C# Tutorial - Windows Communication FoundationWCF is a set of .NET technologies for building and running connected systems. It focuses on connecting XML to application that are built using .NET languages supported by Microsoft. To support this cross-language communication, WCF uses the extensible Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP). The infrastructure and APIs that are used to create systems that send messages between services and clients can also be used to create applications that communicate with other applications on the same computer system or on a system that resides in another company and is accessed over the Internet. WCF is based on message-based communication, so anything that can be modelled as a message (for example, a HTTP request) can be represented in a uniform way in the programming model. This enables a unified API across different transport mechanisms.
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