What is WCF in .net?

Question

What is WCF and WF in .net ? What are it uses ? how to start learn it ?

Thanks for answers, they are great guideline for me. but want to ask Where should i use thins WCF service. In which scenario we can use it properly.

Answer 1

From MSDN: "Windows Communication Foundation is... a part of the .NET Framework that provides a unified programming model for rapidly building service-oriented applications that communicate across the web and the enterprise."

White Paper on WCF

Beginners Guide with lots of videos

Good luck!

Answer 2

WCF is stand for Windows Communication Foundation. This is great network distributed system developed by Microsoft for communication between applications.Here you can find the good tutorial about WCF.

http://www.wcftutorial.net/

Answer 3

I have only a couple of articles here, but they are simple: http://www.singingeels.com/?Category=WCF

Answer 4

WCF = Windows Communication Foundation

A communication-oriented set of APIs and a "runtime" inside .NET to make two (or more) systems talk to one another. It basically replaces ASMX (ASP.NET web services), .NET remoting (object remoting) and a few other communication-related API's and products in the .NET space.

It can and should be used any time two systems (apps, machines) need to exchange information, basically. It's the foundation for all "connected systems".

Your ultimate destination is the MSDN Developer Center for WCF which has a ton of tutorials, articles, sample code, screen casts, videos and much more.