Firstly, my published service’s app.config:

    <bindings>
      <netTcpBinding>
        <binding name="PCFComms" closeTimeout="00:01:00" openTimeout="00:01:00"
          receiveTimeout="23:59:59" sendTimeout="00:01:00">
          <reliableSession ordered="true" inactivityTimeout="23:59:59"
            enabled="false" />
          <security mode="None">
               <transport clientCredentialType="None" />
               <message clientCredentialType="None" />
          </security>
        </binding>
      </netTcpBinding>
    </bindings>
  

I use Visual Studio’s built in service proxy creator, which gives me this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<configuration>
    <system.serviceModel>
        <bindings>
            <netTcpBinding>
                <binding name="PCFComms" closeTimeout="00:01:00" openTimeout="00:01:00"
                    receiveTimeout="23:59:59" sendTimeout="00:01:00" transactionFlow="false"
                    transferMode="Buffered" transactionProtocol="OleTransactions"
                    hostNameComparisonMode="StrongWildcard" listenBacklog="10"
                    maxBufferPoolSize="524288" maxBufferSize="65536" maxConnections="10"
                    maxReceivedMessageSize="65536">
                    <readerQuotas maxDepth="32" maxStringContentLength="8192" maxArrayLength="16384"
                        maxBytesPerRead="4096" maxNameTableCharCount="16384" />
                    <reliableSession ordered="true" inactivityTimeout="23:59:59"
                        enabled="false" />
                    <security mode="None">
                        <transport clientCredentialType="None" />
                        <message clientCredentialType="None" />
                    </security>
                </binding>
            </netTcpBinding>
            <wsDualHttpBinding>
                <binding name="HttpBinding" closeTimeout="00:01:00" openTimeout="00:01:00"
                    receiveTimeout="00:10:00" sendTimeout="00:01:00" bypassProxyOnLocal="false"
                    transactionFlow="false" hostNameComparisonMode="StrongWildcard"
                    maxBufferPoolSize="524288" maxReceivedMessageSize="65536"
                    messageEncoding="Text" textEncoding="utf-8" useDefaultWebProxy="true">
                    <readerQuotas maxDepth="32" maxStringContentLength="8192" maxArrayLength="16384"
                        maxBytesPerRead="4096" maxNameTableCharCount="16384" />
                    <reliableSession ordered="true" inactivityTimeout="23:59:59" />
                    <security mode="None">
                        <message clientCredentialType="None" negotiateServiceCredential="false" />
                    </security>
                </binding>
            </wsDualHttpBinding>
        </bindings>
        <client>
            <endpoint address="net.tcp://10.10.8.192:8700/PCFComms/service"
                binding="netTcpBinding" bindingConfiguration="PCFComms"
                contract="PCFCommsGateway.PCFCommsService" name="PCFComms" />
            <endpoint address="http://10.10.8.192:8701/PCFComms/service"
                binding="wsDualHttpBinding" bindingConfiguration="HttpBinding"
                contract="PCFCommsGateway.PCFCommsService" name="HttpBinding" />
        </client>
    </system.serviceModel>
</configuration>

but I instantiate an instance of the service manually:

            // Create an instance of the NetTcpBinding and set the
            // security mode to none.
            NetTcpBinding myBinding = new NetTcpBinding();
            myBinding.Security.Mode = SecurityMode.None;

            // Create the address string, or get it from configuration.
            string tcpUri = "net.tcp://10.10.8.192:8700/PCFComms/";

            // Create an endpoint address with the address.
            EndpointAddress myEndpointAddress = new EndpointAddress(tcpUri);

            // Create an instance of the WCF client.
            PCFComms = new PCFCommsGateway.PCFCommsServiceClient(new InstanceContext(this), myBinding, myEndpointAddress);
            PCFComms.Open();

I really enjoyed working on this plugin, as I’ve found that too many people are focusing strictly on client-side sorting and paging, passing the entire dataset to the client for presentation.  The sparse server-side options define their grid inside of their jQuery calls, and in my opinion that is not the best place for them.  Currently, MvcContrib has the best way of creating grids that’s in keeping with the spirit of Asp.Net MVC, and I think it’s Grid() extension method is a good starting point for any Asp.Net MVC developer who needs to present tabular data.

In other exciting news, I’m going to be presenting at the Tampa MVC Open-Mic in a few weeks.  I will be demonstrating the Spark View Engine, and how a developer can use it in place of (and frankly, side by side) the standard Asp.Net MVC view engine.  I’ve been using Spark for over a month now (though I’ve been otherwise disengaged the past two weeks), and I think it’s provides a wonderful, syntactic way of writing one’s views without much of the tag spam.  There’s an adage that teaching others about something is a surefire way to boost your own knowledge in a subject, so I can’t wait to get up in front of 75 of Tampa Bay’s best developers and strut my stuff.