A Developer’s Introduction to Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) .NET 4 Beta 1
The article describes the main feature areas. These feature areas summarize most of what’s new in WCF and they highlight the top-level opportunities offered by this release of the framework.
Feature Area | Description |
Simplified Configuration | Simplification of the WCF configuration section through support for default endpoints, binding and behavior configurations. These changes make it possible to host configuration-free services, greatly simplifying the developer experience for the most common WCF scenarios. |
Discovery | New framework support for both ad-hoc and managed service discovery behaviors, which conform to the standard WS-Discovery protocol. |
Routing Service | New framework support for a configurable routing service that you can use in your WCF solutions. Provides features for content-based routing, protocol bridging, and error handling. |
REST Improvements | Enhances the WCF 3.5 Web programming model with some additional features that simplify REST service development. |
Workflow Services | Rich new framework support for integrating WCF with WF to implement declarative long-running workflow services. This new programming model gives you the best both frameworks have to offer (WCF & WF). |
