WCF & Service Oriented Architecture

Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is a new technology in .Net 3.0/3.5 helps you to implement Service Oriented Architecture. This new technology not only allows you to work with previous services implemented by .Net Remoting or XML Web Services, but also has extensive functionality like instance management, asynchronous call, transaction management, disconnected queued calls, and security which can be applied through simple configuration.

If you are going to write a service it is better use this technology as it gives lots of flexibility. For those of you who may not work with other technologies like Remoting, COM+ or XML Web Services and may not have experience with Service Oriented Architecture I should say Service Oriented Architecture tries to provide the functionality through services which are components hosted probably in another box. Applications can use these services.

So if you have a code that you think different applications in internet / intranet may use it.You better provide that code as a service then your code centralized in one place while you can use extensive functionality through WCF.

Please read my other posts for WCF comming soon.