 See larger picture | Windows Communication Foundation Unleashed (WCF)
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Craig McMurtry, Marc Mercuri, Nigel Watling, and Matt Winkler
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Product Description This is the eBook version of the printed book. Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is a new Microsoft technology for allowing software to communicate. Superseding earlier technologies, such as COM/DCOM, .NET Remoting, ASP.NET Web Services, and the Web Services Enhancements for .NET, WCF provides a single solution that is designed to always be the best way to exchange data among software entities. It also provides the infrastructure for developing the next generation of Web services, with support for the WS-* family of specifications, and a new serialization system for enhanced performance. For information technology professionals, WCF supplies an impressive array of administration tools that enterprises and software vendors can use to reduce the cost of ownership of their solutions without writing a single line of code. Most important, WCF finally delivers on the long-postponed promise of model-driven software development with the new software factory approach, by which one can iteratively design solutions in a modeling language and generate executables from lower-level class libraries. Windows Communication Foundation Unleashed is designed to be the best resource for software developers and architects working with WCF. The book guides readers toward a conceptual understanding of all the facilities of WCF and provides step-by-step guides to applying the technology to practical problems.
Featured Customer Reviews  Overall a winner!,
July 23, 2008
If you are a developer looking to get specific examples of how to use WCF in different situations, this book provides the most common situations in which you are likely to run into WCF (think Web Services) as well as an introduction into some more rare circumstances (like building custom Behaviors, Transports, and Channels). The sheer breadth that book attempts to cover means that it does not fully cover each item presented in the table of contents. I personally would have like to have seen more coverage on WS-*. That being said, for the consulting and product work that I do, this book got me 95% of the way to solving all the challenges that I have faced to date. For the other 5% WCF Unleashed is a great book for giving you the nomenclature and background you need to seek help elsewhere. There was also a chapter on WCF guidance that gives you some ideas for best practices that was quite refreshing as many books leave out these crucial tidbits. Interestingly, this book gives brief coverage of Windows Workflow and also CardSpace. Those chapters were not only an interesting aside, but quite useful when thinking about integrating WCF with these two new technologies from Microsoft.
There were a few small things that I want to mention. The authors provide all the code in the samples - even the code that is not necessarily relevant to the topic at hand. While I found this annoying at first, I did appreciate it later when the examples got a bit more complex. Also, the sample code was easy to miss. As of this review, the code download was from InformIT's site and not Sam's publishing site.
Overall, I would highly recommend Windows Communication Foundation Unleashed for anyone starting out with WCF who learns well from "How To" guides and sample code.
[...] All over the place and seldom where you want it to be.,
June 04, 2008 Sample does not work,
July 18, 2007In-depth, comprehensive and complete,
June 27, 2007 I haven't finished the entire thing (about 200 pages to go), but so far it has covered up to the most obscure detail you might need to know. I must admit, however, WPF has an incredibly steep learning curve and some of its features are terribly counter-intuitve, but it is an amazing technology. The book shows you the power of the technology with great examples and explanations of the details you thought you knew.Excellent coverage of the technology!,
May 19, 2007 Between the WPF Unleashed book and this one I am thoroughly impressed by the quality of this series. This book is easy to read with in depth information, very relevant. It covers a lot of useful techniques: in particular security, customization and integration with WF. A real step ahead of the other books. A Must have for all serious WCF programmer.
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