Getting Started Tutorial The topics contained in this section
are intended to give you quick exposure to the Windows
Communication Foundation (WCF) programming experience. They are
designed to be completed in the order of the list at the bottom
of this topic. Working through this tutorial gives you an
introductory understanding of the steps required to create WCF
service and client applications. A service exposes one or more
endpoints, each of which exposes one or more service operations.
The endpoint of a service specifies an address where the service
can be found, a binding that contains the information that
describes how a client must communicate with the service, and a
contract that defines the functionality provided by the service
to its clients. After you work through the sequence of topics in
this tutorial, you will have a running service, and a client
that calls the service. The first three topics describe how to
define a service contract, how to implement the service
contract, and how to host the ser