WCF extension for legacy binary TCP protocol

NEW POST: duplex only?

Lyndon — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 07:03:13 GMT

Thank you for creating this extension. It is exactly what i need as I've been looking for a way to communicate with legacy tcp clients/servers.
One question: your documentation states in section 2.21 that "This implementation supports duplex". Can you give a brief explanation of what it might take to extend the code to allow request/reply and simplex transactions?

thanks,
Lyndon

UPDATED WIKI: Home

heinrichg — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 05:29:39 GMT

Resource Page Description
A new software system is being build based on a SOA approach. Unfortunately, at least one client is a legacy mainframe socket application with a positional message format. The traditional approach for this problem is to write custom threading and socket code. This often leads to unreliable and hard to maintain code that lacks flexibility to support additional message protocols in a coherent manner.

This sample code and whitepaper explores how to utilize Windows Communications Foundation’s (WCF) extensibility to have instant support for correct threading and additional services and channels.

CREATED RELEASE: 1.0 (Feb 06, 2008)

Thu, 07 Feb 2008 05:28:04 GMT

The zip file contains both the source code and a whitepaper discussing key coding points.