Windows Communication Foundation Unleashed (WCF) (Unleashed) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Craig Mcmurty, Marc Mercuri, Nigel Watling, Matt Winkler
Publisher: Sams
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ISBN: 0672329484
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.446
EAN: 9780672329487
ASIN: 0672329484
Publication Date: March 16, 2007
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<>Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is a new Microsoft technology for allowing software to communicate. Superseding earlier technologies, such as COM/DCOM, .NET Remoting, ASP.NET Web Services, and the Web Services Enhancements for .NET, WCF provides a single solution that is designed to always be the best way to exchange data among software entities. It also provides the infrastructure for developing the next generation of Web services, with support for the WS-* family of specifications, and a new serialization system for enhanced performance. For information technology professionals, WCF supplies an impressive array of administration tools that enterprises and software vendors can use to reduce the cost of ownership of their solutions without writing a single line of code. Most important, WCF finally delivers on the long-postponed promise of model-driven software development with the new software factory approach, by which one can iteratively design solutions in a modeling language and generate executables from lower-level class libraries. Windows Communication Foundation Unleashed is designed to be the best resource for software developers and architects working with WCF. The book guides readers toward a conceptual understanding of all the facilities of WCF and provides step-by-step guides to applying the technology to practical problems. - Introduces you to WCF and then takes you deep inside the technology
- Gives you nearly 100 best practices for programming with WCF
- Provides detailed coverage on how to version services that you will not find anywhere else
- Delves into using WCF together with Windows Workflow Foundation and Windows CardSpace
- Provides detailed coverage of the new high-performance data contract serializer for .NET
- Walks you through how to do secure, reliable, transacted messaging, and how to understand the options available
- Introduces you to federated, claims-based security, and shows you how to incorporate SAML and WS-Trust security token services into your architecture
- Provides step-by-step instructions for how to customize every aspect of WCF
- Shows you how to add your own behaviors, communication channels, message encoders, and transports
- Gives you options for implementing publish/subscribe solutions
- Walks you through how to do peer-to-peer communications with WCF
As evangelists at Microsoft for WCF, Craig McMurtry, Marc Mercuri, Nigel Watling, and Matt Winkler are uniquely positioned to write this book. They had access to the product as it was being built and to the development team itself. Their work with enterprises and outside software vendors has given them insight into how others see the software, how they want to apply it, and the challenges they face in doing so.
Foreword Introduction Part I Introducing the Windows Communication Foundation 2 The Fundamentals
3 Data Representation 4 Sessions, Reliable Sessions, Queues, and Transactions Part II Introducing the Windows Workflow Foundation 5 Fundamentals of the Windows Workflow Foundation 6 Using the Windows Communication Foundation and the Windows Part III Security 7 Security Basics 8 Windows CardSpace, Information Cards, and the Identity Metasystem 9 Securing Applications with Information Cards 10 Advanced Security Part IV Integration and Interoperability 11 Legacy Integration
12 Interoperability Part V Extending the Windows Communication Foundation 13 Custom Behaviors 14 Custom Channels 15 Custom Transports Part VI Special Cases 16 Publish/Subscribe Systems 17 Peer Communication 18 Representational State Transfer and Plain XML Services Part VII The Lifecycle of Windows Communication Foundation Applications 19 Manageability
20 Versioning
Part VIII Guidance
21 Guidance
Index
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 Horrible approach at WCF November 18, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
If you are a beginner at WCF, go somewhere else. They do not really show you how to implement a lot of the technology discussed. It is very academic and school-like, in a sense that it tells you whats available, but doesn't explain how to use it in a real world business. It is also all over the place and not very focused. The chapters and topics don't seem to flow synchronously. Whole sections are just code samples, that do not work by the way, with no explanation of how to even use the code in a real world app. There are some serious holes in this book. I highly do not recommend. Stick with the Apress books.
 Overall a winner! July 23, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
The Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is the latest offering from Microsoft to address the need of passing messages from one software component to another. Using the .NET platform, Microsoft has built a single framework that can encapsulate any type of message passing (at least all the major one's of which I am aware). By abstracting the important pieces of the communication challenge (transport mechanism, security, reliability, etc.), Microsoft has made building components that communicate via SOAP, WS-*, REST, binary, and other methods of communication a much simpler problem than it once was. One cautionary note: WCF is a deep technology, so do not expect to understand all the concepts at once. Having a solid object oriented programming background will help you understand some of the underpinnings of WCF.
If you are a developer looking to get specific examples of how to use WCF in different situations, this book provides the most common situations in which you are likely to run into WCF (think Web Services) as well as an introduction into some more rare circumstances (like building custom Behaviors, Transports, and Channels). The sheer breadth that book attempts to cover means that it does not fully cover each item presented in the table of contents. I personally would have like to have seen more coverage on WS-*. That being said, for the consulting and product work that I do, this book got me 95% of the way to solving all the challenges that I have faced to date. For the other 5% WCF Unleashed is a great book for giving you the nomenclature and background you need to seek help elsewhere. There was also a chapter on WCF guidance that gives you some ideas for best practices that was quite refreshing as many books leave out these crucial tidbits. Interestingly, this book gives brief coverage of Windows Workflow and also CardSpace. Those chapters were not only an interesting aside, but quite useful when thinking about integrating WCF with these two new technologies from Microsoft.
There were a few small things that I want to mention. The authors provide all the code in the samples - even the code that is not necessarily relevant to the topic at hand. While I found this annoying at first, I did appreciate it later when the examples got a bit more complex. Also, the sample code was easy to miss. As of this review, the code download was from InformIT's site and not Sam's publishing site.
Overall, I would highly recommend Windows Communication Foundation Unleashed for anyone starting out with WCF who learns well from "How To" guides and sample code.
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 All over the place and seldom where you want it to be. June 4, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book had been sitting on my bookshelf for sometime collecting dust. When I finally had a need to familiarize myself with WCF, I dug it out and ended up finding myself more confused than anything. The code samples do not work. There is no online update (The 45 day "Free" version on Safari is also incorrect). Four authors, with four different goals. The intro sections were written way too technical, and the higher chapters didn't give enough detail. The only chapter I liked was Chapter 21 - Guidance. A lot of good thought behind that chapter. Otherwise, I've learned more from Microsoft's MSDN site than this book.
Sample does not work July 18, 2007
2 out of 11 found this review helpful
Code sample provided does not work. The author doesn't seem to know the difference between a client and host! No source code is provided in a cd or by download.
In-depth, comprehensive and complete June 26, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I haven't finished the entire thing (about 200 pages to go), but so far it has covered up to the most obscure detail you might need to know. I must admit, however, WPF has an incredibly steep learning curve and some of its features are terribly counter-intuitve, but it is an amazing technology. The book shows you the power of the technology with great examples and explanations of the details you thought you knew.
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