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Windows Communication Foundation

WCF (Windows Communication Foundation) allows developers to build distributed and interoperable applications. It provides a unified programming model to create services that can be accessed from various platforms and using different protocols. Without WCF, developers would need to use different technologies like web services or remoting to support different client requirements. WCF addresses this by enabling services to support multiple protocols and message formats to communicate with diverse clients in a common way.

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Windows Communication Foundation

WCF (Windows Communication Foundation) allows developers to build distributed and interoperable applications. It provides a unified programming model to create services that can be accessed from various platforms and using different protocols. Without WCF, developers would need to use different technologies like web services or remoting to support different client requirements. WCF addresses this by enabling services to support multiple protocols and message formats to communicate with diverse clients in a common way.

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Windows

Communication
Foundation
Vyshakh Jayan
What is WCF?
WCF stands for Windows Communication
Foundation and is part of .NET 3.0. WCF is
Microsoft platform for building distributed and
interoperable applications.

What is a distributed application?
In simple terms a distributed application, is an
application where parts of it run on 2 or more
computers. Distributed applications are also
called as connected systems or applications.
Example
A web application running on one machine
and a web service that this application is
consuming is running on another machine.
An enterprise web application may have the
following tiers, and each tier may be running
on a different machine
1. Presentation tier
2. Business tier
3. Data Access tier
Why build distributed applications?
There are several reasons for this
1. An enterprise application may need to use
the services provided by other enterprises.
For example an ecommerce application may
be using paypal service for payments.
2. For better scalability. An enterprise web
application may have Presentation tier,
Business tier, and Data Access tier, and each
tier may be running on a different machine.

What is an interoperable application?
An application that can communicate with any other
application that is built on any platform and using
any programming language is called as an
interoperable application.
Web services are interoperable, where as .NET
remoting services are not. Web services can
communicate with any application built on any
platform, where as a .NET remoting service can be
consumed only by a .net application.
Why should we use WCF?
Let's take this scenario
We have 2 clients and we need to implement a
service a for them.
1. The first client is using a Java application to
interact with our service, so for interoperability this
client wants messages to be in XML format and the
protocol to be HTTP.
2. The second client uses .NET, so for better
performance this client wants messages formatted
in binary over TCP protocol.
Without WCF

To satisfy the first client requirement we end
up implementing an ASMX web service, and
To satisfy the second client requirement we
end up implementing a remoting service
These are 2 different technologies, and have
complete different programming models. So
the developers have to learn different
technologies.
So to unify and bring all these technologies
under one roof Microsoft has come up with a
single programming model that is called as
WCF - Windows Communication Foundation.

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