March 2011
Intermediate to advanced
467 pages
12h 12m
English
This chapter is about working with the past. That past is based upon component technology created by Microsoft for providing a desktop-oriented protocol for reusing application logic. That technology expanded into a distributed technology that helped better position Microsoft in the enterprise sphere and compete with other existing technologies.
Not without faults, numerous applications were developed based upon this component technology, and many enterprises made large investments in it. To avoid the problems associated with introducing new technology that would force businesses to scrap their original Microsoft-based investments, Microsoft and the WCF team worked hard to provide an evolutionary, as opposed to ...