Flickr WCF Part I - Basic Manual WCF Component
This is the first part in a series of blog posts where I see how many different aspects of WCF I can exercise with the same basic component definition. In this article we’re going to define our contracts, create a service, create a IIS host, hand-code a proxy and have a Console app spit out URLs to the 100 most recent photos uploaded to Flickr.
This and subsequent articles assume some basic working knowledge of WCF. If you’ve worked your way through a couple of tutorials, you’ll be fine.
The basic logic of the calling out to Flickr and the extension method I use are described in the previous blog post which is a prelude to this series. Please take a look at that article if you have trouble following along.
For simple cases like the one we’re working on here, I find that hand coding all of the WCF logic is the easiest and most straightforward way to make my code work. Using the svcutil.exe or the Add Service Reference feature in VS 2008 works, but both methods add unnecessary cruft that add to the complexity and understanding of the code. So, here we go!
