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What do you like best about Windows Communication Foundation?

Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is a software to create new and brilliant applications oriented to services for your company, business or to resell the product. With WCF, you can send thousands of data as important messages asynchronously from one endpoint of service to another.

A point of service can be part of a team that provides it continuously and is always available hosted by IIS, or it can be a service hosted in an application. An endpoint can be a customer of a service that requests data from a service endpoint Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Windows Communication Foundation?

Because WCF is built with the .NET Framework, it also includes code methods that support the provision of contracts that you want to apply, but sometimes this may require higher implementation costs.

Messages can be encrypted to protect privacy and may require users to authenticate, this platform sometimes has auto login and it is not possible to log out quickly.

The WCF architecture has a series of extensibility points. If additional capacity is required, they increase the cost of an implementation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Different transports support different messaging patterns and, therefore, affect the types of interactions they support. The execution time and the WCF APIs also help you send messages safely and reliably.

By default, the Add Service Reference feature generates asynchronous task return service methods. It is done for both synchronous and asynchronous methods. In this way, you can call service operations asynchronously using the new task-based asynchronous programming model. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Windows Communication Foundation solving and how is that benefiting you?

A secure service to process all types of commercial transactions.

A service that provides data, important and highly current to others, such as a traffic report or other monitoring service that is required internally in companies or businesses.

The integrated chat platform that allows two people or more to communicate or exchange data in real time.

An application form of a board that provides the data of one or more services to show them in the form of a logical presentation.

Use the Silverlight application to poll a service for the latest data sources. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What is Windows Communication Foundation?

Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is a framework for building service-oriented applications. Using WCF, you can send data as asynchronous messages from one service endpoint to another.

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Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is a framework for building service-oriented applications. Using WCF, you can send data as asynchronous messages from one service endpoint to another.


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4.0 out of 5
"MS windows communication foundation"
You can use WCF to send data from one service to another one. The message could be a single character or XML words
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Alexendra W.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"This software helps to transfer the asynchronous information from one endpoint to another."
Windows Communication Foundation helps to transfer the asynchronous data from one server to another. The server may be IIS or the service hosted in...
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"More then 6 Year of experience in WCF"
WCF is best when web Method required in your program. We can use any protocol like TCP, HTTP, And many more. Can deploy on web and as a windows s...
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What do you like best about Windows Communication Foundation?

You can use WCF to send data from one service to another one. The message could be a single character or XML words Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Windows Communication Foundation?

WCF is just good for web applications . I do not see any other issue. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Windows Communication Foundation solving and how is that benefiting you?

WCF solutions coukd be multi purpose

Can be accessible from any location

Very useful to access to lots of information Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Windows Communication Foundation?

Windows Communication Foundation helps to transfer the asynchronous data from one server to another. The server may be IIS or the service hosted in an application. So, the client is an endpoint that receives the information. This software helps to watch the chat data, business information, traffic report, and monitoring services to apply in all business enterprises. The application is the solution to many business tasks and provides excellent management reports for breaking or building the project. Every single detail is available on a point and we can use this tool in creating innovative and smart business structures. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Windows Communication Foundation?

The security across the system should be dynamic to handle this application. Otherwise, there are many options that information can be skipped off and there should be a key to filter the information and I’m sure this could be done in new versions for promoting this application successfully. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Windows Communication Foundation solving and how is that benefiting you?

Windows Communication Foundation helps to control the transections across the companies. This application can handle the atomic and Microsoft based transection to support the system with its strong strategic qualities. The messages are highly secured and are provided with end to end encryption. Its ability to allocate the task is very different and attracts the clients with favorable deals and it’s done with awesome applications to provide many creative ways for promoting an online business. Our company is dealing with so many things at one time and this tool helps to manage all of them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Windows Communication Foundation?

WCF is best when web Method required in your program.

We can use any protocol like TCP, HTTP, And many more.

Can deploy on web and as a windows service too Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Windows Communication Foundation?

WCF is good for web methods, method overloading needed some more attention Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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WCF is very good can you want to use one platform for multi applications.

WCF can be implemented with multi protocol, IIS implementation with Https protocol is very good with it.

WCF based Web methods can be accessible from any where if you deploy it on cloud.

Also works better with asynchronous programming. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Windows Communication Foundation solving and how is that benefiting you?

Web methods can be written in WCF, which can be utilize for multi purpose.

Like one method can be utilize for multi application.

WCF can interact with Web and Desktop applications both. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Windows Communication Foundation?

This add-on is a great tool to further the cloud computing SQL for small to medium-sized companies. The support system provided by Microsoft only strengthens the assurance in a great product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Windows Communication Foundation?

There were some support delays at times with the SQL requests which were then eventually resolved. Overall, there were no problems detected that may hinder the usage of this tool in given programs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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These recommendations may apply to small to medium-sized businesses. The tool was tested for this review on SQL as well as the cloud. Overall the functions and customer support passed but failed to be implemented on the used platform at the user's corporation and cloud. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Windows Communication Foundation solving and how is that benefiting you?

These roles most likely apply to SQL and cloud computing on the mainframe. There was no in-detail test conducted other than at cloud computing and SQL level. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Windows Communication Foundation?

Easy to use, fun, friendly, the whole office uses, and students, clients, teachers, employers! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Windows Communication Foundation?

There is not anything to dislike at this time, the ease of use is great, maybe more fun visual concepts? Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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This is a great product and our staff uses it daily! It really helps our office streamline things! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Windows Communication Foundation solving and how is that benefiting you?

The ability to use and ease of access to spread information and important announcements to a wide variety of people or specifically a designated group of people. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Windows Communication Foundation?

I really liked the base infrastructure for the messaging between variety of independent platforms. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Windows Communication Foundation?

The only thing that I do not like is it needs some time to learn all the details and hints of it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Windows Communication Foundation solving and how is that benefiting you?

I am solving 3rd party integrations of the several modules and applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Windows Communication Foundation?

its easy way to send and receive messages and create interoperable web services and applications that make use of the same web services Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Windows Communication Foundation?

little interoperability in the transmission of messages Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Windows Communication Foundation solving and how is that benefiting you?

dubious messages like viruses Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Windows Communication Foundation?

Windows does a wonderful job with the documentation when it comes to WCF services. I especially like how its able to communicate with REST services, and WS Discovery. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Windows Communication Foundation?

It's a SOAP based service. This kind of support in a REST API service would be amazing. Being able to have a readily built service locator function on a REST service would be great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Windows Communication Foundation:

It's great for having services essentially communicate like bluetooth. WS-Discovery allows for your services to be found on your network so that a discovery proxy, service locator, can easily register/de-register services onto a database. This allows you to essentially only have to check one location for a service instead of multiple. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Windows Communication Foundation solving and how is that benefiting you?

Creating services with it. I'm able to have all of my services on the same network under the same framework. Greatest benefit has been the WS-Discovery. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Windows Communication Foundation?

It is obviously very streamlined for all other windows products which makes it estetically pleasing and effective. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Windows Communication Foundation?

I personally am not a windows fan and so my opinion is bias. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Windows Communication Foundation solving and how is that benefiting you?

It, as I mentioned before, really does streamline communicating while completing necessary tasks on the computer at work. It makes multi-tasking so simple. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Windows Communication Foundation?

I like the system's easy access and availability Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Windows Communication Foundation?

I dislike that there aren't very many additions to the software Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Windows Communication Foundation solving and how is that benefiting you?

It provides an easy means of communication and processing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.