Information Technology: WCF

Common questions about WCF

1.What is WCF?
Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is a framework for building service-oriented
applications.

2.Why WCF is formed?
Need is the mother of all invention. The following are the needs arised when webservice is used as a traditional communication.
a.Need a framework which has ability to facilitate communication other than http and can be Tcp, IPC or even MSMQ.
b.Need a communication other than simplex communication or uni-directional communication and can be duplex or half-duplex.
c.Need services which are not to be dependent on only IIS and can be windows services or even self hosted.
d.Need to have different protocols and to support different applications.