What is a WCF Contract?

Thursday, October 1, 2009


It says about what the Endpoint communicates. It is a collection of messages in MEP (Message Exchange Patterns) format.



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What is a WCF Endpoint Binding?


It says How to send the messages like specifying the transport protocol (e.g., TCP), encoding information (e.g., binary), and security requirements (e.g.,

SSL), etc.



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What is a WCF Endpoint Address?


It says where you need to send the messages.



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What is a WCF Endpoint?


The Endpoint is the point where messages are sent by the Client to the service. Every Service has some Endpoints based on the requirement and provides the

Client with the details. An Endpoint will have an Address, a Binding, and a Contract.



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What is a WCF Client?


Clients send messages to the Service to do some work and they start the flow.



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What is a WCF Service?


It is a piece of code which can be interacted with messages. They work based on the messages from the Clients and they wait until the Client sends the

messages.



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Say any 3 key features of WCF?


1. Unified Programming Model.
2. Service Oriented Architecture.
3. Cross-Vendor interoperability.



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