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Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)

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Retired: November 2011

The Service Factory uses the Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) included with the .NET Framework 3.5 in the WCF guidance package. WCF is the Microsoft unified programming model for building service-oriented applications. It enables developers to build secure, reliable, transacted solutions that integrate across platforms and interoperate with existing investments. WCF is implemented primarily as a set of classes on top of the .NET Framework common language runtime (CLR). For more information about WCF, see the following supporting WCF documentation on MSDN: