© Andrew Troelsen and Philip Japikse 2017
Andrew Troelsen and Philip Japikse, Pro C# 7, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3018-3_23
Andrew Troelsen1 and Philip Japikse2
(1)Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
(2)West Chester, Ohio, USA
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
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