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Visual Studio 2013 and .NET 4.5 Expert Cookbook

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Visual Studio 2013 and .NET 4.5 Expert Cookbook

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Visual Studio 2013 and .NET 4.5 Expert Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Extending a WCF service (service extensibility)


Extensibility is one of the most important concerns for any programming world. While developing a framework, a good architect always creates hooks, which lets the user explore these hooks and modify the way the framework behaves. WCF, being a powerful and simple tool to create services, also has a lot of hooks on its runtime, which will enable developers to write their own code and modify the way WCF behaves in certain scenarios. There are a great number of hooks available as interfaces in WCF, which allow you to change either the description or runtime of the WCF service.

The description of a service means all the things that are needed to start a service under the WCF environment. It includes:

  • All aspects that WCF needs to start a service

  • Endpoints (address, binding, and contract)

  • Local behaviors

After ServiceHost is opened, we cannot change the description of the service until it is closed and restarted. When the ServiceHost service is opened...