Session D302 – WinFX : Communication Foundation

Probably the most utopian session of the day…

Do not take my words at the first degree. When I say “utopian”, I mean that putting all communication means together in a single framework and providing a single layer to the developer is a very challenging goal.

The Windows Communication Foundation (previously known under the name “Indigo”) will offer a unique framework with which it will be possible to interoperate with applications that are using web services, .Net remoting, MSMQ or COM+.

The applications written with this framework will take their communication settings such as the access point, transactional behavior or security, from a single configuration file like a web.config one. Some new attributes have been introduced among them the [ServiceContract] and [OperationContract]. With these attributes, a web service can implement an interface which is radically new.

http://www.windowscommunication.net