| Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is a framework that's help to build service oriented applications or we can say WCF is a programming platform and runtime system for build, configure and deploy network-distributed services. It is the latest service oriented technology comes with .Net Framework 3.0 or latest version.WCF is a combined features of Web Service, Remoting, MSMQ and COM+. WCF provides a common platform for all .NET communication. WCF manily used to transfer asynchronous messages from one service endpoint to another.SOAP is used by default, but the messages can be in any format, and conveyed by using any transport protocol and the messages can be as simple as a single character or we can also sent as XML, or as complex as a stream of binary data. WCF can automatically create metadata to explain applications built using the technology in WSDL, and it also provides a tool for generating clients for those applications from the WSDL.
WCF Helps IN:-
(1)Its provide a secure service to do business transactions.
(2)Its helps in communication or exchange data in real time.
(3)Its helps in chat services which allow communication.
(4)Its helps in logical presentation or visualization of data.
(5) Its helps Silverlight application to poll a service for the latest data feeds.
(6)Its help Windows Workflow Foundation as a WCF service | | |