In a previous article (Implementing a Basic Hello World WCF Service (v4.5)), we have learned how to create a basic WCF Service manually from scratch. In that article, we also manually created a host application, generated the proxy and configuration files, and created a test client to test the WCF Service. You can review that article to learn what a WCF Service is really like under the hood.

Now in this article, we will implement a simple WCF Service using a built-in Visual Studio WCF template. This simple WCF Service will have only one operation, GetProduct. This operation will accept an integer input as the product ID, and connect to a backend database to retrieve the product details for the specified product ID using LINQ to Entities. The Microsoft sample database Northwind will be used for the backend database, and Visual Studio 2012 will be used as the IDE.

In a future article (Concurrency Control of a WCF Service with Entity Framework (v4.5)), we will implement another operation, UpdateProduct, to update a product in the database through the Entity Framework. We will cover concurrency control in that article, and we will create a WPF test client in that article to test the UpdateProduct operation with concurrency support.


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