2.1 Overview

Not all protocols included in this overview document are interrelated. The protocols provided by the Microsoft .NET Framework are built on Windows native protocols and other industry-standard protocols. This document focuses on the protocols that map to the .NET Framework distributed technologies to enable network communications. These protocols can be grouped into the following categories:

• Windows Workflow Foundation (WF)

• Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)

• Identity and directory services

• Data access

• ASP.NET

• .NET remoting