it performs as expected.

Tip

WCF is Microsoft's framework designed for use in creating applications based on service-oriented architecture. Some of the features provided by WCF include interoperability, service metadata, data contracts, and security. For in-depth information on using WCF, refer to Microsoft's introduction at https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms731082(v=vs.110).aspx, and the general reference guide at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd456779(v=vs.110).aspx.

In this recipe, you'll create a task-based WCF service so that you can see what has changed. A sample...