WCF
WCF stands for Windows communication Foundation. WCF is a set of technologies for building distributed systems in which components communicate with one another over networks. WCF webservice is a class that allows its methods to be called by methods on other machines via common data formats and protocols such as XML, JSON and HTTP. In dotnet over-the- network method calls are commonly implemented through Simple Object Accesss Protocol (SOAP) are the Representational State Transfer(REST) architecture.
WCF services basics:
Each WCF service can have one or more end points. An end point is th epath through which a wcf client connects to a wcf service. Every end point has three key components- Address/Binding/Contracts.
WCF Service:
A WCF Service is composed of three parts — a Service class that implements the service to be provided, a host environment to host the service, and one or more endpoints to which clients will connect.
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