Configuring a DCS Client Application

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A DCS client application configuration file lets you configure the following items required for a typical DCS client application:

  • Discovery endpoints for communicating with the Discovery Service
  • Scope provider
  • Scope ranker
  • Endpoint selector
  • Context class
  • Policy importers
  • Service endpoint caching and metadata caching
  • Response caching
  • Bindings to connect to the MEX endpoints exposed by services

The topics in this section describe how to configure each of these items.

You use the <cis.serviceModel> custom section of the configuration file to configure many of these items. To use this section, you must add a section group that imports the Microsoft.ConnectedIndustry.ServiceModel.Application.Configuration.ServiceModelSelectionGroup configuration class. The following code shows how to create a section group that specifies this configuration class.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<configuration>
  <configSections>
    <sectionGroup name="cis.serviceModel" type="Microsoft.ConnectedIndustry.ServiceModel.Application.Configuration.ServiceModelSectionGroup, Microsoft.ConnectedIndustry.ServiceModel.Application, version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35">

      ...
    </sectionGroup>
  </configSections>
  ...
</configuration>

In This Section

Configuring Endpoints for Communicating with the Discovery Service

Configuring Multiple Discovery Endpoints

Configuring a Scope Provider, Scope Ranker, and Endpoint Selector

Configuring the Context Class

Configuring Policy Importers

Configuring Service Endpoint and WS-Metadata Caching

Configuring a Client Application to Support Response Caching

Configuring MEX Endpoints