D00D! Wake Up, .NET WCF is HERE, man!
"There used to be a real me, but I had it surgically removed" -- Peter Sellers I confess I must have either been asleep at the switch, or Microsoft is just throwing so many CTP's and BETAs at us poor slobs that I got sensory overload. At any rate, WCF is here. They actually released it last November, according to Clemens Vasters , last Nov 8th - and its pre-baked into Windows Vista - all this under the moniker of ".NET Framework 3.0". Even some hosting ISP's have already installed it for their customers. OK, so what is WCF (Windows Communications Foundation) and why should I care, right? Let me try to provide a short, meaningful explanation: Do you think it would be useful to you as a programmer if they took ASP.NET Web Services, Web Service Enhancements, .NET Remoting, Enterprise Services, and System.Messaging, and rolled them all into this new integrated architecture, programming model, and runtime environment and provided a more productive SOA developmen...