Learning WCF: A Hands-on Guide | 
 enlarge | Author: Michele Bustamante
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Category: Book
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Pages: 607
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ISBN: 0596101627
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.446
EAN: 9780596101626
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Publication Date: May 24, 2007
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Product Description
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.
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 Learning WCF: A Hands-on Guide by Michele Bustamante January 4, 2009
First of all, the book is an excellent source for learning WCF, just like the book's title. I recently started a project that has to use WCF with VS 2008. There are a few WCF books out there, but they all are for VS 2005. This book has no exception. WCF in VS 2005 and VS 2008 are quite different. Michele updated all the labs source code to VS2008. When I ran into some problems, I sent some messages to Michele for helps. She replayed back very quickly and helped me to solve my problems. In the past, I have tried to send e-mail to authors of some books; most of them have never returned anything back to me. Michele is awesome and cares about the readers. Highly recommend for those who are learning WCF.
Excellent book December 4, 2008
I have read 'Learning WCF' cover to cover - and it is excellent. If a dog-eared and coffee-stained book is the mark of a handy reference then 'Learning WCF' is such a reference.
I have studied the labs and sample solutions (and had no trouble downloading and building them) and keep going back to these when flaws in my own WCF project appear.
I have also watched Michelle's video series (all 15 of them) which augmented my basic but workable understanding of WCF.
I can now read Juval's book and make progress because I have my basics in.
Thanks Michelle.
 To old to be of any use November 25, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
If you're running VS 2005 with .Net Framework 3.0, this might be a good learning tool. However, the word 'learning' may be a stretch in this case. I would expect additional content related to issues faced while trying the examples. There are none. If you can't get things to work while walking through the examples, you're on your own. In some cases, this might not be such a bad thing, but this book uses the first example and builds on it with every other example, continually adding more development work. For example, if you get stuck on Lab three, you won't be able to work on Lab four, five, six...
I cannot recommend this book if you're beyond VS 2005 and Framework 3.0
 Minor flaw hinders what could have been a great book. November 19, 2008
Pro - Easy to understand and having a hands-on approach is good. Nice slow pace for beginners.
Con - (i) I agree with the previous reader here that the organization of the book could be better. I also don't like to type in anything without knowing the reason why I type it. (ii) The organization of the source code is confusing. For example, the CompletedLabs in Chapter 1, there is a HelloIndigo_Part1 folder, a HelloIndigo_Part2 folder and a HelloIndigo_Part3 folder - I honestly could not tell which folder corresponds to which lab of the book.
My first and last book by this publisher October 9, 2008
1 out of 5 found this review helpful
I was looking for a good book on WCF and saw that this book received great reviews. I started out with their other book "Programming WCF Services" and thought maybe this one would be better to start out with. I am now returning both of them and will try either the Pro WCF: Practical Microsoft SOA Implementation (Pro) book by APRESS or the Professional WCF Programming: .NET Development with the Windows Communication Foundation (Programmer to Programmer) book.
I personally don't like the way this book is organized. You walk through several examples in the first chapter using terms and technologies that you haven't learned about yet - I found myself jumping around in the book to try to figure out what I just typed into Visual Studio and why I typed it. I like to learn a little bit about the concepts before I start getting into the examples.
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