As systems become more and more service-oriented, the importance of the connections between services and consumers of those services rises, Microsoft interop guru Dino Chiesa writes on SearchWebServices.com. He sees Windows Communication Foundation as a ready means to achieve services-consumers connections.

Chiesa provides a window - [sorry, could not avoid that one] – into the thinking behind WCF. Developers of distributed systems told Microsoft they wanted fewer programming interfaces for communications, and communications capabilities in the platform. This resulted in a WCF that can be viewed as a single generalized communications stack.

In his SearchWebservices.com article, Chiesa notes that .NET 3.5, due with the upcoming release of Microsoft’s Visual Studio 2008 suite, will more closely tie WCF to declarative workflow implementations, as well as offering support for REST-style services and JSON encoding.

Read Web services stacks – Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) - SearchWebServices.com

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