This article discusses Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) hosting options and consuming WCF services. The traditional ASMX Web services were hosted only on Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS). The hosting options for WCF services are significantly enhanced in Microsoft .NET Framework 3...

One of the major challenges in Real World SOA enterprise applications is the lack of semantic information associated with Service Contracts. For a while now the W3C folks have been working in different efforts for relating semantic web Standards (RDF, SPARK, etc) with Web Service basic standards (SO...

The World Wide Web Consortium today released four SOAP 1.2 Second Editions as W3C Recommendations: Part 0: Primer, Part 1: Messaging Framework, Part 2: Adjuncts, and Specification Assertions and Test Collection. SOAP Version 1.2 provides the definition of the XML-based information that can be used f...

An introduction to and overview of SOA, the WS-* specifications, and how WCF makes them accessable to .NET developers. Material is rooted in Juval Lowy's presentations at SD West 2007.

Here are some useful recommendations for designing message contracts for web services.

Leverage the new microsoft framework for service-orientation archiecture, The Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) . a series of lessons each on need only 10 minutes of your time ,written simply to help you master the WCF.