Resons for moving to WCF technology
- WCF tutorial we introduce the primary reasons for moving from other technologies to WCF as well as how to get started using WCF.
- Prior to .Net 3.0 it was not an easy matter to select a particular technology for communicating between systems due to the number of technologies available from Microsoft.
- For example, users could have used Web Service to communicate between a Java based application and a .Net application.
- WSE users could have take advantage of some of the WS-* message protocols.
- MSMQ has the ability to queue messages which helps to communicate between intermittently connected solutions.
- Enterprise services (the successor of COM+) helps to build distributed application easily; .Net Remoting is a fast way to move messages between two .NET applications.
- All the above mentioned technologies have their pros and cons. Using WCF now we can take the advantage of all the above distributed technologies in a unified manner and WCF is the successor to all these message distribution technologies.