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Subelement

Meaning in Life

behaviors

WCF supports various endpoint and service behaviors. In a

nutshell, a behavior allows you to further qualify the functionality

of a host or client. 

bindings

This element allows you to fine-tune each of the WCF-supplied

bindings (basicHttpBinding, netMsmqBinding, etc.) as well as specify

any custom bindings used by the host.

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Subelement

Meaning in Life

client

This element contains a list of endpoints a client uses to connect to

a service. Obviously, this is not terribly useful in a host’s *.config

file.

comContracts

This element defines COM contracts enabled for WCF and COM

interoperability.

commonBehaviors

This element can only be set within a machine.config file. It can be

used to define all of the behaviors used by each WCF service on a

given machine. 

diagnostics

This element contains settings for the diagnostic features of WCF.

The user can enable/disable tracing, performance counters, and

the WMI provider, and can add custom message filters.

serviceHostingEnvironment

This element specifies if this operation can be the initial operation

in a session.

services

This element contains a collection of WCF services exposed from

the host.