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Asynchronous services are easier to implement with support of the await and async keywords in WCF 4.5. We look at that, as well as contract-first development. There are performance benefits to using ...

Way, way back in the early days of .NET and the abortive Windows Longhorn project, one of the underlying technologies was a set of standards that built on the nascent web services model: WS-* and SOAP ...

WCF (Windows Communication Foundation) is a secure, reliable, and scalable messaging platform for developing services in .Net. This is the second part in the series of articles on WCF best practices.