WCF Architecture Overview
Summary: Get a high-level view of the Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) architecture and its key concepts. Code examples demonstrate WCF contracts, endpoints, and behaviors. (17 printed pages) Introduction This document provides a high-level view of the Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) architecture. It is intended to explain key concepts in WCF and how they fit together. There are a few code examples to further illustrate the concepts, but code is not the emphasis of this document. The rest of this document is organized in two main sections: WCF Fundamentals: Covers key concepts in WCF, terms, and architectural components. Code Examples: Provides a few short code examples intended to illustrate and reify the concepts covered in WCF Fundamentals. WCF Fundamentals A WCF Service is a program that exposes a collection of Endpoint s. Each Endpoint is a portal for communicating with the world. A Client is a program that exchanges messages with one or more Endpoin