Windows Communication Foundation 4 Step by Step

by John Sharp

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 to:

Build and host SOAP and REST services Maintain service contracts and data contracts Control configuration and communications programmatically Implement message encryption, authentication, and authorization Manage identity with Windows CardSpace Begin working with Windows Workflow Foundation to create scalable and durable business services Implement service discovery and message routing Optimize performance with service throttling, encoding, and streaming Integrate WCF services with ASP.NET clients and enterprise services components

Your Step by Step digital content includes:

Practice exercises Downloadable code samples Fully searchable online edition of the book -- with unlimited access on the Web

Genres: Technology

740 pages, Kindle Edition

First published November 18, 2010

About the author

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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.

Reviews

[Jason Wilson · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a thoroughly worthwhile read for WCF. I definitely recommend it.

[Rafael · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book to learn step by step WCF configurations and to create WCF services for different situations. also Explain a little about the Ws* Standards

[Mark Stone · Rating 4 out of 5]

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.