WCF News and Announcements

We're done. WCF is live.

The Windows Communication Foundation is now available in its release version as part of the .NET Framework 3.0. It's been a long 7 years since Microsoft first endorsed the SOAP specification and the industry has since come together on specifying a broad set of interoperability standards for rich and robust communication between applications. The Windows Communication Foundation is Microsoft's realization of the WS-* vision and is a the unified foundation to build service oriented applications. Whether your applications communicate via one-way, request-response, or duplex connections, whether they use TCP, HTTP, Named Pipes, Peer-Meshes, or Queues, whether they use transport-based or message-based security, whether they use simple authorization or federated brokered trust ... there is just one way to program. With the release of the Windows Communication Foundation we are consolidating five technologies, ASP.NET Web Services, Web Service Enhanements, .NET Remoting, Enterprise Services, and System.Messaging, into this new integrated architecture, programming model, and runtime environment and provide a more productive development platform for distributed systems than ever before. Everyone around here at the Connected Systems Division at Microsoft is very proud of having achieved this goal and we'd like to thank the thousands of customers and friends who have been testing our pre-release versions, reporting bugs, and giving us suggestions for how to improve the product. We would also like to thank the many industry partners who we cooperated with to define the broad family of interoperability standards and who have and still are working with us to make interoperability in the enterprise and on the web a reality. These are great days. Thank you all.

 http://wcf.netfx3.com/blogs/news_and_announcements/archive/2006/11/08/We_2700_re-done.-WCF-is-live.-.aspx