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Most WCF services hosted in a live environment if not configured for handling heavy simultaneous requests give a Denial of Service Error, better known as DoS attacks. To prevent these from happening we have to configure the throttling behavior and some attributes of the ServiceHost.
Microsoft .net framework 3.5 introduced the Language Integrated Query (Linq) feature. Linq provides a set of query operators to filter, join and perform other such data related operations on various types datasources such as lists, dictionaries, datasets etc.
In this article we perform a simple filter operation on a collection of data stored in a list using the traditional foreach loop method and the linq method and compare the performance statistics.
Traditionally services are hosted in IIS. This article describes a method of self hosting and consuming a WCF service without the use of IIS.
The WCF service is declared and configured programmatically i.e without the use of configuration files. Most people would not advice hosting services programmatically. But I believe it is the most compact and easiest way of hosting a WCF service.
I have used two console application one to host the service and second to consume it. The host application demonstrates the use of properly configured self hosted WCF service to transfer large amount of data. However this configuration is not confined to self hosted services it can be applied to any WCF service to improve its performance.