Summary

In this chapter, you have examined some of the internal mechanisms that the WCF runtime uses to send and receive messages. You have seen how to create bindings in code and how to use a ServiceHost object to create a channel for listening for requests. You have also seen how to use a ChannelFactory object in a client application for sending requests and receiving responses. You have learned how you can use a message inspector to examine the messages flowing from the channel stack into a service and how to create a service behavior for modifying the way in which the WCF runtime manages a service. You have also examined ways of sending messages from a client to a service if you don’t have access to a proxy class generated by using the svcutil utility: you can create your own proxy or you can use the low-level messaging interface.