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C# 6.0 and the .NET 4.6 Framework, Seventh Edition
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C# 6.0 and the .NET 4.6 Framework, Seventh Edition

by Andrew Troelsen, Philip Japikse
December 2015
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
1704 pages
43h 12m
English
Apress
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CHAPTER 25

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Introducing Windows Communication Foundation

Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is the name of the API designed specifically for the process of building distributed systems. Unlike other specific distributed APIs you might have used in the past (e.g., DCOM, .NET remoting, XML web services, message queuing), WCF provides a single, unified, and extendable programming object model that you can use to interact with a number of previously diverse distributed technologies.

This chapter begins by framing the need for WCF and examining the problems it intends to solve by way of a quick review of previous distributed computing APIs. After ...

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