Chapter 41. Creating and Consuming WCF Services

During the years several technologies were developed for distributed applications that communicate over networks. The idea is that client applications can exchange information with a service via a network protocol such as the Http or TCP, just to mention some. Among these technologies there are SOAP (an Xml-based information exchange system), Microsoft Messaging Queue (a message-based system), the well-known Web services, and the .NET Remoting ...

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