am newbie to both WCF and Named pipes. I need a way to securely communicate between a UI application and Windows Service on the same machine. Here's what I need: - Client UI application needs to s...

I have a following configuration in my wcf service <endpoint address="" binding="netNamedPipeBinding" contract="WcfWithNamedPipe.IService1" bindingConfiguration="WcfWithNamedPipe.netNamedP...

I noticed that 2147483647 seems to be a popular choice for maxReceivedMessageSize but is this the limit?

I am the developer of a WCF service. My test clients work very well with it. But when it comes to real clients (using the same client proxy), it fails. The same WCF service works with netTcpBinding...

I would like to know if netNamedPipeBinding is considered safe: On one hand NetNamedPipeBinding implements security only on the transport Layer and it uses NTLM (source) that is no longer recommen...

I am trying to run multiple WCF Service hosting apps on the same Machine. I want to run multiple Applications - not multiple services in one application. var host = new ServiceHost(typeof(MyClass...

I'm getting the "There was no endpoint listening at net.pipe://localhost" error as described in other places but I cannot seem to find a real answer. This is a great identifier of the problem: htt...

Given: - the application - desktop GUI (WPF) .NET app - windows service watching for application (.NET also) The windows service periodically "pings" application to get sure it's healthy (and i...

I have an application consisting of several WCF services, some of which are implemented in Workflow Foundation (.NET 3.5), others just plain C#. These services communicate with each other over a ne...

I have been trying to get up to speed on Named Pipes this week. The task I am trying to solve with them is that I have an existing windows service that is acting as a device driver that funnels dat...

Intro: I successfully implemented a WCF Service hosted in a Windows Service a few days ago. The community here at StackOverflow helped me with the WSDL exposure here. I thank you once again. Howev...