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I am trying to find some good tutorials that would show me to create a simple SOAP based service using WCF and deploy it. I have been googling for the past 2 hour and can't seem to find any good resource.. Can anyone help me?
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Normally, a WCF service will use SOAP, but if you build a REST service, clients will be accessing your service with a different architectural style (calls, serialization like JSON, etc.). Exposing a WCF service with both SOAP and REST endpoints, requires just a few updates to the codebase and configuration.
In ASP.NET Development services, SOAP messages are exchanged over HTTP, but WCF services can exchange the message using any format over any transport protocol. Though, SOAP is a default format that WCF uses.
So, yes, WCF supports both . In context with OP: SOAP services: in WCF programming model support interoperability between systems that are built with Java, other platforms, and those that use messaging standards that are supported by Microsoft®.
As for resources: there's the MSDN WCF Developer Center which has everything from beginner's tutorials to articles and sample code.
Also, check out the screen cast library up on MSDN for some really useful, 10-15 minute chunks of information on just about any topic related to WCF you might be interested in.
Also very good are The Service Station articles in MSDN magazine on various aspects of WCF - some more basic like Serialization in WCF or WCF Bindings in Depth, some more advanced and esoteric - but always worth a look!
Update: for learning WCF and SOAP, check out e.g.
and a great many more - there are a ton of tutorial and learnings materials on WCF using SOAP bindings - not just REST stuff for sure!
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