Summary

In this chapter, you've learned how to prepare for upcoming technologies in the communication area. With Web services, security, reliability, transactions, and performance are required features for many business solutions. WCF is the technology that implements these features.

WCF combines the features of .NET Remoting, ASP.NET Web services, Enterprise Services, and Message Queuing. It offers the same programming model for using all these features. Also, WCF can be easily integrated with existing technologies.