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Windows Communication Foundation

Last updated May 19, 2025, generated by Sumble

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What is Windows Communication Foundation?

Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is a framework for building service-oriented applications. It enables developers to build secure, reliable, and transacted services that can be integrated across different platforms and technologies. WCF is commonly used for creating web services, distributed applications, and other types of networked systems where inter-process communication is required.

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What other technologies are related to Windows Communication Foundation?

Windows Communication Foundation Competitor Technologies

Web Services is a generic term for services offered over the web, and WCF is one way to implement web services. Other technologies like ASP.NET Web API, REST APIs built with Node.js, or gRPC can be viewed as competing ways to build web services.

mentioned alongside Windows Communication Foundation in 0% (102) of relevant job posts

Windows Communication Foundation Complementary Technologies

Windows Presentation Foundation

WPF is a UI framework that can be used with WCF to create rich client applications that communicate with services.

mentioned alongside Windows Communication Foundation in 14% (107) of relevant job posts

ASP.NET can host WCF services, allowing them to be accessed over HTTP.

mentioned alongside Windows Communication Foundation in 0% (295) of relevant job posts

Entity Framework

Entity Framework is an ORM that can be used within WCF services to interact with databases.

mentioned alongside Windows Communication Foundation in 0% (189) of relevant job posts

Which job functions mention Windows Communication Foundation?

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Jobs mentioning Windows Communication Foundation

Orgs mentioning Windows Communication Foundation

Engineer

0% (639) job posts

2 organizations

Software Engineer

0% (594) job posts

223 organizations

Sharepoint Developer

0% (31) job posts

5 organizations

Software Architect

0% (30) job posts

19 organizations

Solutions Architect

0% (21) job posts

8 organizations

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Which organizations are mentioning Windows Communication Foundation?

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Bank of America

Finance and Insurance

Professional Services

Scientific and Technical Services

Tyler Technologies

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