{"id":109,"date":"2013-08-20T14:35:33","date_gmt":"2013-08-20T14:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praveenkatiyar.wordpress.com\/?p=109"},"modified":"2013-08-20T14:35:33","modified_gmt":"2013-08-20T14:35:33","slug":"introduction-to-wcf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praveenkatiyar.in\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/08\/20\/introduction-to-wcf\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction to WCF"},"content":{"rendered":"

What is WCF<\/font><\/h3>\n

In a nutshell, WCF is a SDK for developing and deploying<\/strong> services<\/strong> on Windows, although services can be build even without WCF.  Developing services with WCF is easier. WCF is Microsoft\u2019s implementation of a set of industry standards defining service interactions, type conversions, marshaling, and management of various protocols. consequently, WCF provides interoperability between services.     <\/font><\/p>\n

What is SOA<\/font><\/h3>\n

SOA is the next evolutionary step in the long journey from functions<\/strong> to object<\/strong> to components<\/strong> to service orientated applications. <\/strong>Service orientation (SO) <\/strong>is an abstract set of methodologies, principles and best practices for building service oriented applications(SOA). Service oriented application aggregates services into a single logical application. <\/font><\/p>\n

What is a Service<\/font><\/h3>\n

A service is a unit of functionality exposed to the world. the services can be local or remote, can be deployed by multiple parties using any technology. <\/font><\/p>\n

What is a WCF Service<\/font><\/h3>\n

WCF Service typically exposes metadata describing the available functionality and possible ways of communicating with service. Metadata is published in a predefined, technology-neutral<\/strong> way such as using WSDL (Web Services Description Language) over HTTP-GET or an industry standard for metadata exchange over any protocol. WCF services may communicate over a variety of transports (not just HTTP). A non WCF client can import the metadata to its native environment as native types. similarly, a WCF client can import the metadata of a non WCF service and  consume it as a native CLR class\/interface.  <\/font><\/p>\n

Anatomy of WCF Service\/ <\/font>A<\/font><\/font> <\/font>B<\/font><\/font> <\/font>C<\/font><\/font> <\/font>of WCF Service<\/font><\/h3>\n

(A) Address<\/font> <\/font><\/h4>\n

in WCF every service is associated with a unique address. the address provides two important elements: <\/font><\/h3>\n