The vast majority of applications that are developed today need to communicate with other applications. The ability to share data between a wide network of services that can communicate with other platforms and devices is what Web services are all about. Windows Communication Foundation is Microsoft's unified programming model for building Web service applications with managed code. It extends the .NET Framework to enable developers to build secure, reliable, and transacted Web services that interoperate across platforms and integrate with existing investments. Windows Communication Foundation is built from the ground-up to combine and extend the capabilities of existing Microsoft distributed systems technologies, including Enterprise Services, System.Messaging, .NET Remoting, ASMX, and WSE to deliver a unified development experience.

As businesses continued to expand over the years, their demand for more IT systems increased. As mergers and acquisitions became the standard, there was an even greater demand for new systems. As a result, today's enterprises are composed of a plethora of IT systems that are independent of each other. The result is hundreds, if not thousands, of application islands. The definite benefits of WCF is that it eliminates information silos, improve IT and business agility, allows faster integration and most importantly supports reuse of technology investments.

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