Basic WCF Programming

This section presents the fundamentals for creating Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) applications.

In This Section

• Basic Programming Lifecycle
  Describes the lifecycle of designing, building, and deploying WCF service and client applications.

• Designing and Implementing Services
  Describes how to design and implement a service contract, choose a message exchange pattern, specify a fault contract, and other basic aspects of services.

• Configuring Services
  Describes how to configure a WCF service to support the contract requirements, customize local runtime behavior, and indicate the address to publish the service.

• Hosting Services
  Describes the basics of hosting services in an application.

• Building Clients
  Describes how to obtain metadata from services, convert that into WCF client code, handle security issues, and build, configure, and host an WCF client.

• Introduction to Extensibility
  Describes how to extend WCF to create custom solutions.

• WCF Troubleshooting Quickstart
  Describes some of the most common issues that occur, what you can do to solve them, and where to locate more information about the issue.

Reference

System.ServiceModel

System.ServiceModel.Channels

System.ServiceModel.Description

Related Sections

Windows Communication Foundation

WCF System Requirements

Conceptual Overview

Getting Started Tutorial

Guidelines and Best Practices

Windows Communication Foundation Tools

Windows Communication Foundation Samples

Getting Started Sample

IIS Hosting Using Inline Code

Self-Host

Build Date: 2011-06-25