WCF

Windows communication foundation provides the next generation of distributed communication on the basis of service oriented programming model. WCF is all about providing a single programming model that unifies the features of ASMX, MSMQ, Enterprise services and Remoting hence providing interoperability across platforms. WCF supports new scenarios that are hard to implement with current technology. For example one can have transacted web service which is also secure and reliable by combining the technologies which existed in silos.