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Microsoft Windows Communication Foundation 4.0 Cookbook for Developing SOA Applications
By: Steven Cheng;
Publisher: Packt Publishing
Pub. Date: October 20,2010
Print ISBN-13: 978-1-84968-076-9
Pages in Print Edition: 316
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Overview
Over 85 easy recipes for managing communication between applications
Master WCF concepts and implement them in real-world environments
An example-packed guide with clear explanations and screenshots to enable communication between applications and services and make robust SOA applications
Resolve frequently encountered issues effectively with simple and handy recipes
Explore the new features of the latest .NET 4.0 framework/Visual Studio 2010
In Detail
The Windows Communication Foundation 4.0 (WCF 4.0) is a .NET-based application programming interface for building and running connected systems. It enables secure and reliable communication among systems within an organization or across the Internet. This book deals with the difficult issues faced by a .NET developer while working with WCF.
WCF 4.0 is a communications infrastructure that unifies a broad array of distributed systems' capabilities in a composable, extensible architecture that supports multiple transports, messaging patterns, encodings, network topologies, and hosting models. This book is a collection of focused real-world recipes and covers basic recipes on topics such as working with contracts to more advanced topics such as extending WCF runtime. By the end of this book you will have valuable information that helps transform the potentially unproductive habits of .Net developers who work with WCF.
This book will take you through many concepts starting with complete support for contract-related design for WCF service development. You will learn to use WCF's built-in feature for building various service endpoints. Service hosting and configuration are important areas for building WCF services, especially at the service deployment stage, and are detailed in this book. You will find it easy to work with WCF client proxy generation and metadata publishing and discovery when you go through recipes such as customizing auto-generated service proxies.
The author then discusses the exchange of data in WCF service operation features, related to WCF data serialization. You will discover some useful tips for security in WCF service development and built-in features for developing concurrency control for your services built upon it.
One big plus is that you will learn to extend the existing WCF framework to achieve advanced functionality. You will find a dedicated chapter for RESTful and AJAX-enabled service development. Moving on, you will find several useful WCF service interoperability cases, which are important for a distributed service development platform. Towards the end of this book you will find some handy and useful diagnostic methods for troubleshooting.
Extend and secure the WCF framework and develop robust SOA applications with ease
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"Very comprehensive coverage of WCF" - by bougiefever on 08-MAR-2012
Reviewer Rating:
I used this book to help prepare for the 70-513 test, and it really helped a lot. Having working examples of every topic is invaluable when learning something new. I learn best by reading the code. Reading from the book and then seeing it in action for me helps to cement the knowledge.
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"concise and to the point" - by Anonymous on 19-APR-2011
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very effective and clear code samples on common WCF tasks. This book covers the new features of WCF 4.0 very well. I find myself reference this book very often.
However, one possible improvement is to explain a bit more for each receipt and suggest best practices as well.
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