Windows Communication Foundation Services

The Windows Communication Foundation allow a seamless platform for communication between applications across the web with a common protocol for data transfer that is powerful and secure.

WCF is designed in accordance with service oriented architecture principles to support distributed computing where services are consumed by consumers. Clients can consume multiple services and services can be consumed by multiple clients. Services are loosely coupled to each other. Services typically have a WSDL interface which any WCF client can use to consume the service, irrespective of which platform the service is hosted on.