Highlights of the latest release

With significant investments made in the area of workflow, the following impressive changes outlined were drastically needed to increase adoption. If you have looked at Workflow in the past, the .NET 4.0 Workflow release bears little resemblance to past releases. With dramatic change comes the obvious pitfall of backward compatibility.

Windows Communication Foundation enhancements

The following enhancements are made to WCF in the .NET 4.0 release:

  • Easier configuration: Developers do not like to spend time learning and setting up configuration. In WCF 4.0, default values can be set allowing services to be run without any service-specific confirmation files.
  • Content-based routing service: WCF now has the ability to ...

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