Question

I can handle the process that file part, but before I go crazy, has someone built a simple wcf service & client (running under windows services or IIS) that I can use to upload a file, and download that file back? with the fewest lines of code? (C# or VB)

compression & encryption would be cool, but i’ll layer that on later!!

Thanks!!

Answer 1

You should be able to do this fairly easily. The service contract would probably look like this:

[ServiceContract] public interface IFileService {   [OperationContract]   byte[] ProcessFile(byte[] FileData); } 

The encryption part could be handled natively by WCF using transport level security. I don’t believe that WCF supports compression directly, but you could add that using the GZipStream class.

I have not built a file handling service as you describe, but I have built a service that handles byte array data that is passed back and forth between a WCF client and service. It works just fine.