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In early March I submitted a media inquiry to Microsoft, asking about the No. 1 (in terms of votes) item on the Developer Community site for Visual Studio and the subject of much developer discussion: ...

The OPC Foundation has announced the release of OPC .NET 3.0 (WCF), formerly known as OPC Express Interface (Xi). The new API enables users of OPC Classic to leverage Windows Communication Foundation ...

"So we get Java interop but no WCF. I would like to try what the folks planning this are smoking." "I don't understand the purposeful killing of WCF. It seems sadistic. They got us to buy in and make ...

Way, way back in the early days of .NET and the abortive Windows Longhorn project, one of the underlying technologies was a set of standards that built on the nascent web services model: WS-* and SOAP ...

Until REST APIs came along, SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) was the de facto standard protocol on which web services were based. When working in ASP.Net Core, you might well encounter the need to ...