WCF Fundamentals

WCF lets developers build service-oriented applications on the Windows platform using a unified programming model. You can use the same service-oriented programming model with WCF to develop outward-facing Web service applications, intranet Web services, peer-to-peer intranet applications, or server-to-server distributed applications. The WCF programming model is flexible because it provides a layered approach to services, based on channels, bindings, contracts, endpoints, and behaviors. Through the layered approach, behaviors are added to an endpoint during configuration, and multiple endpoints with alternative behaviors and bindings can be created in the hosting application. The constant is the programming model—regardless of ...

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