Debugging a WCF Service Using a 32 Bit Dll

Recently I was involved in a problem where we had a WCF service referencing a 32 bit dll. The service was set to to “Start WCF Service Host when debugging another project in the same solution”. Unfortunately that ended up with an exception. Could not load file or assembly ‘My32BitLib, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null’ or one… Continue reading Debugging a WCF Service Using a 32 Bit Dll

Using and Disposing of WCF Clients

Designing an interface always requires careful considerations of how it will be used. Scott Meyers elegantly catches the entire problem in one sentence in his book Effective C++: Make interfaces easy to use correctly and hard to use incorrectly. The people at Microsoft who were in charge for the WCF client code generation either hadn’t read… Continue reading Using and Disposing of WCF Clients