This sample demonstrates how to write custom WCF transports. This particular example shows a duplex sessionful transport using TCP that interoperates with WSE 3.0. The sample shows a client calling a WSE 3.0 TCP sample.

Did you know that Windows Vista supports service activation over custom WCF transports? This sample shows you how to make service activation work over a custom transport. In this case the sample transport is UDP. This requires Windows Vista

This sample shows how to build a channel stack and dispatching messages from that stack in a custom way. It does this by implementing a custom service host that derives from ServiceHostBase. This sample requires IIS.

Once you've written all those custom channels you'll want a way to test them. This tool is a general framework for testing channels. It works by taking the binding you provide and creating a channel factory/channel listener and testing send/receive. A real handy way to test basic channel ...

This is an example of a layered channel showing how to transform a duplex session channel to one way session channels. Besides being a good example of how to write a shape-changing channel, it is useful for doing one-way sessions over TCP and Named Pipes.

Adding config support for your custom channel requires writing a lot of boiler plate code that can be tedious to write. This tool automatically generates that code for you from your custom binding element or binding. It's really fabulous!

An example of writing a custom binding using existing transports and encoders. This sample consists of a binding that uses HTTP (or HTTPS) with the WCF binary encoder. This is especially useful in scenarios where you have WCF on both ends but your network or hosting infrastructure requires you to ...

This is an application for finding the very rare Xbox 360 on retail store shelves in the United States. A complete account can be found at https://blogs.msdn.com/craigmcmurtry/

This sample contains a custom channel that will intercept the outgoing message, check whether the result to that message is in the local cache, and if so, generate a response message without sending anything to the server. If the message is sent to the server, the client will cache the response on ...

This February CTP sample uses the flexibility of the layered channel model of WCF to “chunk” (fragment and reassemble) streamed messages as well as enable streaming over arbitrary transports.

WCF allows streaming over some transports, but streams often suffer from dropped connections. ...

This sample extends the channel layer to provide a custom transport and a custom layered channel. The TCP-based transport interops with WSE 3.0. It uses an included Windows Presentation Foundation (aka “Avalon”) client to communicate with the TcpStockService sample in the WSE 3.0 SDK.