Frequently Asked Questions-WCF Questions & Answers

Here,we are providing a list of frequently asked questions and various programming interviews to developers. I have also shared my answers for these questions for quick revision and easy to understand.

Q) What is WCF?

A) Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is an SDK for developing and deploying services on Windows. It provides a runtime environment for services.It helps in building applications to communicate with each other.

1 . ASP .NET Web services(.asmx)
2. Remoting
3. MSMQ (Microsoft Message Queue)
4. Enterprise Services 

Q) What is the difference between WCF and Web services?

A) WCF has managing distributed programming infrastructures. It offers more flexibility and portability..

WCF supports both http and tcp protocol while webservice supports only http protocol. WCF is more flexible than web service. WCF is combination of WebService, Remoting, MSMQ

Q) What is service and client in perspective of data communication?

A) A service is a unit of functionality exposed to the world. The client of a service is merely the party consuming the service

Q) What are different binding supported by WCF?

A) Basic Binding , TCP Binding , Peer Network Binding , Web Service Binding .

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