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WCF walkthrough

Pavel-Pavel- USMember ✭
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Hi!

In the given WCF walkthrough it is said that we need IIS published service (and silverlight SDK5) to make it work with android (in my case) devices.

I have already had a service that has its own host (a console application) and works via tcp protocol. So I have just added a basicHttpBinding (as it is said in the tutorial) and made a proxy. My proxy class has synchronous methods only (no xxxAsynch nor xxxCompleted) and though it works fine so far.

So I`m interested why this approach is not described as the one between possible ones (because it seems easier as we don`t need to deal with IIS settings directly)? Does it have some disadvantages I haven`t noticed yet or something else?

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  • TomOpgenorthTomOpgenorth CAXamarin Team Xamurai

    Network operations on mobile devices should be asynchronous - otherwise they will end up blocking the UI thread and make the application sluggish and unresponsive.

  • Pavel-Pavel- USMember ✭

    Well, you are right. But I thought of using this service in the non-UI thread to process the data most of which should not deal with UI.

    Anyway, I`ve found this way possible too. Probably there might be some cases when such the approach would be suitable, may be my one too :)

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