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Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)

Windows Communication Foundation (formerly code-named "Indigo") is a set of .NET technologies for building and running connected systems. It is a new breed of communications infrastructure built around the Web services architecture.

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.NET Framework 3.5 SP1 available for download
The .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 (SP1) delivers several enhancements to WCF including: better support for exposing REST-based services, easier to use tools for developing and debugging services, and significant performance improvements when hosting in IIS7 integrated mode.
Friday, August 08, 2008 3:19:43 PM
Improving Web Services Security: Scenarios and Implementation Guidance for WCF
This guide shows you how to make the most of WCF (Windows Communication Foundation). With end-to-end application scenarios, it shows you how to design and implement authentication and authorization in WCF.
Wednesday, August 06, 2008 11:16:59 AM
PDC2008 Sessions Posted
Find out what will be the technologies you'll soon be using at this year's PDC conference (Oct 27-30 in Los Angeles)
Wednesday, August 06, 2008 11:16:15 AM
geekSpeak: Join a Discussion Like No Other
Tune in throughout August and hear industry experts discuss trends, technologies, and real-world experiences of developers and designers—such as using Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), programming for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, and designing with Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF).
Friday, August 01, 2008 6:00:00 AM

WCF Videos WCF Videos

endpoint.tv: The Total Noob's Guide to WCF - Lesson 1: My First WCF Service
Are you a WCF noob? Don't be ashamed, everyone is a noob at some point. But don't stay that way, learn something so you can shed your noobness. In this episode Ron Jacobs walks you through the process of creating your first WCF service and teaches you the about the ABCs of WCF.

MSDN Webcast: Software Development Life Cycle: Applying Service Orientation to the Development Process (Level 200)
Recorded at Microsoft Tech∙Ed 2008 Developers in Orlando, FL. When you develop a service-oriented application, it would be naive of you to expect that the only things you will do differently will be limited to design and technology. The development process...

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.NET StockTrader 2.0 Sample Application
This application is an end-to-end sample application for .NET Enterprise Application Server technologies that illustrates many of the .NET enterprise development technologies for building highly scalable, rich "enterprise-connected" applications.

More: Basic WCF Programming | WCF Feature Details | Guidelines and Best Practices | Extending WCF

WCF Blogs

This Week in Downloads
New to the web this week on the WF/WCF front: Visual Studio 2008 SP1 (BTW - it shipped! ^_^ ) .... more
Cliff Simpkins
Monday, August 18, 2008 9:07:00 AM
Screencast - Creating your First WCF Service
I'm excited to announce a new series of material that the team will be posting around the WF and WCF... more
Cliff Simpkins
Wednesday, August 13, 2008 8:00:00 AM
Orcas SP1 Improvement: Asynchronous WCF HTTP Module/Handler for IIS7 for Better Server Scalability
(Copied from https://blogs.msdn.com/wenlong/archive/2008/08/13/orcas-sp1-improvement-asynchronous-wc... more
wdong
Wednesday, August 13, 2008 9:28:00 PM
WCF Request Throttling and Server Scalability
(Copied from http://blogs.msdn.com/wenlong/archive/2008/04/21/wcf-request-throttling-and-server-scal... more
wdong
Wednesday, August 13, 2008 9:21:00 PM
This Week in Downloads - WF & Services
Welcome to this week's installment of my weekly document and download roundup. Even though I was in... more
Cliff Simpkins
Sunday, August 10, 2008 6:01:00 PM
This Week in Downloads - Events
This week had a few videos and a new article go up to MSDN this week: TechEd Online - REST and SO... more
Cliff Simpkins
Sunday, August 03, 2008 11:00:00 AM
PDC2008 Sessions Posted
A bunch of sessions were posted up to the PDC2008 session list very early this morning. While I unde... more
Cliff Simpkins
Friday, August 01, 2008 4:14:55 PM

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Buddhike de Silva
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