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The Article from the project that we will speak about today is :
Sending the data already gathered from the client to the Server
server
The WCF (Wondows Communication Foundation), provides what web services
dont. WCF offers other protocols for data communication and even half/full
duplex communication. By using WCF, we can define a communication service
and setup and then configure it so we can use it via HTTP, TCP, IPC or even
Message Queues.
Another explanation of WCF is that it is a framework which was designed for
developers who want to develop distributed service-oriented applications. The
WCF is used by developers to create, host, consume and secure services by using
the Microsoft platform. In this way, developers could concentrate on
implementing theirs applications and not the communication environment with
protocols and low level details.
The main differences between the web service and WCF service are presented in
the following table:
Web Service
Communicate only through
HTTP
Simplex and requestresponse based
communication
Hosted in a web server in a
stateless fashion
WCF Service
Communicate over HTTP,
TCP, IPC, MSMQ
Simplex, request-response,
duplex communication
Can be hosted in many
ways (inside IIS, in a
windows service, self
hosted)
OAuth example
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