If you load an xml document with the dom (I tried it with MSXML and System.Xml.XmlDocument) that has the node content set to > (greater than) the value is escaped by the parser. If you specify an xml (containing the greater than sign) as the node content it isn't escaped. So if you have <root>></root> you'll get <root>&gt;</root> if you have  <root>><foo /></root> you'll get (the same) <root><foo /></root> Strange!

A friend of mine asked me some help to troubleshoot accessing a device in his home network from internet. I'm not an expert of networks but with the help of www.portforward.com and a simple c# winform I succesfully manage to made things work. The program listen on the specified port and responds with a simple hello message and the ip of the caller. This is handy if you don't know what the service should reply and you want to be sure that the problem didn't lie on the service not replying correctly. The program uses HttpListener that leverage the http.sys...

Below the steps to follow if you need to connect an IIS hosted WCF client to a IIS hosted WCF server via a WSHttpBinding with transport security using client certificates. On the server implement your service and configure like the following... 1: <system.serviceModel> 2: <behaviors> 3: <endpointBehaviors /> 4: <serviceBehaviors> 5: <behavior name="MyBehavior"> 6: <serviceMetadata httpGetEnabled="false" httpsGetEnabled="false" /> 7: ...