WCF MSDN Articles

• Workflow Services

• Describes how to create and configure a workflow service.

• Endpoints: Addresses, bindings, and contracts

• Describes how to control multiple aspects of a service.

• Data transfer and serialization

• Describes how to make adjustments to the serialization of data for interoperability or future compatibility.

• Session, instantiation, and concurrency

• Describes the instance and session patterns of WCF and how to choose the correct schema for your application.

• Transport in Windows communication Foundation

• Describes how to configure the transport layer, which is the lowest level of the channel stack.

• Queues and reliable sessions

• Describes queues, which on behalf of the receiving application store messages from the sending application, and then forward those messages to the receiving application.

• Transactions in WCF

• Describes how to create a transaction operation that can be rolled back when needed.

• Windows Communication Foundation Security

• describes how WCF security can help you create applications that have confidentiality and integrity. You can also use authentication and authorization because they are part of the auditing feature.

• Peer Network

• Describes how to create peer services and clients.

• Meta data

• Describes the metadata architecture and format.

• Client

• Describes how to create clients for various access services.

• Bearing

• describes the hosting. a service can be hosted by another application, or it can be self-hosted.

• Interoperability and integration

• Describes how to use WCF to extend existing logic instead of rewriting logic when you have a significant investment in component-based application logic that is hosted in COM +.

• WCF Web HTTP programming model

• Describes the WCF Web programming model, which enables developers to expose WCF service operations to non-SOAP endpoints.

• WCF Federation

• Describes support for a federated source that can be easily exposed from a WCF service.

• AJAX Integration and JSON support

• Describes support for the ASP. NET asynchronous JavaScript and XML (Ajax) and JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) data formats, which enable WCF services to expose operations to AJAX clients.

• WCF Discovery

• Describes support for discovering services at run time by using the Ws-discovery protocol in an interoperable manner.

• Routing

• Describes the routing service.

WCF MSDN Articles