Inside Windows Communication Foundation (Pro Developer) [Paperback]

Justin Smith (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 16, 2007 | ISBN-10: 0735623066 | ISBN-13: 978-0735623064 | Edition: 1

Dig into Windows Communication Foundation internals—and uncover the power of service-oriented design. This practical guide delivers in-depth insights and plenty of code samples to help you master the intricacies of developing and implementing connected applications.

Discover how to:

• Use service-oriented concepts to build a reliable messaging infrastructure
• Build support for ever-evolving messaging transports, protocols, and functionality
• Develop and listen on multiple endpoints
• Add messaging functionality with message exchange patterns, topologies, and choreographies
• Serialize, deserialize, encode, and decode Message objects
• Generate industry-standard documents with service, data, and message contracts
• Build stacks of channel factory and listener objects with binding types
• Develop channel layer constructs and manage them over their lifetime
• Create custom channels with the Windows Communication Foundation API

PLUS—Get Microsoft Visual C# code samples on the Web

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Key Book Benefits:

-Delivers practical, hands-on guidance for understanding how Windows Communication Foundation implements standards that enable distributed application solutions
-Features timely and concise coverage of service-oriented concepts and implementations
-Includes at least two practical C# code samples per chapter

About the Author

Justin Smith is a trainer and consultant at Wintellect, where he is currently authoring the Wintellect Windows Communication Foundation course. Before joining Wintellect, Justin worked as an independent consultant and trainer and authored several multi-day .NET courses. Justin is also the cofounder of Lighthouse Business Solutions, where he architected the DocView and PaperTrail distributed document management systems. He was also a full-time developer at Engineering Animation Incorporated (EAI), where he worked on the VisView distributed CAD viewing product. After graduating from Georgia Tech, Justin worked at Parametric Technology Corporation (PTC) as a systems developer and consultant.

Justin was a speaker at the Atlanta "Whidbey" launch event, the Secure Software Forum Workshop Series, DevWeek 2006 in London, England, and MSDN® Code Camp, as well as numerous user group events.

Product Details

• Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: Microsoft Press; 1 edition (May 16, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0735623066
• ISBN-13: 978-0735623064
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.6 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #259,147 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good Reference, Poor Learning Tool, July 10, 2008

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Benjamin E. Reece "BenjaminReece23" (Mesa, AZ) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Inside Windows Communication Foundation (Pro Developer) (Paperback)

While the author definitely has a command of the subject matter, this is perhaps the book's downfall. The book is written as less of a learning aide and as more of a reference to WCF. After reading it, I would say the target audience is an experienced SOA developer migrating over to WCF.

While I think it is a little better than MSDN, it is definitely not a casual read. SOA / Distributed-app beginners beware: if you are wanting a quick guide to getting things started in WCF, this is NOT the book for you. Experienced developers in distributed or SOA technologies might want to take a look at this book, however.

If it were a book about flying airplanes, the subject matter would discuss the minutia of avionics, flight control systems, and instrumentation; but provide very little about flight procedures.

I gave it 4 stars because it is definitely a solid book, but for the appropriate reader. If you have experience with SOA, then it is worth your time. If not, look elsewhere first and make this your 2nd or 3rd book on the subject.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars interesting details but so what?, July 12, 2008

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Techie Evan - See all my reviews

This review is from: Inside Windows Communication Foundation (Pro Developer) (Paperback)

The book does tell you how some parts of the WCF are implemented but the extra information is not uniformly useful, and without additional guidance on how to apply the newly found "insider" information, the book misses an opportunity to be a really good teaching tool.

9 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Simply a Great, December 10, 2007

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Timmy_A - See all my reviews

This review is from: Inside Windows Communication Foundation (Pro Developer) (Paperback)

One of the greatest 'Inside' book I've ever read. Author did a fantastic job.

Excellent writing, sapmles are easy to understand also for not so experienced WCF programmers like me (this was my second book I've read about WCF after Programming WCF Services (Programming) by Juval Lowy).

Book has just 'only' 300 pages but it's because there is absolutely no fluffy filler like in many IT books.

I think this book is fully comparable to Jeffrey Richter's legendary programming books.

I also suggest to read Windows Communication Foundation Unleashed.