Introduction to WCF

Windows Communication Foundation (Code named Indigo) is a programming platform and runtime system for building, configuring and deploying network-distributed services. It is the latest service oriented technology; Interoperability is the fundamental characteristics of WCF. It is unified programming model provided in .Net Framework 3.0. WCF is a combined features of Web Service, Remoting, MSMQ and COM+. WCF provides a common platform for all .NET communication.

Advantage

• WCF is interoperable with other services when compared to .Net Remoting,where the client and service have to be .Net.
• WCF services provide better reliability and security in compared to ASMX web services.
• In WCF, there is no need to make much change in code for implementing the security model and changing the binding. Small changes in the configuration will make your requirements.
• WCF has integrated logging mechanism, changing the configuration file settings will provide this functionality. In other technology developer has to write the code.