Microsoft Windows Communication Foundation Step by Step (Step By Step Developer Series)

By John Sharp

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 For customers who purchase an ebook version of this title, instructions for downloading the CD files can be found in the ebook. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0735623368
• ISBN13: 9780735623361
• Release Date: February 2007
• Publisher: Microsoft Press
• Length: 415 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 7.4" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

A great book on WCF

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...

Great book among others

I bought 2 other books on WCF and have scanned through a number of others and this one is, by far, the most useful and practical of the ones I have seen. I especially liked the chapter on making your WCF service robust, providing what I felt was very practical advice for a production level service. I would highly recommend this to anyone who is going to be building a production service and is just ramping up on WCF.

Outstanding resource

Normally I'm not thrilled with the "Step by Step" books from MS Press, this one is definately the exception. Though not every practice project worked "out of the box" the book details the "how to" create a WCF service in great detail with applicable examples in code. Very informative and I highly recommend it to anyone who needs to know how to get their WCF services up and running. Things I liked about the book were the...

A great book from start to finish

I've read quite a few books in the Step by Step series and am often a little frustrated with them. By their very nature, they walk you through specific scenarios and explain them to you. They typically do this quite well. And while I typically get a lot out of this, I often am left wanting for more. This isn't a knock on the series, it's just an inherent limitation. After all, no author can foresee every scenario a reader...