Until REST APIs came along, SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) was the de facto standard protocol on which web services were based. When working in ASP.Net Core, you might well encounter the need to ...

The .NET Foundation has announced support for Core WCF, an OSS project whose initial code donated from a WCF team member at Microsoft. Core WCP is a por of the Windows Communication Framework.

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Way, way back in the early days of .NET and the abortive Windows Longhorn project, one of the underlying technologies was a set of standards that built on the nascent web services model: WS-* and SOAP ...