Your hands-on, step-by-step guide to building connected, service-oriented applications.Teach yourself the essentials of Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) 4 -- one step at a time. With this practical, learn-by-doing tutorial, you get the clear guidance and hands-on examples you need to begin creating Web services for robust Windows-based business applications.Discover how and host SOAP and REST servicesMaintain service contracts and data contractsControl configuration and communications programmaticallyImplement message encryption, authentication, and authorizationManage identity with Windows CardSpaceBegin working with Windows Workflow Foundation to create scalable and durable business servicesImplement service discovery and message routingOptimize performance with service throttling, encoding, and streamingIntegrate WCF services with ASP.NET clients and enterprise services componentsYour Step by Step digital content exercisesDownloadable code samplesFully searchable online edition of the book -- with unlimited access on the Web
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John R. Sharp worked as a linguist and analyst for the U.S. Government for over 40 years, teaching and writing curricula for Modern Standard Arabic and several Arabic dialects. During his studies in Cairo, he became fascinated with Egyptology and the ancient Egyptian language, but was frustrated at not finding a good, searchable index of pharaohs' cartouches (name rings), so he decided to make one himself, a project that took several decades. He lives in Hawaii.
Bent more towards Windows Forms than Web Forms, but no matter which you use, this book does a good job of explaining the fundamentals of WCF and has a fairly extensive explanation of WCF Services.