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Transports in Windows Communication Foundation

The transport layer is at the lowest level of the channel stack. The main transports used in Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) are HTTP, HTTPS, TCP, and named pipes. The topics in this section discuss choosing among these transports, configuring the transport, and setting tuning properties.

WCF includes additional transports. For information about Message Queuing (also known as MSMQ) transport, see Queues and Reliable Sessions. For information about peer-to-peer transport, see Peer-to-Peer Networking.

In This Section

  • Transport Quotas
    Describes considerations in setting the quotas available in the transport layer.
  • Working with NATs and Firewalls
    Describes how to configure the transport layer when messages are sent or received behind a firewall or when network address translation (NAT) is present.

Reference

HttpTransportBindingElement

HttpsTransportBindingElement

TcpTransportBindingElement

NamedPipeTransportBindingElement

Windows Communcation Foundation Bindings

Extending Bindings

Build Date: 2011-06-25