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WCF stands for Windows Communication Foundation. It is Microsoft's latest technology that enables applications in a distributed environment to communicate with each other.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. WCF is an umbrella technology that covers ASMX web services, .NET remoting, WSE, Enterprise Service, and System.Messaging. It is designed to offer a manageable approach to distributed computing, broad interoperability, and direct support for service orientation. WCF supports many styles of distributed application development by providing a layered architecture. ABC of Windows Communication Foundation What are the ABCs of WCF? "ABC" stands for address, binding and contract. Address (Where) It specifies the location of the service means, where the service is hosted. The ...

WCF binding is a set of binding elements and each element specify, how the service and client will communicates with each other's. Each binding must have at least one transport element and one message encoding element. Different types of WCF bindings WCF has a couple of built in bindings which are designed to fulfill some specific need. You can also define your own custom binding in WCF to fulfill your need. All built in bindings are defined in the System.ServiceModel Namespace. Here is the list of 10 built in bindings in WCF which we commonly used: Basic binding This binding is provided by the BasicHttpBinding class. It is designed to expose a WCF service as an ASMX web service, so that old clients (which are still using ASMX web service) can consume new service. By default, it uses Http protocol for transport and encodes the message in UTF - 8 text for-mat. You can also use Https with this binding. Web binding This binding is provided by the WebHttpBinding class....