Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) provides a framework for building secure, reliable, transacted, and interoperable ...

Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) provides a framework for building secure, reliable, transacted, and interoperable distributed applications. WCF is a communications infrastructure that is built on the Web services architecture. The service-oriented programming model of WCF is built into the Microsoft .NET Framework. It unifies a broad array of distributed systems capabilities in a composable and extensible architecture, spanning transports, security systems, messaging patterns, encodings, network topologies, and hosting models. WCF simplifies the development of connected systems by reducing the amount of custom coding.