Visual Basic 2015 Unleashed

Introducing Windows Communication Foundation

WCF is a technology that enables data and information exchange between services and clients through messages. The service exposes information through the network and is nothing but a .NET assembly. Then the client receives that information and can send back other information or data. In this section, you learn how data exchange between the service and clients works before creating your first WCF service. This is important because you need to know some fundamentals about WCF infrastructure before putting your hands on the code. If you ever developed .NET Web Services (.asmx), you’ll notice several similarities with WCF, at least in the implementation. However, several things under the hood make WCF ...