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Product Description Dive deep into the operation of Microsoft Windows Communication Foundation with this practical, hands-on book--and learn the intricacies of Windows Communication Foundation and service-oriented concepts and implementations. Fundamentally, services are not objects. Given the prevalence of the object-oriented paradigm over the past twenty years, experienced developers need to explore a new way of thinking about architecting solutions. Concise and practical, this guide explains the fundamentals of applications built with a service-oriented architecture and how the international standards for Web services are implemented in Windows Communication Foundation. Each chapter includes at least two practical code samples in Microsoft Visual C#®.
Featured Customer Reviews  interesting details but so what?,
July 13, 2008Good Reference, Poor Learning Tool,
July 10, 2008 While the author definitely has a command of the subject matter, this is perhaps the book's downfall. The book is written as less of a learning aide and as more of a reference to WCF. After reading it, I would say the target audience is an experienced SOA developer migrating over to WCF.
While I think it is a little better than MSDN, it is definitely not a casual read. SOA / Distributed-app beginners beware: if you are wanting a quick guide to getting things started in WCF, this is NOT the book for you. Experienced developers in distributed or SOA technologies might want to take a look at this book, however.
If it were a book about flying airplanes, the subject matter would discuss the minutia of avionics, flight control systems, and instrumentation; but provide very little about flight procedures.
I gave it 4 stars because it is definitely a solid book, but for the appropriate reader. If you have experience with SOA, then it is worth your time. If not, look elsewhere first and make this your 2nd or 3rd book on the subject. No practical examples,
May 29, 2008
The book basically covers Message, Channels and Channel messages but only makes cryptic comments on how these concepts apply to real life uses.
Because the contents are similar to those you find MSDN, I recomend this book as reference. If you want a practical book that shows how to use WCF in real-life applications, this book is not it.
In my opinion this book is boring and over priced.
Thank you. Simply a Great,
December 10, 2007
Excellent writing, sapmles are easy to understand also for not so experienced WCF programmers like me (this was my second book I've read about WCF after Programming WCF Services (Programming) by Juval Lowy).
Book has just 'only' 300 pages but it's because there is absolutely no fluffy filler like in many IT books.
I think this book is fully comparable to Jeffrey Richter's legendary programming books.
I also suggest to read Windows Communication Foundation Unleashed.Excellent!,
December 06, 2007 The author's approach to teaching you WCF is to first tell you why you'd even want to know about WCF in the first place and then tell you how it works. I think this is a great approach and I wish more authors would write like this. If you want to understand the *why* and the *how* this book is for you.
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