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.NET 3.0 introduced an API designed specifically for the process of building distributed systems: Windows Communication Foundation (WCF). Unlike other distributed APIs you might have used in the past (e.g., DCOM, .NET remoting, XML web services, message queuing), WCF provides a single, unified, and extendable programming object model that you can used to interact with a number of previously diverse distributed technologies.
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© 2010 Andrew Troelsen, Vidya Vrat Agarwal
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(2010). Introducing Windows Communication Foundation. In: Pro VB 2010 and the .NET 4 Platform. Apress. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-2986-5_25
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