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• ChannelFactory, IDisposable and Handling Faults

  Jan 23 2012 2:27 AM

  In my last post (Poor Man's Publish-Subscribe WCF Service) I used the ChannelFactory to build a communication channel that I could use to call a WCF service. There's something about that implementation that I wanted to explain in more detail. Notice the try-catch block surrounding the using statement: Continue reading...

• Poor Man's Publish-Subscribe WCF Service

  Jan 19 2012 7:35 PM

  I'm going to describe a WCF implementation of a publish-subscribe pattern that is used here at a medium-sized organization where I'm a lead developer. For reasons I won't go into MSMQ and the cloud were not options for us. Yet we needed durability, reliability, and all of the goodness that comes with a service bus. So we rolled our own "poor man's" pub sub (or observer pattern) service a simplified version of which I'll describe here. Continue reading...