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SepA Brief Version History of WCF
29 Jul 2025
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WCF stands for Windows Communication Foundation. It is Microsoft's latest technology that enables applications in a distributed environment to communicate with each other. WCF is Microsoft's unified programming model for building service-oriented applications. It enables developers to build secure, reliable, transacted solutions that integrate across platforms and interoperate with existing.
WCF Version History
WCF Version
Introduced with .NET & IDE
Features Detail
4.5
4.5 and Visual Studio 2012
Task-based Async Support
Contract-First Development
WCF Configuration Validation
Web Socket Support
UDP Endpoint Support
New Https protocol mapping on IIS
Streaming Improvements
Multiple Auth support for single endpoint
4.0
4.0 and Visual Studio 2010
Simple Configuration
Serialization Enhancements
Support for WS-Discovery
Routing Service
Standard Endpoints
Workflow Service
3.5
3.5 and Visual Studio 2008
UriTemplates Support
Support for REST Style Services
Asp.NET Ajax Integration and JSON support
Added WS* Specification Support
Support for RSS and Atom feeds
3.0
3.0 and Visual Studio 2005
Introduced first version of WCF with many features like Address, Binding, Contract, Sessions, Instancing, and Concurrency management
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