Understanding Service Contracts
Service contracts, one of the Cs in the ABCs of WCF, are what are advertised to the consumers of your services. This advertisement generally takes place through a schema and a contract definition that supports a standardized method for publishing the service contract (along with data contracts). Today, that schema is either a Web Services Description Language (WSDL) contract or a WS-MetadataExchange (MEX) contract. These formats are industry-supported, open specifications. These specifications are located at the following locations:
WSDL AND WS-METADATAEXCHANGEWSDL is an XML Schema-based description of supported operations and messages ... |
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