What is CoreWCF?

CoreWCF is a port of the service side of Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) to .NET Core. The goal of this project is to enable existing WCF services to move to .NET Core.

Package Status

The latest released packages can be found at NuGet.org:

Package	NuGet Stable	Downloads
CoreWCF.ConfigurationManager
CoreWCF.Http
CoreWCF.Kafka
CoreWCF.Kafka.Client
CoreWCF.MSMQ
CoreWCF.NetNamedPipe
CoreWCF.NetTcp
CoreWCF.Primitives
CoreWCF.RabbitMQ
CoreWCF.RabbitMQ.Client
CoreWCF.Templates
CoreWCF.UnixDomainSocket
CoreWCF.WebHttp

Community Packages

The latest CoreWCF extension released packages from community can be found at NuGet.org:

Package	NuGet Stable	Downloads
AWS.CoreWCF.Extensions
AWS.WCF.Extensions

Code Quality

Announcements

To keep up to date on what's going on with CoreWCF, you can subscribe to the announcements repo to be notified about major changes and other noteworthy announcements.

How do I get started?

• Install the Nuget packages listed above, either via the Package Manager Console or the UI.
• See Walkthrough for a step by step guide to creating a service and referencing it from a client project.
• See Testing for running unit and integration tests in your development environment.
• The Samples repo has examples for multiple scenarios.
• The Blog has details on the design philosophy and a deep dive into the features are included in each new release.

Use CoreWCF project templates (dotnet CLI or VisualStudio)

• Install CoreWCF project templates, create a directory for your project and cd inside the directory and initialize your project

dotnet new install CoreWCF.Templates 
dotnet new corewcf --name MyService

• CoreWCF Service project template creates a minimal ASP.NET Core web application thats exposes the well-known WCF default service using a BasicHttpBinding. It supports the following arguments:
  • --framework: net8.0 (default), net6.0, net48, net472 and net462 are valid values.
  • --use-program-main: whether to turn off ASP.NET Core minimal API hosting. This option only affects projects targeting .NET as .NET Framework requires a Startup and a Program class.
  • --no-https: whether to turn off HTTPS and use BasicHttpSecurityMode.None. Default is HTTPS enabled using BasicHttpSecurityMode.Transport.
  • --no-wsdl: whether to turn off WSDL metadata feature.
  • --use-operation-invoker-generator: whether to turn on OperationInvokerGenerator feature.

Development Builds

There are pre-release packages available for development builds of main from a NuGet feed hosted in Azure DevOps. You can download the packages by adding the following package source to your list of feeds using the dotnet CLI.

dotnet nuget add source https://pkgs.dev.azure.com/dotnet/CoreWCF/_packaging/CoreWCF/nuget/v3/index.json

If you are using a nuget.config file with only the default nuget.org package source, after adding the CoreWCF feed it would look like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<configuration>
  <packageSources>
    <clear />
    <add key="nuget.org" value="https://api.nuget.org/v3/index.json" />
    <add key="CoreWCF" value="https://pkgs.dev.azure.com/dotnet/CoreWCF/_packaging/CoreWCF/nuget/v3/index.json" />
  </packageSources>
</configuration>

How do I contribute?

Please see the CONTRIBUTING.md file for details.

License, etc.

This project has adopted the code of conduct defined by the Contributor Covenant to clarify expected behavior in our community. For more information see the .NET Foundation Code of Conduct.

CoreWCF is Copyright © 2019 .NET Foundation and other contributors under the MIT license.

.NET Foundation

This project is supported by the .NET Foundation.