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Parsing XML with multiple namespaces

You may come across a situation when you will have to read a XML document containing name spaces and assign values to it. Here is sample which includes multiple namespaces with SOAP envelope xml document. [More]

Error: A call to SSPI failed

If you are configuring your client application to use WCF net TCP binding, you may come across the following error. A call to SSPI failed, see inner exception.The target principal name is incorrect [More]

Pros & Cons of Designing Application using OOA vs. SOA

In many organization, it is asked how would we benefit by taking this particular approach of Designing and Developing Application. It can be a brand new application or porting a legacy code. In most cases organization wants a quick solution to address the immediate need, some may come back later and rework in a phased approach but some just keep moving with quick and dirty solutions until a situation demand for real upgrade or rewrite. [More]

Error: The underlying connection was closed

This is one of the most interesting error you may come across specially when using WCF Services. It will give you no detail, just go figure out - The underlying connection was closed: The connection was closed unexpectedly. So what to do? Most likely you have dataset size issue which is going back and forth between different tiers. For the security and performance reasons you should always limit the size. But if you are required to pass big chunk of data, you have to change the size to it’s maximum. So how do we do it? [More]

WCF Diagnostics

Have you seen weird error messages using WCF Services and unable to figure out easily as what’s going on? Add the following diagnostics configuration in you config file under configuration section, may be at the bottom. It will generate a file named “App_tracelog.svclog”, you can open as XML file and read the info and may be able using trace the problem. [More]