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by WorldMaker 2467 days ago
WCF also originally supported peer-to-peer network topologies, discovery methods like PNRP (Microsoft's competitor standard to eventual "winner" Bonjour/mDNS), various versions of the SOAP metadata formats, and WS-* standards, etc.

It was definitely ambitious. When it worked it was sometimes magic, and when it didn't it was a giant mess to resolve.

[ETA: In one past life I made the mistake of trying to use WCF Peer-to-Peer for a project and I still have scars from that. :O]