WCF (Windows Communication Foundation) is a secure, reliable, and scalable messaging platform for developing services in .Net. In WCF, you have a unified programming model that you can leverage for ...

BANGALORE, INDIA: Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is Microsoft's programming model for building service-oriented applications. WCF is a part of .NET framework 3.0 and it unifies the different ...

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WCF (Windows Communication Foundation) is a secure, reliable, and scalable messaging platform for developing services in .Net. This is the second part in the series of articles on WCF best practices.

Asynchronous services are easier to implement with support of the await and async keywords in WCF 4.5. We look at that, as well as contract-first development. There are performance benefits to using ...

WCF supports putting your service contract and operation contract attributes directly in the implementation class, but you should always avoid doing so. Having an interface definition that clearly ...

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My recent column, "Adding WCF Services to Silverlight" (March 2010), focused on the overall Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) structure, not on aspects of the Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) service ...