Windows Communication Foundation

Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is Microsoft’s unified programming model for building service-oriented applications. It enables developers to build secure, reliable, transacted solutions that integrate across platforms and interoperate with existing investments.

In This Section

• Guide to the Documentation
  A set of suggested topics to read, depending on your familiarity (novice to well-acquainted) and requirements.

• Conceptual Overview
  The larger concepts behind WCF.

• Getting Started Tutorial
  A set of walkthrough topics that introduces you to the experience of programming WCF applications.

• Basic WCF Programming
  A set of primer topics that you should understand to become a proficient WCF programmer.

• WCF Feature Details
  Topics that let you choose which WCF feature or features you need to employ.

• Extending WCF
  Topics that describe extending or customizing WCF to suit your unique requirements.

• Guidelines and Best Practices
  Topics that can help you to avoid mistakes and to create reusable applications.

• WCF Administration and Diagnostics
  Topics that describe a set of WCF functionalities that can help you monitor the different stages of an application’s life and diagnose problems.

• WCF System Requirements
  A list of WCF requirements.

• Operating System Resources Required by WCF
  A list of the resources that are provided by the operating system.

• Troubleshooting Setup Issues
  Describes how to troubleshoot WCF setup issues.

• Windows Communication Foundation Glossary
  Glossary terms used in WCF.

• WCF Samples
  Downloadable samples that provide working code projects that demonstrate features and programming techniques for WCF.

• WCF Tools
  Tools that help you to create and debug WCF applications.

• General Reference
  Topics that document the XML elements used to configure services and client applications.

• Feedback and Community
  Information about sending your comments or sharing information with others interested in WCF.

• Windows Communication Foundation Privacy Information (Version 3.0)
  Information on a feature-by-feature basis about what WCF applications reveal about end users.

Reference

System.Runtime.Serialization

System.Runtime.Serialization.Configuration

System.IdentityModel.Claims

System.IdentityModel.Policy

System.IdentityModel.Selectors

System.ServiceModel.Security.Tokens

System.ServiceModel

System.ServiceModel.Channels

System.ServiceModel.Configuration

System.ServiceModel.Security

System.ServiceModel.Description

System.IdentityModel.Tokens

System.ServiceModel.MsmqIntegration

System.ServiceModel.PeerResolvers

System.Xml

System.ServiceModel.Dispatcher

System.IO.Log

System.ServiceModel.Activation

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Last Published: 2010-03-21