Sep 11, 2012 · WPF offers developers 2D and 3D graphics support, hardware-accelerated effects, scalability to different form factors, interactive data visualization, and superior content readability. Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is Microsoft’s unified programming model for building service-oriented applications.

May 30, 2012 · Creating a WCF Data Service that exposes the data in the Entity Data Model to a WPF application. Creating a set of data-bound controls by dragging items from the Data Sources window to the WPF designer.

Nov 11, 2009 · WPF and WCF are entirely different. WPF is for rich GUI application. WCF is for service oriented applications. WCF unifies Webserives+ remoting+ message queues+ into a single API. WPF is better choice over Windows forms, though you would have to invest time and efforts into it. WPF and WCF would solve different business problems. –

Mar 10, 2017 · Giving you a complete, thorough answer on how to properly host a WCF service properly in a WPF application is really a bit too broad, but here are some pointers. You have a few major problems with your WPF attempt: You're attempting to host the service on the UI thread, a big no-no in GUI design and programming.

Apr 14, 2010 · It's where Microsoft is going with hosting WCF services and provides you a lot of benefits such as high-speed instrumentation and service management that you don't get out of the box with WCF now. Think about what type of protocol (and consequently WCF bindings) you'll be able to use based upon your network infrastructure and those of your ...

Nov 22, 2011 · For example, you could just build your web-application using Entity Framework, in the same web-application you expose an OData service (WCF Data Service) which provides a RESTful service that your WPF app can use to access the database. This is fairly easy, since WCF Data Services work really nicely with Entity Framework.

Jan 28, 2010 · Expression blend and Animation-->WPF uses DirectX, and DirectX can be used for animation. F. Faster Execution(Hardware Rendering) WPF internally uses DirectX (Hardware rendering) while Winform internally uses GDI (mostly uses Software rendering). There are two ways by which a computer renders display on monitor.

Jan 30, 2018 · WCF does many things; it is an easy way to remote procedure calls between two applications (processes) on one machine, using named pipes; it can be a high volume internal client-server communication channel between .NET components, using binary serialization over TCPIP; or it can provide a standardised cross-technology API, e.g. via SOAP.

Feb 6, 2015 · Does .NET 3.5 (WCF, or other) offer any type of push notification service? I have a server and a client. I want a service to run on the server and if x happens then push a notification to the clien...

Feb 18, 2015 · Follow this by learning the so called ABCs (Address, Binding and Contract) of the WCF framework, or stated differently the basics of WCF. Make sure you understand that a binding is merely a consistent, canned set of choices regarding the transport protocol, message encoding, communication pattern, reliability, security, transaction propagation ...