Pro WCF: Practical Microsoft SOA Implementation (Pro) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Amit Bahree, Shawn Cicoria, Dennis Mulder, Nishith Pathak, Chris Peiris
Publisher: Apress
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
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Pages: 512
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Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 7 x 1.2
ISBN: 1590597028
Dewey Decimal Number: 005
EAN: 9781590597026
ASIN: 1590597028
Publication Date: January 15, 2007
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Product Description
Part of Microsofts radical new WinFX API is the Indigo foundation, more formally known as the Windows Communication Foundation, or WCF. Pro WCF: Practical Microsoft SOA Implementation is a complete guide to WCF from the SOA architecture perspective and shows you why WCF is important to web service development and architecture. The book covers the unified programming model, reliable messaging, security, the peer-to-peer programming model, and more. Youll also learn how to move your current DCOM and .NET remoting applications to WCF, and how to integrate those applications with new WCF-based applications. Youll want to get ahold of a copy because it - Contains a comprehensive WCF programming model
- Explains how queue management and reliable messaging work in WCF
- Discusses implementing transaction support in WCF
- Shows how to make WCF services interoperable with other SOA offerings
- Thoroughly covers WCF security topics and concerns
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 Not readable. Disappointment from Apress. April 25, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book was poorly edited. After reading nearly every paragraph, I just want to rewrite it for readability. The book makes easy concepts difficult due to the writing style of the author. A sample sentence: "WCF provides you with a number of settings to implement fairly sophisticated means of applying network congestion detection,timeout intervals,retry counts,ordering,and so on." Lets see.. what? "...settings to implement sophisticated means of applying..."? This is a really simple idea that the author has butchered with his delivery. Another complaint: glossing over an idea, and then saying "It really is pretty much as simple as that." Well, which one? "really is" or "pretty much"? It can't be both. Just a case in point - this book went through no editing whatsoever.
 Good introduction to WCF April 8, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I got this book, because I had learned WF from another book in the series which I thought was exceptional. This book has lots of examples, and it will be an excellent reference once I am done reading it the first time.
The language isn't as clear as the WF book, and there is an extensive use of "buzz words" to describe the advantages of SOA development in the early chapters that don't really give you a sense that you're learning anything.
In the end however, they manage to give a very concise, comprehensible rundown on what is a pretty complex subject. I would recommend this book for anyone wanting to learn WCF.
Better books are available June 15, 2007
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
I must say that this book is not up to the standard I've come to expect from recent APress titles on .NET. I'd love to give you details, but the simple fact is that I haven't found it to be of much use as a reference.
While it could be a little better, I recommend Programming WCF Services (Programming) instead. It serves well as a reference and a reader.
terrible May 31, 2007
4 out of 10 found this review helpful
This book's puslisher cannot be Apress.
you don't buy definitely.You can read msdn instead of this book.
 Noot good enough May 25, 2007
3 out of 7 found this review helpful
Finding couple of articles in MSDN Magazine will be much clearer than reading this book.
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