Windows Communication Foundation Unleashed

Chapter 6. Using the Windows Communication Foundation and the Windows Workflow Foundation Together

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• Introduction

• Consuming Services

• Orchestrating Services

• Exposing Workflows as Services

• Looking Ahead

• References

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Introduction

The Windows Communication Foundation and the Windows Workflow Foundation are naturally complementary to one another. The Windows Communication Foundation provides an elegant way to expose functionality as services, across an enormous number of different protocols and transports, while allowing the developer to focus on the message. Windows Workflow Foundation provides a way to rapidly compose application logic in a declarative fashion, allowing rapid expression of execution logic. ...