What is transport in WCF?

Technology CommunityCategory: WCFWhat is transport in WCF?
VietMX Staff asked 3 years ago

The WCF programming model separates endpoint operations (as expressed in a service contract) from the transport mechanism that connects two endpoints. This gives you the flexibility to decide how to expose your services to the network. The transport layer is at the lowest level of the channel stack. A transport sends or receives the serialized form of a message to or from another application. The main transports used in Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) are:

  • HTTP,
  • HTTPS,
  • TCP
  • named pipes.