what is proxy and what is the purpose in WCF ?

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Santosh Yadav · Answer

Thankyou very much for your reply.

Hamid Khan · Answer

The proxy is a CLR class that exposes a single CLR interface representing the service contract. The proxy provides the same operations as service's contract but also has additional methods for managing the proxy life cycle and the connection to the service. The proxy completely encapsulates every aspect of the service: its location its implementation technology and runtime platform and the communication transport.

Santosh Yadav · Answer

Dear Vithal  You are right. But tell me one thing i.e When we want to use a wcf service in our application than we use the service url. e.g localhost:8562/service2/service2.svc Now tell me what is Proxy server and how and where to use it. And also brief it's advantages. Thanks Santosh

kiran m · Answer

But in wcf we are hosting in server are IIs WAS and self hosting but we are not using proxy server.

Vithal Wadje · Answer

A proxy server is a computer that offers a computer network service to allow clients to make indirect network connections to other network services WCF is the communication technology which is used to intract with remote application