Category Archives: WCF

System.ServiceModel.ServiceActivationException when EnsureCertificateCanDoKeyExchange (netTcpBinding only)

Posted on May 17, 2011 by

This was a strange problem. I had a service with two endpoints, one with basicHttpBinding and one with netTcpBinding, both using transport security with certificates. If I tried to browse the service using IE I got a ServiceActivationException, and looking … Continue reading →

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Securing a WCF Service in Windows Azure with SSL

Posted on February 23, 2011 by

It is easy to find articles on how to create https (SSL) endpoints in Windows Azure services, e.g. this one. But I didn’t find information on how to configure the actual service, so I had to experiment. Here is a … Continue reading →

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Using a WCF Custom Instance Provider

Posted on February 3, 2010 by

I recently developed a couple of WCF services that I wanted to share some common data, which I stored to and read from an XML file using standard serialization. (I didn’t want the trouble of setting up a database and … Continue reading →

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System.ServiceModel.CommunicationException: The socket connection was aborted.

Posted on December 17, 2009 by

I recently encountered this misleading error from WCF: System.ServiceModel.CommunicationException: The socket connection was aborted. This could be caused by an error processing your message or a receive timeout being exceeded by the remote host, or an underlying network resource issue. … Continue reading →

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