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WCF .NET 4.0 RoadMap

.NET 4.0 brings several improvements in the areas of WCF and WF, including improved REST capabilities, a new workflow model, seamless integration between WF and WCF, and a new visual designer. It also provides the ability to author completely declarative (XAML-based) workflow services that can be more easily deployed, hosted, and managed

WCF Features

Simplified Configuration – Implicit Endpoints, Default Endpoint & Binding Configurations

Discovery - based on contracts

Routing- xpath based content Routing.

Improved REST support

BLOB Encoder

A Developer's Introduction to Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) .NET 4 Beta 2
An overview of the most important new features and improvements in WCF, with enough technical detail and code to help you as a developer understand how to use them. Now updated for Beta 2.

Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) Samples for .NET Framework 4.0 Beta 2
This package contains samples for exploring the new features in Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) for .NET Framework 4.0 Beta 2.

Introducing Windows Server AppFabric
On Nov 17th 2009 at the Professional Developers Conference (PDC) Microsoft announced the release of Windows Server AppFabric beta1. AppFabric evolves the existing application server capabilities of Windows Server to make it easier to build, scale and manage ASP.NET and WCF and WF applications that run on Internet Information Services (IIS) .

Videos :

What's new in WF/WCF 4.0

endpoint.tv - Service Discovery with WCF
WCF in .NET 4 includes an implementation of the WS-Discovery protocol.