CF, commonly known as (Windows Communication Foundation), previously known as

Indigo, is a runtime and a set of APIs (application programming interface) in

the .NET Framework for building connected, service-oriented applications. Given
below are some of the very important WCF Interview Questions (both conceptual
and textual) essential for desired result in any interview.
The most common WCF Interview Questions

Briefly explain what is WCF?

Ans: Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is an SDK (Software development

kit) for developing and deploying services on Windows. WCF provides a runtime
environment for services, enabling you to expose CLR (Common Language Runtime)
types as services, and to consume other services as CLR types.
WCF is part of .NET 3.0 and requires .NET 2.0, so it can only run on systems that
support it.

Name the Contracts in WCF?

Ans: The Contracts in WCF are:
1.

Service Contracts.

2.

Operation Contracts.

3.

Data Contracts.

4.

Fault Contracts.
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What is endpoint in WCF?

Ans: It describes the actual behavior or operation of the service at runtime. It is the
relationship between Address, contract and Binding.

State the address syntax and the different

formats of WCF transport scheme.
Ans: Address syntax of WCF transport scheme:
[transport]://[machine or domain][:optional port] format.

The address formats are as follow:

HTTP Address Format TCP Address Format
IPC Address Format
MSMQ Address Format

Name the three major points in WCF?

Ans: Address, Binding and Contract.
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Define ABC of WTF?

Ans: A Address (Where): Hints us towards the direction of services, like URL
(Uniform Resource Locator).
B Bindings (How): This feature tells us how to find the services or using which
protocols finds the services (SOAP, HTTP, TCT etc.)
C Contracts (What): Contracts are an agreement between the consumer and the
service providers that explains what parameters the service expects and what value
it returns.

Name the 3 types of transaction manager WCF

supports?
Ans: Following are the 3 types of transaction manager WCF supports:
1.

Light Weight

2.

WS- Atomic Transaction

3.

OLE Transaction

What are Duplex Contracts in WCF?

Ans: WCF Services can communicate with client through a called duplex messaging
pattern commonly known as callback. Duplex messaging in WCF can be done over
different transports, like TCP, Named Pipes and even HTTP. This is collectively known
as Duplex Contracts in WCF.
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What is WCF- One Way Contract?

Ans: One Way Contract in WCF are methods/operations which are invoked on the
service by the client or the server in which either of them do not expect a reply back.
Ex: If a client invokes a method on the service then it will not expect a reply back
from the service.

What is InstanceContextMode in WCF?

This particular property value in WCF indicates creation of new service objects.
Following are the 3 property values of InstanceContextMode:
1. Per Call:
2. Per Session:
3. Single:
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Define proxy for WCF Service?

Ans: A proxy is a class by which a service client can interact with the service. By the
use of proxy in the client application one is able to call the different methods
exposed by the service.

Mention 4 differences between XMLSerializer and

the DataContractSerializer?
Ans: The points of differences are as follows:
1.

DataContractSerializer is the default serializer for WCF, XML Serializer is not.

2.

DataContractSerializer faster compared to XMLSerializer.

3.

DataContractSerializer is basically for very small, simple subset of the XML

info-set.

4.

XMLSerializer is used for complex schemes whereas DataContractSerializer

are used for comparatively simple schemes.
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What are
Contract?

the

characteristics

of

WCF

Data

Ans: Following are the characteristics of WCF Data Contract:

- A data contract is defined by using a Data Contract Attribute on a class or structure.
- Members of the data structure which will be used by the service need to be marked
with the Data Member Attribute.
- Implementation of the same interface by different classes is made possible as only
the selected members will be transferred between the service and the client.

Decode the following code

Try
{
Response, redirect (1.aspx);
}
Catch
{
Response, redirect (2.aspx);
}
Finally
{

Response, redirect (3.aspx);

}
Ans: The Output will redirect the page to 3.aspx.
Explanation- Try block will throw a redirect error but after execution of the catch box
the control will pass to the finally block which will redirect the page to 3.aspx.