Summary

This chapter has shown you how to create an application that hosts a WCF service. You have seen the different types of application that you can use for this purpose, and you have built a WPF application and a Windows service. You have also learned a lot more about how WCF uses bindings to specify the transport protocol, encoding mechanism, and other non-functional aspects of a service such as reliability, security, and support for transactions. You have been introduced to the predefined bindings available in the WCF library. You have learned how to add multiple bindings to a service by using multiple endpoints. You have seen how to specify binding information by using a configuration file and how to specify a binding and endpoint for a service by using code.