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Basic WCF Programming

This section presents the fundamentals for creating Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) applications.

In This Section

  • Designing and Implementing Services
    Describes how to design and implement a service contract, choose a message exchange pattern, specify a fault contract, and other basic aspects of services.
  • Configuring Services
    Describes how to configure a WCF service to support the contract requirements, customize local runtime behavior, and indicate the address to publish the service.
  • Building Clients
    Describes how to obtain metadata from services, convert that into WCF client code, handle security issues, and build, configure, and host an WCF client.
  • WCF Troubleshooting Quickstart
    Describes some of the most common issues that occur, what you can do to solve them, and where to locate more information about the issue.

Reference

System.ServiceModel

System.ServiceModel.Channels

System.ServiceModel.Description

Windows Communication Foundation

WCF System Requirements

Conceptual Overview

Getting Started Tutorial

Guidelines and Best Practices

Windows Communication Foundation Tools

Windows Communication Foundation Samples

Getting Started Sample

IIS Hosting Using Inline Code

Self-Host

Build Date: 2011-06-25