For .NET developers, the Microsoft Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is an excellent resource for creating service-based Web applications. Defining web services is relatively easy using WCF; using Visual Studio .NET, you can set up a solution with the interfaces needed for WCF quickly and easily. Actually doing the communication using Ajax, however, requires a client-side component to make and handle the various Ajax calls. Almost all of the examples on the Intertubes(™) use jQuery, but that’s not the only JavaScript toolkit on the market. How would you accomplish these goals if you were developing your service-based applications using the Dojo Toolkit?
It turns out that consuming WCF-based services with Dojo is quite easy to do, and in this post we’ll show you how to do it. For reference, we’ll be using this article from Sridhar Subramanian at C# Corner which shows how to write your WCF-based services, so we won’t be going into the details of the C# component here. Instead, we’ll focus on the client-side code.