 See larger picture | Microsoft Windows Communication Foundation Step by Step (Step By Step Developer Series)
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Product Description Teach yourself the essentials of Windows Communication Foundation one step at a time. With this practical tutorial, you get hands-on guidance for creating the Web services you need to implement robust business applications for Windows. Discover how to: Build and host a Web service Design service contracts and data contracts Maintain state information and support transactions Programmatically configure bindings and endpoints Use load-balancing and perform content-based message routing Implement message encryption, authentication, authorization Optimize performance with service throttling, encoding, and streaming Implement asynchronous operations, oneway methods, and events Create services that interoperate with ASP.NET and COM+ CD features: Files for practice exercises Code samples Fully searchable eBook
Featured Customer Reviews  All you need to start with WCF,
August 06, 2008
As I used VS2008 on Vista with Enterprise Library 4.0 the primers do not always work as described. I can see how a novice in .NET and ASP.NET might get really frustrated with the inconsistencies (primarily around UAC and the Enterprise Library), but for more experienced developers it would not be hard to figure things out after some googling, and learn quite a bit in the process. It'll be nice though if the author makes some clarifications and updates, and posts them to amazon or to MS Press.
This book is all about learning by doing. There is no fluff and useless rants. Highly recommended.
 Don't buy this book,
July 05, 2008Straight Forward and Easy to Follow,
May 31, 2008 I purchased this book to get a good base in WCF and that's exactly what this book gives you. It's straight to the point and the examples were easy to follow. You may require something further for more advanced concepts. Not good for Vista and VS 2008 users,
February 08, 2008A great book on WCF,
November 29, 2007 This is an outstanding book on WCF. It starts by providing an effective introduction to, and explanation of the need for WCF. It then does a nice job of truly taking the reader step-by-step through the various aspects of WCF, using solid examples and labs to assist in learning. I had taken a 5-day course on WCF ~18 months ago and summarily forgot most of what I learned since I didn't make use of it. While I expected this to refresh my memory, it went well beyond that.
I did run into a couple of issues. I found that I needed to know a bit about SQL Server to provide appropriate login and read/write access for the NETWORK SERVICE user on Vista. In addition, I experienced a little challenge in getting an SSL certificate working for one of the labs. Even taking those issues into consideration, the book is well worth getting if you want to learn WCF -- and if you are moving towards SOA in the .NET world, you definitely want to learn and use WCF.
One other caution. While the content is outstanding, my book had issues with some pages pulling away from the binding. This seems to be a manufacturing issue with the book that I received, so be aware of that when you use the book, in case the problem crosses over to other copies of the book.
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