Chapter 39. Creating and Consuming WCF Services

In This Chapter

• Introducing Windows Communication Foundation

• Implementing WCF Services

• Consuming WCF Services

• Handling Exceptions in WCF

• Hosting WCF Services in Internet Information Services

• Configuring Services with the Configuration Editor

During the last several years, many technologies were developed for distributed applications that communicate over networks. The idea is that client applications can exchange information with a service via a network protocol such as Hypertext Transport Protocol (HTTP) or Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), just to mention some. Among these technologies there are SOAP (an XML-based information exchange system), Microsoft Messaging Queue (a message-based ...

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