Introduction
WCF Address is the one of the measure element of WCF Service Endpoint. It contains the location of the WCF Service. This article describes details about WCF Address and the address format of the different schemes.
Getting Started
The address is the URL that defines the location of the service. The address is a way of letting the client know that where a service is located. in Wcf, every service associated with a unique address. This contains the location of the service and transport schemas.
The address format of WCF Transport schema always follows. [Transport] ://[Domain Name or Machine Name]:[Port]//[Service Name]
WCF Supports following transport schemas
- HTTP
- TCP
- Per Network
- IPC(Inter-Process Communication over named pipes)
- MSMQ
Examples
HTTP Address Format
http://localhost:81/MyService
http://localhost/MyService
net.tcp://localhost:82/MyService
net.tcp://localhost/MyService
IPC Address Format
This address has no port number and communication using named pipes cannot be "cross-machine" (between two machines). Here also a different address format because the IIS address requires a virtual directory name as well as a service (.svc) filename. We can only open a named pipe once per machine and therefore it is not possible for two named pipe addresses to share a pipe name on the same machine.
net.pipe://localhost/MyService
MSMQ address format differs from others.
net.msmq://localhost/private/MyService
net.msmq://localhost/MyService
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