Chapter 5. WCF Services

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This chapter provides fundamental coverage of the WCF platform in relation to service contract, service logic, service hosting and service consumer development for Web services and REST services.

5.1 Overview

WCF is the fundamental platform for developing service-oriented solutions with .NET. This chapter introduces WCF and the unified programming model it represents. WCF supersedes and unites all of the legacy distributed technologies covered in Chapter 4.

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