Core WCF is a port of Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) to .NET Core. The goal of this project is to enable existing WCF projects to move to .NET Core.
The latest released packages can be found at Nuget.org:
| Package | NuGet Stable | Downloads |
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| CoreWCF.Primitives |  |
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| CoreWCF.Http |  |
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| CoreWCF.NetTcp |  |
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| CoreWCF.ConfigurationManager |  |
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To keep up to date on what's going on with CoreWCF, you can subscribe to the announcements repo to be notified about major changes and other noteworthy announcements.
- Install the Nuget packages listed above, either via the Package Manager Console or the UI.
- The following sample projects show how to create a CoreWCF server or client
- NetCoreServer - Server Project for .NET Core
- DesktopServer - .NET Framework 4.7.2 host using ServiceHost
- NetCoreClient - Wraps StandardClient with a .NET Core Console Application
- DesktopClient - Wraps StandardClient with a .NET Framework Console Application
- StandardClient - .NET Standard based client for the server projects
The Blog has details on the design philosophy and which features are included in each new release.
There are pre-release packages available for daily builds of main from a NuGet feed hosted in Azure DevOps. You can download the packages by adding the following package source to your list of feeds.
https://pkgs.dev.azure.com/dotnet/CoreWCF/_packaging/CoreWCF/nuget/v3/index.json
If you are using a nuget.config file with only the default nuget.org package source, after adding the CoreWCF feed it would look like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<configuration>
<packageSources>
<clear />
<add key="nuget.org" value="https://api.nuget.org/v3/index.json" />
<add key="CoreWCF" value="https://pkgs.dev.azure.com/dotnet/CoreWCF/_packaging/CoreWCF/nuget/v3/index.json" />
</packageSources>
</configuration>Please see the CONTRIBUTING.md file for details.
This project has adopted the code of conduct defined by the Contributor Covenant to clarify expected behavior in our community. For more information see the .NET Foundation Code of Conduct.
Core WCF is Copyright © 2019 .NET Foundation and other contributors under the MIT license.
This project is supported by the .NET Foundation.