The chapter was introduced with a discussion of reliability in the development of connected systems. Whether it's dealing with lost connections, lost messages, or interrupted transactions, it should be clear that reliability is critical for your distributed applications. WCF clearly provides solutions to these issues through its Reliable Sessions, Queued Messaging, and Transaction-related functionality. And as distributed applications often cross vendor OS boundaries, this chapter has shown how WCF provides support for reliability and transactions across all platforms that support the industry specifications. |