Welcome to the WCF community site!

Announcement: WCF Web API is now ASP.NET Web API! ASP.NET Web API released with ASP.NET MVC 4 Beta. The WCF Web API and WCF Support for jQuery content on this site will be removed by the end of 2012.

Grab our our latest bits and samples

You can also check out our growing list of Quick Starts here

Windows Communication Foundation provides a unified programming model for rapidly building service-oriented applications that communicate across the web and the enterprise

WCF is enabling great end-to-end lifecycle experiences in the cloud. As more enterprises transition to the cloud, WCF will be a first-class component in any composite application. At the same time, WCF continues to invest across the board in programming model simplicity, and other clients we already support, including Silverlight and Windows Phone.

Within this site you will have early access to code for features that will likely appear in upcoming releases. This site is for YOU!

• Grab our source (more information on using the product sources)
• Evaluate our bits early and use them internally (at your own risk :-) )
• Impact the design
• Interact with the team

News

• 2/16/12 WCF Web API is now ASP.NET Web API
• 11/28/11 WCF Web API Preview 6 released!
• 09/15/11 BUILD session "Building Web APIs in Windows Azure with WCF to reach any device"
• 09/15/11 Updated Quick Start: Building a simple web api using HTTP GET
• 09/15/11 Updated Quick Start: Adding support for getting a single resource and supporting POST, PUT and DELETE methods
• 09/15/11 Added Quick Start: Web API Enhancements
• 09/15/11 Added Video: Introducing the WCF Web API Test Client
• 07/11/11 New jQuery scenario: Data-driven application working with a collection of entities (RIA/JS)
• 07/11/11 Added new Quick Start: Getting started: Adding support for getting a single resource and supporting POST, PUT and DELETE methods
• 06/25/11 Added new Quick Start: Getting Started- Building a simple web api using HTTP GET
• 04/15/11 MIX session "WCF Web API, there is a URI for that" now live at: http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/MIX/MIX11/FRM14
• 04/14/11 MIX session on jQuery support: http://channel9.msdn.com/events/MIX/MIX11/FRM05
• 03/7/10 WCF Web APIs Roundup - Volume 2: An aggregation of various community posts on WCF Web APIs.
• 12/21/10 Introducing the WebSockets prototype: Tomek blogs about our the newly launched Html5 labs and our WebSockets protoytype (with source available).
• 12/19/10 System.Json improvements: Carlos blogs about the new enhancements in our latest Web Api release.   
• More news