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Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is a Microsoft framework for developing service-oriented and distributed applications on the .NET Framework. It provides multiple messaging patterns, transport and encoding options, and extensible behaviors for secure, reliable communication. It remains relevant in many enterprise legacy integration scenarios.
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WCF is a .NET framework for service-oriented communication between applications over different transports and message protocols.
Microsoft introduced Windows Communication Foundation with .NET Framework 3.0 in 2006. WCF combined previously separate distributed-application technologies into one configurable communication model.
A service publishes contracts for operations and data. Bindings define transport, encoding, and security; a client uses a generated proxy to call the service.
It describes available operations and data types.
It determines transport, message format, and security.
It combines an address, contract, and binding.
WCF helps integrate distributed .NET applications through explicit contracts and interchangeable communication paths.
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