Synopses & Reviews
Programming WCF Services is the authoritative, bestselling introduction to Microsoft's unified platform for developing service-oriented applications (SOA) on Windows. Hailed as the most definitive treatment of WCF available, this relentlessly practical book provides insight, not documentation, to help you learn the topics and skills you need for building WCF-based applications that are maintainable, extensible, and reusable.
Author Juval Lowy, Microsoft software legend and participant in WCF's original strategic design review, revised this new edition for the latest productivity-enhancing features of C# 3.0 and the .NET 3.5 SP1 Framework. The book also contains Lowy's ServiceModelEx, a framework of useful utilities, tools, and helper classes that let you simplify and automate many tasks, and extend WCF as well. With this book, you will:
- Learn about WCF architecture and essential building blocks, including key concepts such as reliability and transport session
- Use built-in features such as service hosting, instance management, concurrency management, transactions, disconnected queued calls, and security
- Take advantage of relevant design options, tips, and best practices in Lowy's ServiceModelEx framework to increase your productivity and the quality of your WCF services
- Learn the rationale behind particular design decisions, and discover poorly documented and little-understood aspects of SOA development
By teaching you the "why" along with the "how" of WCF programming,
Programming WCF Services not only will help you master WCF, it will enable you to become a better software engineer.
Synopsis
Teach yourself the essentials of Windows Communication Foundation 4 -- one step at a time. With Step by Step, you get hands-on guidance for creating the Web services you need to implement robust business applications for Windows. This book provides practical hands-on examples to help you grasp concepts and apply techniques to the real world.
- Learn how to build and host a Web service
- Design service contracts and data contracts
- Control configuration and communications programmatically
- Implement message encryption, authentication, and authorization
- Manage identity with Windows CardSpace
- Use Windows Workflow Foundation to implement complex, scalable business services
- Optimize performance with service throttling, encoding, and streaming
- Use ASP.NET and COM+ to create services that interoperate
Your companion content includes:
- Practice exercises
- Code samples
- Fully searchable online edition of the book -- with unlimited access on the Web
Synopsis
Your hands-on, step-by-step guide to building connected, service-oriented applications. Teach yourself the essentials of Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) 4 -- one step at a time. With this practical, learn-by-doing tutorial, you get the clear guidance and hands-on examples you need to begin creating Web services for robust Windows-based business applications.
Discover how to:
- Build and host SOAP and REST services
- Maintain service contracts and data contracts
- Control configuration and communications programmatically
- Implement message encryption, authentication, and authorization
- Manage identity with Windows CardSpace
- Begin working with Windows Workflow Foundation to create scalable and durable business services
- Implement service discovery and message routing
- Optimize performance with service throttling, encoding, and streaming
- Integrate WCF services with ASP.NET clients and enterprise services components
Your Step by Step digital content includes:
- Practice exercises
- Downloadable code samples
- Fully searchable online edition of the book -- with unlimited access on the Web
About the Author
Juval Lowy is a software architect and the principal of IDesign, a company specializing in .NET architecture consulting and advanced .NET training. Juval is Microsoft's Regional Director for the Silicon Valley, working with Microsoft on helping the industry adopt .NET. Juval participates in the Microsoft internal design reviews for future versions of .NET and related technologies. Juval published numerous articles, regarding almost every aspect of .NET development, and is a frequent presenter at development conferences. Microsoft recognized Juval as a Software Legend as one of the world's top .NET experts and industry leaders. Contact him at www.idesign.net
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Introducing Windows Communication Foundation
- Chapter 2: Hosting a WCF Service
- Chapter 3: Making Applications and Services Robust
- Chapter 4: Protecting an Enterprise WCF Service
- Chapter 5: Protecting a WCF Service over the Internet
- Chapter 6: Maintaining Service Contracts and Data Contracts
- Chapter 7: Maintaining State and Sequencing Operations
- Chapter 8: Implementing Services by Using Workflows
- Chapter 9: Supporting Transactions
- Chapter 10: Implementing Reliable Sessions
- Chapter 11: Programmatically Controlling the Configuration and Communications
- Chapter 12: Implementing One-Way and Asynchronous Operations
- Chapter 13: Implementing a WCF Service for Good Performance
- Chapter 14: Discovering Services and Routing Messages
- Chapter 15: Building REST Services
- Chapter 16: Using a Callback Contract to Publish and Subscribe to Events
- Chapter 17: Managing Identity with Windows CardSpace
- Chapter 18: Integrating with ASP.NET Clients and Enterprise Services Components