Visual Basic 2015 Unleashed

Summary

Windows Communication Foundation is a unified programming model for distributed applications that share information across networks. In this chapter, you got an introductory overview and then learned the basics about metadata. You learned that WCF services expose endpoints to be accessible from clients and that each endpoint exposes the ABC (Address-Binding-Contract). The contract is a .NET interface (marked with the ServiceContract attribute) that establishes service operations that can be consumed by clients. Services expose information and data through a class that implements the contract, which is the main entry point in the service. WCF services can also expose objects marked with the DataContract attribute and that represent data ...