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Asked: 2026-05-12T21:01:14+00:00

I have a strong preference for working in code, leverage IntelliSense and opening up

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I have a strong preference for working in code, leverage IntelliSense and opening up all of the power of the C# language to work with WCF but I want to make sure that I’m not moving in a direction that ultimately will limit the WCF feature set I can access. My experience is so limited with WCF that I don’t understand the benefits of using the configuration files, especially if you can do everything in code (?).

Note: I’m using .NET 3.5.

Can you do ‘everything’ with WCF programmatically or are configuration files required for the full WCF feature set?

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  1. Editorial Team

    You can do about 99.8% of things in code as well as config.

    Some things can be done only in code – like setting user name and password on a call that requires those two for authentication.

    And there appear to be a few things that can be done in config only – see this other recent SO question for one example.

    But I think, if you prefer code, you should be fine for the vast majority of cases.

    Marc

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