Introducing Windows Communication Foundation

WCF is a technology that enables data and information exchange between services and clients through messages. Basically the service exposes information through the network and is nothing but a .NET assembly. Then the client receives that information and can send back other information or data. In this section you learn how data exchange between the service and clients works before creating your first WCF service.

WCF 4

Windows Communication Foundation in .NET Framework 4 is also known as WCF 4, although this is actually the third version. There are some improvements in the new version of WCF, but we focus on them only when required, preferring to illustrate how you implement and consume services ...

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