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What is WCF and WF in .NET? What are its uses? How to start learning it?

Thanks for answers, they are great guideline for me. But I want to ask where should I use thins WCF service? In which scenario we can use it properly?

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WCF = Windows Communication Foundation

A communication-oriented set of APIs and a "runtime" inside .NET to make two (or more) systems talk to one another. It basically replaces ASMX (ASP.NET web services), .NET remoting (object remoting) and a few other communication-related API's and products in the .NET space.

It can and should be used any time two systems (apps, machines) need to exchange information, basically. It's the foundation for all "connected systems".

Your ultimate destination is the MSDN Developer Center for WCF which has a ton of tutorials, articles, sample code, screen casts, videos and much more.

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From MSDN: "Windows Communication Foundation is... a part of the .NET Framework that provides a unified programming model for rapidly building service-oriented applications that communicate across the web and the enterprise."

White Paper on WCF

Good luck!

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I have only a couple of articles here, but they are simple: http://www.singingeels.com/?Category=WCF

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The Windows Communication Foundation (or WCF) is an application programming interface (API) in the .NET Framework for building connected, service-oriented applications.

WCF is meant for designing and deploying distributed applications under service-oriented architecture (SOA) implementation. ** Architechture

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WCF is stand for Windows Communication Foundation. This is great network distributed system developed by Microsoft for communication between applications.Here you can find the good tutorial about WCF.

http://www.wcftutorial.net/

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From WikiPedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Communication_Foundation):

The Windows Communication Foundation (or WCF) is an application programming interface (API) in the .NET Framework for building connected, service-oriented applications.

WCF is meant for designing and deploying distributed applications under service-oriented architecture (SOA) implementation. ** Architechture

** WCF is designed using service oriented architecture principles to support distributed computing where services have remote consumers. Clients can consume multiple services; services can be consumed by multiple clients. Services are loosely coupled to each other. Services typically have a WSDL interface (Web Services Description Language) that any WCF client can use to consume the service, regardless of which platform the service is hosted on. WCF implements many advanced Web services (WS) standards such as WS-Addressing, WS-ReliableMessaging and WS-Security. With the release of .NET Framework 4.0, WCF also provides RSS Syndication Services, WS-Discovery, routing and better support for REST services. Endpoint A WCF client connects to a WCF service via an Endpoint. Each service exposes its contract via one or more endpoints. An endpoint has an address (which is a URL specifying where the endpoint can be accessed) and binding properties that specify how the data will be transferred.

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WCF Stands for Windows Communication Foundation. Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is a framework for building service-oriented applications in .Net. Its an Microsoft Answer to SOA.

Get more interview questions on WCF at: http://interviewmantra.com/category/Windows-Communication-Foundation-(WCF).aspx