Thursday, 11 August 2016

WCF - Overview

WCF stands for Windows Communication Foundation. The elementary feature of WCF is interoperability. It is one of the latest technologies of Microsoft that is used to build service-oriented applications. Based on the concept of message-based communication, in which an HTTP request is represented uniformly, WCF makes it possible to have a unified API irrespective of diverse transport mechanisms.

WCF was released for the first time in 2006 as a part of the .NET framework with Windows Vista, and then got updated several times. WCF 4.5 is the most recent version that is now widely used.

A WCF application consists of three components:

  • WCF service,
  • WCF service host, and
  • WCF service client.

WCF platform is also known as the Service Model.


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