Professional WCF Programming: .NET Development with the Windows Communication Foundation
April 20, 2010 by BPELworld.com
- ISBN13: 9780470089842
- Condition: USED – VERY GOOD
- Notes:
Product Description
- Part of the new .NET 3.0 extensions to .NET 2.0, WCF provides a unified platform for building and running connected systems and will be used by almost every .NET or SQL Server developer
- Targeted to experienced developers who want to build service-oriented and transactional applications on the Microsoft platform that offer reliable and secure transactional messaging
- Addresses the WCF technologies as well as the next generation of configuring and deploying network-distributed services
- Key topics discussed include binding, contracts, clients, services, security, deployment, management, and hosting
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Pleasant to read and very useful at the same time.
Unfortunately Amazon took almost a month to deliver the book, although it was in stock.
Rating: 4 / 5
I’ve been using this book for several weeks now, to assist me in writing several WCF Services.
This book has served me well. Coming from a standard .Net background, with some basic Web Services behind me, I’ve now written many services that leverage WCF Security, extensibaility, interoperability.
Certain sections, while not as deep as I would like, proved an excellent primer into getting things done. For example, the section on integrating the ASP.Net Membership & Role providers with WCF services allowed the rapid creating of public facing, secure web services.
Scott focused quite a bit on the extensibility of WCF, which is nice. Personally I have more use for the turn-key scenarios, and have gotten much out of that aspect of the book.
I will also say I’ve found this book to have more depth, in the relevant areas, than many of the web site and blogs I’ve used as resources.
Overall: Excellent book that hightly relevant to the majority of work I’m doing with WCF.
Chris Mullins, MCSD.Net, MCPD:Enterprise, Microsoft C# MVP
http://www.coversant.net/blogs/cmullins
Rating: 4 / 5
1. Good explanation on SOA architecture, bindings, channels and over all WCF model
2. Would be good to have more code samples to use WCF service via JavaScript and other client application such as Silverlight
Rating: 4 / 5
This book is hard to follow.
It could be useful as quick reference for API details but I would not recommend this book to new learners.
You can find definitions on lots of classes and methods but it does not provide realistic code examples or diagrams that help visualize conceptual frame works.
Rating: 2 / 5
Simply put, this book isn’t worth your time. Even as an experienced programmer I had trouble keeping up with the out-of-order explanations, typos, terrible examples, and incorrect walk-throughs.
Rating: 1 / 5