Getting Started With Windows Communication Foundation
Rob Windsor
Wednesday, April 09, 2008
Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is Microsoft's next-generation platform for building distributed systems. It was released as part of the .NET Framework 3.0 and is designed to consolidate and extend the APIs from previous versions of the Framework (i.e. ASP.NET Web Services, .NET Remoting, Enterprise Services (COM+), and message queuing).
Getting started with WCF isn't difficult, but there are a couple steps along the way that may not be obvious. This article will walk you through the process of creating and consuming two simple services. To achieve this goal, we need to discuss service classes, service hosts, service configuration, and client proxies.
To follow along with the walkthrough, you'll need Visual Studio 2005, the .NET Framework 3.0, and the Visual Studio 2005 extensions for .NET Framework 3.0 (WCF and WPF) installed.
Read the full article at MSDN: Getting Started with Windows Communication Foundation