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Learning WCF

What is WCF?
Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is a framework for building service-oriented applications.
It is a unified, simplified and optimized evolution of a number of communication technologies into a single  model. [Ref: MSDN]

 Why it is important?
  • Enables you to create service oriented applications. 
  • Provide a unified way to communicate with different system.
  • Developers can focus on designing  data and service contracts without having to make prior decisions on which transport, messaging or security protocols and policies to adopt.
  • Allows one to configure service properties such as transport (http/pipes/tcp/Tibco EMS), security models (any of the W3C standards), compression, encoding, timeouts, etc, without changing ANY code. 

Learning WCF

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I am currently a beginner in WCF. I will keep updating this article as I get more experienced with WCF. Any comments will be highly appreciated.

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