The Agile School

WCF Fundamentals Service are applications that wait for clients to communicate with them and respond to that communication. They expose the functionalities to client. Client initiate the communication. They consume the service offered by Service. Message: A message is a self-contained unit of data that may consist of seveal parts, including a body and headers. Clients & Service  communicate using XML messages. A single application can act as both a client and a service. Endpoints Messages are sent between endpoints. Endpoints are places where messages are sent or received (or both), and they define all the information required for the message exchange. A service exposes one or more application endpoints (as well as zero or more infrastructure endpoints), and the client generates an endpoint that is compatible with one of the service's endpoints. An  endpoint  describes in a standard-based way where messages should be sent, how they should be ...