Essential Windows Communication Foundation: For .NET Framework 3.5
by Steve Resnick, Richard Crane, Chris Bowen
Preface
WINDOWS COMMUNICATION FOUNDATION (WCF) is the unified programming model for writing distributed applications on the Microsoft platform. It subsumes the prior technologies of ASMX, .NET Remoting, DCOM, and MSMQ and provides an extensible API to meet a wide variety of distributed computing requirements. Prior to WCF, you needed to master each of those technologies to select the right approach for a particular distributed application requirement. WCF simplifies this considerably by providing a unified approach.
XML Web Services is the most common technique for distributed computing in modern applications. They’re used to expose technical and business functions on private or public networks. Sometimes they use the SOAP specification, sometimes ...
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