Programming WCF Services: Mastering WCF and the Azure Appfabric Service Bus

By Juval Lowy and Michael Montgomery

Book Overview

Programming WCF Services is the authoritative, bestselling guide to Microsoft's unified platform for developing modern service-oriented applications on Windows. Hailed as the definitive treatment of WCF, this book provides unique insight, rather than documentation, to help you learn the topics and skills you need for building WCF-based applications that are maintainable, extensible, and reusable.

Author Juval L wy -- one of the world's top .NET experts -- revised this edition to include the newest productivity-enhancing features of .NET Framework 4 and the Azure AppFabric Service Bus, as well as the latest WCF ideas and techniques. By teaching you the why and the how of WCF programming, Programming WCF Services will help you master WCF and make you a better software engineer. Learn about WCF architecture and essential building blocks, including key concepts such as reliability and transport sessions Use built-in features such as service hosting, instance and concurrency management, transactions, disconnected queued calls, security, and discovery Master the Windows Azure AppFabric Service Bus, the most revolutionary piece of the new cloud computing initiative Increase your productivity and the quality of your WCF services by taking advantage of relevant design options, tips, and best practices in L wy's ServiceModelEx framework Discover the rationale behind particular design decisions, and delve into rarely understood aspects of WCF development

"If you choose to learn WCF, you've chosen well. If you choose to learn with the resource and guidance of Juval L wy, you've done even better... there are few people alive today who know WCF as well."

--Ron Jacobs, Senior Technical Evangelist for WCF, Microsoft Corporation

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0596805489
• ISBN13: 9780596805487
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: O'Reilly Media
• Length: 908 Pages
• Weight: 3.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 7.0" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Well done Juval!

This book was actually my first exposure to WCF. Many people describe it as a more advanced WCF book than the other more basic ones out there. Although I tend to agree that it is more advanced than other books, I disagree with the implicit suggestion that you shouldn't start with this book if your a beginner. I generally gain better command over a subject by going deep enough to understand what's going on, and what capabilities...

Excellent book

This book is excellent. I find myself reading chapters over and over not because they are difficult to understand, but because they are chock-full of useful information. This is information not found in other WCF books and it really highlights the fact that Juval was very close to the WCF code and the WCF developers. Keep in mind this book will not hold your hand through coding a WCF service. If you need that level of...

Comments from another WCF author

I read with interest some of the comments from other reviewers, and I feel that there is some slight clarification required on the positioning of this book. I don't normally comment on other authors' works, but I believe that one or two of the criticisms in other reviews are possibly a little misplaced. Now, as author of WCF Step By Step, this might sound like I am blowing my own trumpet a little, but this is not the intention...

A must-buy for WCF Software Engineers from "The Legend"

The legend has done it again!! Juval's other books on .NET software engineering were good, but this book exceeds them all in content, precision, and examples. The book follows closely to his Master WCF courses he has taught in the past. The book's first chapter on WCF Essentials starts the reader off on the proper trail to mastering WCF properly. The examples are concise and helpful. The book is a great read and extrememly...

Very well done

I just bought this book and have breezed through most of it. So far, AFAIK, I've picked up each WCF book out there and while all of them are quite good, I was very glad I got this one. Very glad indeed. If there's one thing this book really brings to the table it's that it really explains architectural 'big picture' aspects of WCF. Reminiscent of how Rocky Lhotka used his Business Objects books to walk through the CSLA,...