.NET Framework 4.0: Service Discovery with WCF

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In this 24-minute video, you'll learn about how Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) in the .NET Framework 4.0 allows you to build applications and services that can discover other services using UDP multicast messages or a discovery proxy. You'll even learn how to discover services that are implemented with older communications technologies.

See https://channel9.msdn.com/shows/10-4/10-4-episode-19-Service-Discovery-with-WCF.

Highlights:

  • 01:05 How to make your service discoverable.
  • 01:45 How to allow your service to discover other services.
  • 03:35 Running the demo application. However, the user's display name is not friendly.
  • 05:22 Extending the discovered service response to make the user name display in a more friendly format.
  • 07:40 Announcing your service instead of forcing others to find it.
  • 11:00 Service discovery across subnets via a proxy.
  • 18:03 Discovering services that are implemented with older communications technologies.