Microsoft Windows Communication Foundation Step by Step (Step By...

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 448 pages
• Published by: Microsoft Press January 31, 2007
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0735623368
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0735623361
• Book Dimensions: 8.8 x 7.4 x 1.4 inches
• Weighs: 2.1 pounds

Reader Reviews
I've read quite a few books in the Step by Step series and am often a little frustrated with them. By their very nature, they walk you through specific scenarios and explain them to you. They typically do this quite well. And while I typically get a lot out of this, I often am left wanting for more. This isn't a knock on the series, it's just an inherent limitation. After all, no author can foresee every scenario a reader might have. This book was a little different though. The first three chapters were pretty typical in that they were the basic use cases you'd expect. THen you hit Chapter 4 "Protecting an Enterprise Service" and things get interesting fast. From start to finish, just about every single security question I had was answered here. Chapter 5 builds on it and expands the scenarios to the internet and by the time you get through those two chapters, you'll 'get' security and WCF. The book then goes onto Service Contracts, State management, Transactions and Reliable sessions. I was a little underwhelmed with the discussion on Reliable Sessions but it was decent. Chapter ten goes on to using configuration to manage services and man, this really helped me to make progress. It's so easy to screw up simple things in configuration and end up hitting a wall, but this got me through it. Chapter 11 goes on to discuss OneWay/Asyn operations (which is one of the more straightforward aspects of WCF). Nothing dramatic here but again, a pretty good discussion. Chatper 12 goes onto Performance. Superb! Too often when I was learning the WCF, I was satisfied to get things working and didn't worry nearly enough about performance. Eventually though, you're going to have to deal with Performance and this chapter gets you there. Another great touch was Chatper 15 - Managing Identity with Windows Cardspace. I'm not personally using Cardspace but this chapter was just plain cool and a great touch. All in all, this is the best book in the Step by Step series I've ever read. There's some stiff competition to be the 'best' of the WCF books out there, but this book is definitely going to be a contender. Comment | | (Report this)