| Overview
This easy-to-use introduction to Microsoft Windows Communication
Foundation (WCF) is ideal for developers who want to learn to build
services on a company network or as part of an enterprise system.
Built into Windows Vista and Longhorn, and available for Windows XP
and Windows 2003, WCF provides a platform for service-oriented
architecture (SOA) that enables secure and reliable communication
among systems within an organization or across the Internet. With
WCF, software developers can focus on their business applications
and not the plumbing required to connect them. Furthermore, with
WCF developers can learn a single programming API to achieve
results previously provided by ASMX, Enterprise Services and .NET
Remoting. Learning WCF removes the complexity of using this
platform by providing detailed answers, explanations and code
samples for the most common questions asked by software
developers.
Windows Communication Foundation (or WCF, formerly code name
"Indigo") provides a set of programming APIs that make it easy to
build and consume secure, reliable, and transacted services. This
platform removes the need for developers to learn different
technologies such as ASMX, Enterprise Services and .NET Remoting,
to distribute system functionality on a corporate network or over
the Internet. The first truly service-oriented platform, WCF
provides innovations that decouple service design and development
from deployment and distribution - creating a more flexible and
agile environment. WCF also encapsulates all of the latest web
service standards for addressing, security, reliability and more.
Editorial ReviewsProduct DescriptionThis easy-to-use introduction to Microsoft Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is ideal for developers who want to learn to build services on a company network or as part of an enterprise system. Built into Windows Vista and Longhorn, and available for Windows XP and Windows 2003, WCF provides a platform for service-oriented architecture (SOA) that enables secure and reliable communication among systems within an organization or across the Internet. With WCF, software developers can focus on their business applications and not the plumbing required to connect them. Furthermore, with WCF developers can learn a single programming API to achieve results previously provided by ASMX, Enterprise Services and .NET Remoting. Learning WCF removes the complexity of using this platform by providing detailed answers, explanations and code samples for the most common questions asked by software developers. Windows Communication Foundation (or WCF, formerly code name "Indigo") provides a set of programming APIs that make it easy to build and consume secure, reliable, and transacted services. This platform removes the need for developers to learn different technologies such as ASMX, Enterprise Services and .NET Remoting, to distribute system functionality on a corporate network or over the Internet. The first truly service-oriented platform, WCF provides innovations that decouple service design and development from deployment and distribution - creating a more flexible and agile environment. WCF also encapsulates all of the latest web service standards for addressing, security, reliability and more. |
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Reader Reviews From Amazon (Ranked by 'Helpfulness') Average Customer Rating: based on 24 reviews. A great place to start, 2009-06-04 Reviewer rating: The examples and online access make this a nice guide to WCF. Even better is the author responded to my question via email! | A must have WCF book, 2009-05-06 Reviewer rating: As I am working through the WCF learning process, I have been exposed to a number of books and resources, and I wanted to let you know I think your work has been the most helpful to me.
It is clear you took great pains to write a book with specific coding exercises matching concepts as progress. This is in contrast with every other WCF book that does have code, but those examples don't tie back in a basic way. The problem, at least for me, is when I am learning something, is how do I practically apply it. The other books give you code examples, but you have to figure out how to put it all together on your own, and a big part of WCF is not only specific islands of code, but how they all talk to each other.
So, thank you very much for your efforts I am finding them very helpful to me.
| Excellent labs - confusing writing style, 2009-04-16 Reviewer rating: This book had the best labs of any technical book I have read/used. Usually labs, especially the MS Series, are extremely simple and don't even scratch the surface of the topics. The labs in this book are multi-step, with explanations of each step and what the code does. Then the author explains even further what the labs do. I think I got a pretty good hands-on experience with this book.
This book could use some improvement in writing style, or just plain writing composition. When the author was discussing the labs the writing was usually pretty good and clear on point. However, when not talking about the labs, the writing was very hard to follow. The difficulty was not due to technical content, but much more to do with poor sentence and paragraph composition. At times, it reminded me of students' writing term papers for their professor. The writing seemed more focused on expressing what the person knew, rather than presenting the information in a way that could be learned. I got the first edition of this book, perhaps th second or subsequent editions have rewritten parts that were poorly written.
In summary, even with the negative of the confusing writing style in some areas, this book is well worth getting for the superb labs and explanation of the labs. | Solid , 2009-03-31 Reviewer rating: A good, solid introduction to WCF. However, the security chapter was very poor - hence the 4, rather than 5 stars. | A Terrible Book, 2009-03-10 Reviewer rating: Don't buy this book if you are hoping to learn WCF. The examples don't work as specified in the text. It is very, very frustrating!! This is a terrible problem for a book that has a primary purpose of teaching a technology. There must be a better book out there, or at least one where the examples have actually been tested.
This is surprising because O'Reilly usually publishes very high quality material. |
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