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title: WCF Metadata Publication and Others
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  display_name: Tomas Restrepo
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wordpress_url: http://winterdom.com/2006/10/wcfmetadatapublicationandothers
date: '2006-10-19 18:11:32 +0000'
date_gmt: '2006-10-19 18:11:32 +0000'
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- WCF
- WinFX
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<p><a href="http:&#47;&#47;blogs.msdn.com&#47;ralph.squillace&#47;">Ralph Squillace</a> posted an <a href="http:&#47;&#47;blogs.msdn.com&#47;ralph.squillace&#47;archive&#47;2006&#47;10&#47;19&#47;quick-wcf-metadata-publication-walkthrough.aspx">walkthrough entry</a> of how metadata publication (MEX + WSDL) is enabled in Windows Communication Foundation. Besides discussing the configuration aspects, he also briefly touches on how those aspects affect the runtime behavior. </p>
<p>This came at a perfect time for me because I spent a few hours yesterday going over the&nbsp;System.ServiceModel assemblies with reflector trying to understand how it was that the metadata endpoints get hooked up to a service, so this helps a bit. I still need to look closely at a few issues before I understand what's going on well enough to&nbsp;try at something similar I've been&nbsp;wanting to play with...</p>
<p>Ralph has also been writing some samples about Sessionless Duplex Services <a href="http:&#47;&#47;blogs.msdn.com&#47;ralph.squillace&#47;archive&#47;2006&#47;10&#47;10&#47;Sessionless-duplex-services_3F00_-No-problem.-Small-issues_2C00_-yes_3B00_-problems_2C00_-no_2E00_.aspx">here</a> and <a href="http:&#47;&#47;blogs.msdn.com&#47;ralph.squillace&#47;archive&#47;2006&#47;10&#47;19&#47;sessionless-duplex-services-part-two-lifetimes-and-contexts.aspx">here</a> which are quite interesting as well.</p>
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<p><span class="TagSite">Technorati:</span> <a href="http:&#47;&#47;technorati.com&#47;tag&#47;Windows+Communication+Foundation" rel="tag" class="tag">Windows Communication Foundation</a>, <a href="http:&#47;&#47;technorati.com&#47;tag&#47;WCF" rel="tag" class="tag">WCF</a><br &#47;><!-- StartInsertedTags: Windows Communication Foundation, WCF :EndInsertedTags --></p></div><!--end_raw--></p>
