WCF is an SDK for building service-oriented applications on Windows, letting you use classic CLR programming constructs, such as classes and interfaces, to deploy and consume services. The programming model is declarative and largely attribute-driven.
by Juval Lowy
June 19, 2006
indows Communication Foundation (WCF) provides a runtime environment for your services, enabling you to expose CLR types as services and to consume services as CLR types.
Although in theory you can build services without it, in practice, WCF significantly simplifies this task. WCF is Microsoft's implementation of a set of industry standards defining service interactions, type conversion, marshaling, and various protocols' management. Because of that, WCF provides interoperability between services, and it promotes productivity, including the essential off-the-shelf plumbing required by almost any application. This article describes the essential concepts and building blocks of WCF and its architecture, enabling you to build simple services. Future articles in this series will address specific aspects, such as transaction management and security.
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indows Communication Foundation (WCF) provides a runtime environment for your services, enabling you to expose CLR types as services and to consume services as CLR types.
