README.wcf.md

Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)

Featured tags

• 4.8.1
  • docker pull mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/framework/wcf:4.8.1
• 4.8
  • docker pull mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/framework/wcf:4.8

About

The Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is a framework for building service-oriented applications. Using WCF, you can send data as asynchronous messages from one service endpoint to another. A service endpoint can be part of a continuously available service hosted by IIS, or it can be a service hosted in an application.

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Usage

The .NET Framework Docker samples show various ways to use .NET Framework and Docker together.

Container sample: Run a WCF application

You can quickly run a container with a pre-built sample WCF Docker image, based on the WCF Docker sample.

Type the following Docker command to start a WCF service container:

docker run --name wcfservicesample --rm -it mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/framework/samples:wcfservice

Find the IP address of the container instance.

docker inspect --format="{{.NetworkSettings.Networks.nat.IPAddress}}" wcfservicesample
172.26.236.119

Type the following Docker command to start a WCF client container, set environment variable HOST to the IP address of the wcfservicesample container:

docker run --name wcfclientsample --rm -it -e HOST=172.26.236.119 mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/framework/samples:wcfclient

Version Compatibility

Version Tag	OS Version	Supported .NET Versions
4.8.1	windowsservercore-ltsc2022	4.8.1
4.8	windowsservercore-ltsc2022, windowsservercore-ltsc2019, windowsservercore-ltsc2016	4.8
4.7.2	windowsservercore-ltsc2019, windowsservercore-ltsc2016	4.7.2
4.7.1	windowsservercore-ltsc2016	4.7.1
4.7	windowsservercore-ltsc2016	4.7
4.6.2	windowsservercore-ltsc2016	4.6.2

Related repositories

.NET Framework:

• dotnet/framework: .NET Framework
• dotnet/framework/sdk: .NET Framework SDK
• dotnet/framework/aspnet: ASP.NET Web Forms and MVC
• dotnet/framework/runtime: .NET Framework Runtime
• dotnet/framework/samples: .NET Framework, ASP.NET and WCF Samples

.NET:

• dotnet: .NET
• dotnet/samples: .NET Samples

Full Tag Listing

Windows Server Core 2022 amd64 Tags

Tag	Dockerfile
4.8.1-20241112-windowsservercore-ltsc2022, 4.8.1-windowsservercore-ltsc2022, 4.8.1	Dockerfile
4.8-20241112-windowsservercore-ltsc2022, 4.8-windowsservercore-ltsc2022, 4.8, latest	Dockerfile

Windows Server Core 2019 amd64 Tags

Tag	Dockerfile
4.8-20241112-windowsservercore-ltsc2019, 4.8-windowsservercore-ltsc2019, 4.8, latest	Dockerfile
4.7.2-20241112-windowsservercore-ltsc2019, 4.7.2-windowsservercore-ltsc2019, 4.7.2	Dockerfile

Windows Server Core 2016 amd64 Tags

Tag	Dockerfile
4.8-20241112-windowsservercore-ltsc2016, 4.8-windowsservercore-ltsc2016, 4.8, latest	Dockerfile
4.7.2-20241112-windowsservercore-ltsc2016, 4.7.2-windowsservercore-ltsc2016, 4.7.2	Dockerfile
4.7.1-20241112-windowsservercore-ltsc2016, 4.7.1-windowsservercore-ltsc2016, 4.7.1	Dockerfile
4.7-20241112-windowsservercore-ltsc2016, 4.7-windowsservercore-ltsc2016, 4.7	Dockerfile
4.6.2-20241112-windowsservercore-ltsc2016, 4.6.2-windowsservercore-ltsc2016, 4.6.2	Dockerfile

Tags not listed in the table above are not supported. See the Supported Tags Policy. See the full list of tags for all supported and unsupported tags.

Support

Lifecycle

• .NET Framework Lifecycle FAQ
• Supported Tags Policy

Image Update Policy

• We update the supported .NET Framework images within 12 hours of any updates to their base images (e.g. windows/servercore:ltsc2019, windows/servercore:ltsc2022, etc.).
• We publish .NET Framework images as part of releasing new versions of .NET Framework including major/minor and servicing.

Feedback

• File an issue
• Contact Microsoft Support

License

• Microsoft Container Images Legal Notice: applies to all .NET Framework container images
• Windows Base Image License: applies to all .NET Framework container images
• Visual Studio Tools License: applies to all .NET Framework SDK container images