Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)

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  • 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

If you created your app using an earlier version of .NET Framework, you can generally upgrade it to .NET Framework 4.8+ easily. Additionally, .NET Framework 4.8 and 4.8.1 can run apps that were built targeting any version of .NET Framework 4.

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TagsDockerfileOS Version
4.8.1-20260414-windowsservercore-ltsc2025, 4.8.1-windowsservercore-ltsc2025, 4.8.1DockerfileWindows Server Core 2025
4.8.1-20260414-windowsservercore-ltsc2022, 4.8.1-windowsservercore-ltsc2022, 4.8.1DockerfileWindows Server Core 2022
4.8-20260414-windowsservercore-ltsc2019, 4.8-windowsservercore-ltsc2019, 4.8, latestDockerfileWindows Server Core 2019
4.8-20260414-windowsservercore-ltsc2016, 4.8-windowsservercore-ltsc2016, 4.8, latestDockerfileWindows Server Core 2016

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  • 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.

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