Inside Windows Communication Foundation
April 20, 2010 by BPELworld.com
Product Description
Dive deep into the operation of Microsoft Windows Communication Foundation with this practical, hands-on book–and learn the intricacies of Windows Communication Foundation and service-oriented concepts and implementations. Fundamentally, services are not objects. Given the prevalence of the object-oriented paradigm over the past twenty years, experienced developers need to explore a new way of thinking about architecting solutions. Concise and practical, this guide explains the fundamentals of applications built with a service-oriented architecture and how the international standards for Web services are implemented in Windows Communication Foundation. Each chapter includes at least two practical code samples in Microsoft Visual C#®.
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Having had the need to learn WCF recently, I picked up Justin’s Book and it rocks.
First it’s not just a dump of the SDK (don’t you hate that?).
2nd the guy clearly has a personality and is a fluent writer, the book is very informative and keeps your interest throughout.
You can follow along with the book in easy to consume bite sized chunks, and be a WCF master before Tea.
Rating: 5 / 5
The author’s approach to teaching you WCF is to first tell you why you’d even want to know about WCF in the first place and then tell you how it works. I think this is a great approach and I wish more authors would write like this. If you want to understand the *why* and the *how* this book is for you.
Rating: 5 / 5
If you need a book to learn how to extend and use WCF as a plattform developer, not just use it, this is the book.
Rating: 5 / 5
Some other posters have commented about the lack of examples or guidance for “real-world” applications. I don’t think that is the intent of this book. As a developer who has been using WCF on and off for about 1.5 years now, this book has given me greater insight into the role that WCF plays in the SOA world, both in .net to .net environment as well as cross-platform. Even after working with WCF for more than a year I still sometimes find it hard to explain to people exactly what WCF is, why it’s an improvement over asmx or remoting, etc. This book has provided me with the understanding to be able explain that better to others.
Rating: 5 / 5
This book lacks practical examples. It is very much like reading MSDN – a run down of interfaces and classes and very short code snippets. There are no real-life examples.
The book basically covers Message, Channels and Channel messages but only makes cryptic comments on how these concepts apply to real life uses.
Because the contents are similar to those you find MSDN, I recomend this book as reference. If you want a practical book that shows how to use WCF in real-life applications, this book is not it.
In my opinion this book is boring and over priced.
Thank you.
Rating: 2 / 5