Ancient Origins articles related to shrunken heads in the sections of history, archaeology, human origins, unexplained, artifacts, ancient places and myths and legends. Skip to main content
This subsystem is a part of .NET Framework 3.0. The Windows Communication Foundation (or WCF), previously known as Indigo, is a runtime and a set of APIs in the .NET Framework for building connected, service-oriented applications.
Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) includes a new serialization engine, the DataContractSerializer. The DataContractSerializer translates between .NET Framework objects and XML, in both directions. This topic explains how the serializer works. When serializing .NET Framework objects, the serializer understands a variety of serialization programming models, including the new data contract model.