October book review: Essential WCF

Steve Resnick, Richard Crane, Chris Bowen
Essential Windows Communication Foundation. For .NET Framework 3.5.

This is a well-organized and easy-to-read introductory book on WCF. It provides a thorough overview of the principles behind building and consuming WCF web services and includes real-world examples illustrating how to leverage WCF framework in your applications. The topics covered in this book include:

  • Contracts: how to define complex structures and interfaces
  • Channels: how to configure channels and channel stacks
  • Bindings: how to choose communication protocols
  • Behaviors: how to manage instances, concurrency, and transactions as well as how to add your own custom behaviors
  • Serialization and Encoding: how .NET classes are serialized and represented on the wire
  • Hosting services in IIS, WAS, and managed .NET applications
  • Security options for authentication and transport- and message-level security for Internet and Intranet applications
  • Integration with other frameworks such as WF and Silverlight
  • Other topics: JSON, RSS/ATOM, peer networking, metadata publishing, diagnostics, and others
    • The authors did an excellent job explaining complex WCF concepts in simple terms and will help you jump right into building distributed applications in .NET. I highly recommend this book to .NET application developers and architects.

      Happy reading!

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