What is WCF?

WCF...Windows Communication Foundation..
* Its a programming framework used to build application that inter-communicate.
* Its code name is 'Indigo'. It was released in December-2006.
* WCF uses SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) messages between two processes. But while communicating with a non-WCF process, XML-based encoding is used for the SOAP messages.
* A WCF service is composed of 3 parts :
1) Service class that implements service to be provided.
2) host environment to host service.
3) one or more endpoints to which clients will connect.

Use of WCF :
* Because WCF can communicate using Web services, interoperability with other platforms that also support SOAP, such as the leading J2EE-based application servers, is straightforward.
* We can also configure and extend WCF to communicate with Web services using messages not based on SOAP, for example, simple XML formats like RSS.
* WCF helps provide reliability, security, and transactions when communicating with any platform.
* It is designed to interoperate well with the non-WCF applications.

Session in Cummins college of engineering for Women

We took 1 day session and 2 days workshop on 27-28 February and 1st March in Cummins college of engineering for Women. Session was held for 2nd and 3rd year girls. In session we covered an introduction to .net,asp.net and ado.net.

Many girls attended the session. 4 staff members also attended the session. MSPs Sonali, Shrishti, Shaizeen also were involved in our session.