Apr 5, 2010 · The Windows Communication Foundation (or WCF) is an application programming interface (API) in the .NET Framework for building connected, service-oriented applications. WCF is meant for designing and deploying distributed applications under service-oriented architecture (SOA) implementation.

Jan 30, 2018 · WCF is not supported in .NET Core since it's a Windows specific technology and .NET Core is supposed to be cross-platform. If you are implementing inter-process communication consider trying the IpcServiceFramework project. It allows creating services in WCF style like this: Create service contract

WCF is the replacement for ASMX Web Services and for .NET Remoting; WCF is a message-based platform for communications; WCF is the recommended Microsoft platform for building and consuming web services of all kinds; WCF is not limited to HTTP/HTTPS or to hosting in IIS. One can host a WCF service in any process

Jan 25, 2012 · The Second client uses .NET so far better performance this clients wants messages in binary format and the protocol to be TCP. Without WCF Services. now for the stated scenarios if we don't use WCF then what will happen let's …

Mar 8, 2020 · I would like to configure WCF service reference with such settings as SecurityMode, Address, ReaderQuotas etc. I would also like to be able to choose between WsHttpBinding, BasicHttpBinding, BasicHttpsBinging etc (like normal configuration provided by app.config in .NET Framework). Is there any way to achive that in .NET Core/.NET Standard?

Jul 30, 2022 · WCF on .NET 6 requires different NuGet-packages for the client and the service. The service requires the CoreWCF-packages (CoreWCF-Service-Libraries) The client requires the System.ServiceModel-packages (CoreWCF-Client-Libraries) However, as far as I know, the client cannot use the config-file to define the endpoint.

All .NET Framework primitive types, such as integers and strings, as well as certain types treated as primitives, such as DateTime and XmlElement, can be serialized with no other preparation and are considered as having default data contracts. Many .NET Framework types also have existing data contracts. You can find the full article here.

Jun 22, 2022 · I have inherited a legacy .NET WCF service. It is currently hosted within an ASP.NET application. I need to extract this into a separate ASP.NET Web API 2 service. I want to get rid of the WCF service altogether instead of simply wrapping it with the Web API. I know that if I was using .NET Core it would be a much simpler as I could used Swagger.

Sep 3, 2020 · I'm trying to consume a SOAP 1.2 WCF service from .net core 3.1. I have a client in .net framework 4 working. It uses wsHttpBinding with security mode TransportWithMessageCredential. First I tried to use wsHttpBinding in my .net core client but I got a "Platform not supported" exception.

Sep 3, 2008 · WCF - Windows Communication Framework - is Microsoft's framework to make inter-process communication easier. It let's you do this communication through various means, plain old asmx web services, Remoting, MS Message Queuing, and a couple more. It let's you talk with other .NET apps, or non-Microsoft technologies (like J2EE).