Summary
In this final chapter you saw how to make the WPF TimeTracker application more loosely coupled by implementing a SOA approach, which was done, in our case, using Windows Communication Foundation.
WCF is a flexible web technology used to design distributed enterprise applications where the business logic and more generally a specific component or set of components need to be shared over the network to many clients and different applications.
The mechanism of WCF is complex and requires dedicated study, but the following statement summarizes the basics:
In WCF there are two major actors. One is a host that is in charge of exposing one or more services using one or more endpoints; the endpoint specifies how the data should be exposed by ...
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