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(Intro: Sometimes as part of testing I go to silly lengths to try to point out what I think is going to be a bug in a piece of code I have seen. And frequently when I do this, I am basically wrong, for any of various reasons – it’s a bug according to some world view which is not quite aligned with reality...

This post is part of a series about WCF extensibility points. For a list of all previous posts and planned future ones, go to the index page . We’re now entering the realm of the less used extensibility points for the WCF runtime. Operation selectors could well be left as an internal implementation detail...

This post is part of a series about WCF extensibility points. For a list of all previous posts and planned future ones, go to the index page . Message formatters are the component which do the translation between CLR operations and the WCF Message object – their role is to convert all the operation parameters...

This post is part of a series about WCF extensibility points. For a list of all previous posts and planned future ones, go to the index page . The message inspectors, described in the previous post of this series, allows you complete control over the message going through the WCF stack. They’re very...

This post is part of a series about WCF extensibility points. For a list of all previous posts and planned future ones, go to the index page . The message inspectors are probably the most used extensibility points of the WCF runtime. Anytime you need to log, inspect, modify or completely replace a message...

This post is part of a series about WCF extensibility points. For a list of all previous posts and planned future ones, go to the index page . Before starting on the actual extensibility points for the WCF runtime (first post should be online tomorrow), I decided to write this quick introduction to the...

This post is part of a series about WCF extensibility points. For a list of all previous posts and planned future ones, go to the index page . The first behavior covered in this series is the IServiceBehavior . It can be used to inspect or change the entire service description and runtime. For example...