AppFabric WCF HTTP Service (C#)

Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is Microsoft’s unified programming model for building service-oriented applications.Windows Server AppFabric provides tools for managing and monitoring your web services and workflows. WCF HTTP Service is a service that can be accessed by a simple HTTP POST/GET request and can return responses in plain XML and in JSON formats.

The AppFabric WCF HTTP Service template brings these two products together providing the following features:

• Monitor the calls to your service across multiple servers with AppFabric Monitoring
• Eliminate the .svc extension from the URI by using routing
• Create custom Event Tracing for Windows (ETW) events that will be logged by AppFabric Monitoring
• Provide a simple HTML page for invoking the service with or without the .svc extension

For more information see the Walkthrough