Essential Windows Communication Foundation: For .NET Framework 3.5
by Steve Resnick, Richard Crane, Chris Bowen
Foreword
I’M WRITING THIS foreword in December of 2007, a little more than a year after the first release of Windows Communication Foundation hit the streets as part of .NET Framework 3.0 and less than a month after we shipped significant additions to the platform as part of .NET Framework 3.5. Saying there’s a lot to absorb in those two releases is something of an understatement.
One of the goals of WCF was to unify the programming experience for building all types of distributed applications on the Microsoft platform. We wanted a core set of concepts that were simple and approachable, yet expressive enough to model the underlying semantics of all the technologies we intended to replace. The Microsoft stacks that came before us (ASMX, Remoting, ...
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