What are the features and advantage of WCF?

Features of WCF**

Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is a secure, reliable, and scalable messaging platform for the .NET Framework 3.0,

• Service Orientation
• Interoperability
• Multiple Message Patterns
• Service Metadata
• Data Contracts
• Security
• Multiple Transports and Encodings
• Reliable and Queued Messages
• Durable Messages
• Transactions
• AJAX and REST Support
• Extensibility

Advantages of WCF:

1. Service Oriented
2. Location Independent
3. Language Independent
4. Platform Independent
5. Support Multiple operation
6. WCF can maintain transaction like COM+ Does
7. It can maintain state
8. It can control concurrency
9. It can be hosted on IIS, WAS, Self hosting, Windows services.