Introduction
Windows Communication Foundation tutorial explains a simple way to understand all the basic principles of WCF Concepts with examples.
WCF stands for "Windows Communication Foundation". WCF is the latest service-oriented technology, which contributes extensively to the .NET Framework 3.0. Features such as Web Services, MSMQ, COM+ are blended to form WCF. WCF Service is a common platform for all the .NET Communication. WCF is a programming platform and run-time system which is used for building, configuring and deploying network-distributed services. WCF supports multiple languages and also multiple platforms.
History
For the first time, Microsoft was introduced WCF as part of the .NET Framework 3.0 version and continued updation up to .NET Framework 4.5 version which is recently being used.
Conceptual
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Below diagram shows different technology combined to from WCF:
