A Brief Version History of WCF
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WCF stands for Windows Communication Foundation. It is Microsoft's latest technology that enables applications in a distributed environment to communicate with each other. WCF is Microsoft's unified programming model for building service-oriented applications. It enables developers to build secure, reliable, transacted solutions that integrate across platforms and interoperate with existing.
Task-based Async Support
Contract-First Development
WCF Configuration Validation
Web Socket Support
UDP Endpoint Support
New Https protocol mapping on IIS
Streaming Improvements
Multiple Auth support for single endpoint
Simple Configuration
Serialization Enhancements
Support for WS-Discovery
Routing Service
Standard Endpoints
Workflow Service
UriTemplates Support
Support for REST Style Services
Asp.NET Ajax Integration and JSON support
Added WS* Specification Support
Support for RSS and Atom feeds
Introduced first version of WCF with many features like Address, Binding, Contract, Sessions, Instancing, and Concurrency management
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