A Service Broker object that defines the message types that can be exchanged within a given conversation.
— Computer ScienceAn agreement to provide customer service support during specified coverage dates or for a specified number of cases or length of time. When customers contact customer service, the level of support they receive is determined by their contract.
— Computer ScienceA customer service issue or problem reported by a customer and the activities that customer service representatives use to resolve it.
— Computer ScienceA formal or legally binding agreement between two or more parties.
— Computer ScienceThe behavior and state that a class provides, which is matched with what a client of that class can expect to hold. A contract is expressed partly by the signatures for all public fields, methods, properties, and events of that class. This is augmented by a description (usually in simple descriptive text) of what each field or property represents, together with what each method does. In the .NET Framework add-in programming model, a non-versioning interface that defines the methods and specifies the data types for transferring data over the communication pipeline between the host and the add-in. The contract is in the middle of the communication pipeline between the add-in and the host. The contract assembly is loaded into the application domains of both the add-in and the host.
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