Tag Archives: WCF

DataContract weird characters and Mono

My solution will run on dotNET and Mono in a variety of mixes. Connecting the pieces of the Service Oriented Architecture design using WCF. Testing some setups showed me another difference between dotNET and Mono. The returntype of an operation … Continue reading

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BasicHttpBinding blocking under Mono

Hosting services in Mono using the BasicHttpBinding will block incomming requests until the previous request is handled. In dotNET this is not the case. Another difference between dotNET and Mono. I’ll demonstrate this by using a self calling service. See … Continue reading

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WSDL in Mono

Mono can host WCF services and expose the WSDL. To get around the XmlSchema error: Named item http://your/contract/here was already contained in the schema object table you need to set MONO_STRICT_MS_COMPLIANT to ‘yes’. Here is how I managed to do … Continue reading

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WCF Streaming with REST on Mono

One of the problems with the mono framework is that streaming is not working properly. I tried to get it working myself and even tried to fix the framework myself. To much trouble as the solution is to use another … Continue reading

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Expose WSDL

Working with my java colleagues I came to love SOAPUI for testing services. Now Microsoft seems to have catched up with the WCF Test Client. A blog post of dotNET colleague Rick van den Bosch made me search for it … Continue reading

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