I can't see any template to start a WCF project (I do see ones for WPF amongst other things). Is this because I don't need a template, or because it's missing in Express, or because I'm looking in the wrong place?
See How to add WCF templates to Visual Studio Express? - although that question relates to VS2008 it may help.
It's a template in the Web Developer version.
"WCF RIA Services Class Library" and "WCF Service Application" are both listed there.
I think I understand why Microsoft are packaging the WCF projects with the Web Developer version but it an arbitrary distinction. I can't see why they don't include them in both applications.
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I'm using visual basic 2010 express as my IDE, i need to use WCF to create a client-server system, but i can't find the WCF service library, it's not shown as template and i can't find a place to download it, i've seen a few videos of people with visual studio (not visual basic) using WCF, is that the problem?
it seems like WCF is not available to VB 2010, I'll have to swap to VS
I need to develop an application for my distributed computing class, with one central server and multiple graphical clients. I was thinking of trying WCF for this, since I am already familiar with making .NET standalone desktop applications using Windows Forms or WPF.
Since I have never worked with WCF before, I am trying to follow a tutorial posted on MSDN, which has defining a service contract as its first major step.* Part of this involves creating a WCF Service Library project, which is supposed to be available as a template under the language of my choice (I am going to use C# here). However, I do not see this project template listed as an option in the new project dialog, and looking for WCF in the search bar returns no results.
How can I make this project template available for use in Visual Studio 2017?
* It should probably be noted that the tutorial mentions that it is written with Visual Studio 2012 in mind. Has anything changed since then that I should be aware of as far as the tutorial is concerned?
Open the installer, choose Individual Components and scroll down to Development Activities. Check the WCF checkbox:
I ended up re-running the Visual Studio Installer to modify my current setup. WCF is not explicitly listed anywhere, but I figured it might have been included as part of the .NET Core or ASP.NET workloads (which were not marked for installation the first time around). After adding these workloads to my installation and restarting Visual Studio 2017, I can now see the WCF project templates listed under C#.
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I am doing a Plural Sight tutorial on WCF and they are using the WCF Service Library (as opposed to application.)
When I go to Add new project there is no WCF Service Library. Not under any of the .NET versions.
I am using Visual Studio 2013 for Web Express.
Any one know how I can get it?
Thanks
You can find it under Templates WCF.
( Go to New Project->Installed-->Templates-->WCF)
It gives errors when I refer Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration; Microsoft.Office.Server dlls in a WCF service application. It does not identified the added assemblies. How to resolve this issue?
In which .NET Framework Version is your WCF service written? SharePoint 2010 is implemented using .NET FX 3.5, so you can only reference SharePoint Assemblies if your targeting the same FX Version.
Your WCF service also has to run on a SharePoint box, it's not possible to reference a SharePoint related assembly on a non SharePoint machine.
How does your reference looks like? You've to reference the Assemblies from the ISAPI folder within SharePoint Root (which should be Program Files\Common files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\ISAPI\ by default)
I am about to start a project which consumes third party web services. Because of a legacy system, I am told that I can only use Visual Studio 2005/.NET 2.0. (Though I would have preferred Visual Studio 2008 on .NET 3.5)
My understanding is that WCF was released with .NET 3.0. So is there any possibility to use WCF on Visual Studio 2005 by using just the WCF assemblies of .NET 3.0? I will then try to convince them that it is just like using external framework which doesn't disturb anything.
You can read here the steps how to setup WCF in VS 2005
http://blogs.msdn.com/jmeier/archive/2007/10/15/how-to-create-a-hello-world-wcf-service-using-visual-studio.aspx
or
Download WCF templates for VS 2005
http://blog.stevienova.com/2007/02/25/net-30-wpfwcf-templates-for-vs2005/
and install .net framework 3.0
Here are some useful links for WCF Extensions and for other useful information.
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/wcf/thread/b297421e-5030-47e2-96e1-6d1d9920c9c7/
http://forums.asp.net/t/1331127.aspx
Good Luck!
try this: http://www.zdnet.co.uk/downloads/developer-tools/2007/08/21/the-visual-studio-2005-extensions-fornet-framework-30-wcf-and-wpf-november-2006-ctp-3-39328336/
I hope this helps!