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I am confused about the relationship between SOAP and WCF. I understand there are WS-* standards.<br />
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Please list those and give me a few words of context for them. Then also explain the relationshipto WCF.<br />
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Thanks!
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I am confused about the relationship between SOAP and WCF. I understand there are WS-* standards.

Please list those and give me a few words of context for them. Then also explain the relationshipto WCF.

Thanks!

&quot;WS-* standards that extend SOAP&quot; versus WCF?

Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is a tool used to implement and deploy a service-oriented architecture (SOA) to support distributed computing where services have remote consumers. It features a runtime and a set of APIs in the .NET Framework for building connected, service-oriented applications. Services typically have a WSDL interface (Web Services Description Language) that any WCF client can use to consume the service, regardless of which platform the service is hosted on. WCF implements many advanced Web services (WS) standards such as WS-Addressing, WS-ReliableMessaging, WS-Security, RSS Syndication Services, WS-Discovery, routing and better support for REST services.

The .NET Framework is not specific to any one programming language; rather, it includes a library of functions that allows developers to rapidly build applications. Several supported languages include C#, VB.NET, C++ or ASP.NET.

.NET Programming

The successor to Active Server Pages, ASP.NET websites utilize the .NET framework to produce dynamic, data and content-driven web applications and services. ASP.NET code can be written using any .NET supported language. As of 2009, ASP.NET can also apply the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern to web applications

ASP.NET

Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) is a protocol specification for exchanging structured information in the implementation of web services. It uses the XML Information Set for its message format and uses other protocols, notably Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) and the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) for message transmission.

&quot;WS-* standards that extend SOAP&quot; versus WCF?

"WS-* standards that extend SOAP" versus WCF?