WCF Introduction

WCF stands for Windows Communication Foundation. Basically WCF is a platform for building, configuring and deploying distributed services. In fact we can say wcf is a service layer that will allows us to create and communicate using verities of ways. 

Before WCF: Previously we used to use web services. The major problem with web service is that only http binding is allowed with it (No interoperability), exception handling mechanism was not robust and few more disadvantages.Because of all these drawbacks WCF took birth and came into picture by overcoming these drawbacks. Therefore we can say WCF as next generation of web services. 

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