Creating a WCF service

A WCF service is a secure service to process business transactions, which supplies current data to others, exposing a workflow implemented using Windows Workflow Foundation as a WCF service. It provides a single programming model to leverage the features to create a unified solution to all distributed technologies. That means you can write the service once and expose different endpoints to exchange messages using any format (default is SOAP) over any transport protocol, that is, HTTP, TCP, MSMQ, Named Pipes, and so on.

SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) is one of the preferred models, where communication between the server and the client happens by using XML-based data.

In this recipe, we will learn about data contract, data member, service contract, operation contract, you need to consider these when creating and connecting to WCF services. When a service reference is taken into an application project, the developer only needs to configure the service with a...