Man it has been crazy busy as of late…lots of projects…not enough time. Sorry for the lack of articles!!

Ok…so one of my latest projects has been a bit different. They have an old Access database that they have been using for years as an admin tool to keep track of their clients. A lot of work has been put into this system so they didn’t want to throw it away, but at the same time they wanted to ease the load of the admins by allowing the clients to update their own information over the web.

So basically what they needed was a website that talked to their server and updated their info behind the scenes. Sounds like a job for web service right? Yup, but times are changing with the whole MS web service thing…with .NET 3 and 3.5 the new concept of WCF has been introduced. Now WCF (Windows Communication Foundation) can do A LOT of different stuff, but today I am going to give a quick lesson on how to setup and use WCF services in place of a traditional web service.

Its not all that tricky, and once you get it, you can really expand what a website can do…so lets get started. Read the rest of this entry »