| Author: seema 16 Oct 2009 | Member Level: Gold | Rating:  Points: 2 |
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms735119.aspx
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| Author: ranipriya 16 Oct 2009 | Member Level: Gold | Rating: Points: 2 |
WCF is Windows Communication Foundation
It is an application programming interface in the .NET Framework for building connected, service-oriented applications.
Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) provides a unified framework for rapidly building service-oriented applications that makes it easy to build and consume secure, reliable, and transacted Web services.
WCF’s single programming model unifies the capabilities in ASMX, WSE, Remoting, COM+, and MSMQ; therefore developers need to learn only one programming model.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Communication_Foundation
also http://www.microsoft.com/net/WindowsCommunicationFoundation.aspx
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| Author: satya 16 Oct 2009 | Member Level: Diamond | Rating: Points: 2 |
Windows Communication Foundation (formerly code-named "Indigo") is a set of .NET technologies for building and running connected systems. It is a new breed of communications infrastructure built around the Web services architecture.
What Is Windows Communication Foundation?
The global acceptance of Web services, which includes standard protocols for application-to-application communication, has changed software development. For example, the functions that Web services now provide include security, distributed transaction coordination, and reliable communication. The benefits of the changes in Web services should be reflected in the tools and technologies that developers use. Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is designed to offer a manageable approach to distributed computing, broad interoperability, and direct support for service orientation.
WCF simplifies development of connected applications through a new service-oriented programming model. WCF supports many styles of distributed application development by providing a layered architecture. At its base, the WCF channel architecture provides asynchronous, untyped message-passing primitives. Built on top of this base are protocol facilities for secure, reliable, transacted data exchange and broad choice of transport and encoding options.
The typed programming model (called the service model) is designed to ease the development of distributed applications and to provide developers with expertise in ASP.NET Web services, .NET Framework remoting, and Enterprise Services, and who are coming to WCF with a familiar development experience. The service model features a straightforward mapping of Web services concepts to those of the .NET Framework common language runtime (CLR), including flexible and extensible mapping of messages to service implementations in languages such as Visual C# or Visual Basic. It includes serialization facilities that enable loose coupling and versioning, and it provides integration and interoperability with existing .NET Framework distributed systems technologies such as Message Queuing (MSMQ), COM+, ASP.NET Web services, Web Services Enhancements (WSE), and a number of other functions.
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| Author: Ehsan Hafeez 21 Oct 2009 | Member Level: Bronze | Rating: Points: 2 |
WCF (Window Communication Foundation) is a communication interface to build the service oriented application. using this technology fast, reliable, secure and distributed application can be build.
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| Author: atulpatel 06 Nov 2009 | Member Level: Gold | Rating: Points: 2 |
WCF is unified programming model which is used to develop service oriented architecture.
You can find more details:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms734712.aspx
Thanks,
Atul
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