| | |  | TCP/IP | Home » » » Programming WCF Services: Mastering WCF and the Azure AppFabric Service Bus | | | | | | | Product Promotions: | | | | | Description: | | Programming WCF Services is the authoritative, bestselling guide to Microsoft's unified platform for developing modern service-oriented applications on Windows. Hailed as the definitive treatment of WCF, this book provides unique insight, rather than documentation, to help you learn the topics and skills you need for building WCF-based applications that are maintainable, extensible, and reusable. Author Juval Löwy -- one of the world's top .NET experts -- revised this edition to include the newest productivity-enhancing features of .NET Framework 4 and the Azure AppFabric Service Bus, as well as the latest WCF ideas and techniques. By teaching you the why and the how of WCF programming, Programming WCF Services will help you master WCF and make you a better software engineer. - Learn about WCF architecture and essential building blocks, including key concepts such as reliability and transport sessions
- Use built-in features such as service hosting, instance and concurrency management, transactions, disconnected queued calls, security, and discovery
- Master the Windows Azure AppFabric Service Bus, the most revolutionary piece of the new cloud computing initiative
- Increase your productivity and the quality of your WCF services by taking advantage of relevant design options, tips, and best practices in Löwy's ServiceModelEx framework
- Discover the rationale behind particular design decisions, and delve into rarely understood aspects of WCF development
"If you choose to learn WCF, you've chosen well. If you choose to learn with the resource and guidance of Juval Löwy, you've done even better... there are few people alive today who know WCF as well."
--Ron Jacobs, Senior Technical Evangelist for WCF, Microsoft Corporation
| | | Product Details: | | | Author:
| Juval Lowy | | Paperback:
| 910 pages | | Publisher:
| O'Reilly Media | | Publication Date:
| August 30, 2010 | | Language:
| English | | ISBN:
| 0596805489 | | Product Length:
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21 of 22 found the following review helpful:
 When they say mastering, they mean itDec 22, 2010
By Average Guy
"Music Lover"
The book is quite thorough and detailed, but jumps right in to specific details that assume that you have completely mastered the basics. Don't look here if you are trying to build your first WCF application, but rather if you have one built or working, and want to delve into the finer points of security and other considerations.
I would have liked to have seen more guidance from the authors on the patterns for using the book. "once your app is working, then look at security in this way..., then look at transport considerations in this way...". That would make the book more of a directive tool and less of a reference-only tool.
11 of 13 found the following review helpful:
 This book is indispensable for WCFMar 26, 2011
By Kad
I've recently written two applications using WCF. One without the benefit of this book and one with. Without this book, I used search engines and Microsoft reference material and blogs. I got a lot of data but precious little knowledge. I finished the project and it works. However, I knew my WCF skills were not yet where they needed to be.
With the second application, I began with this book. My confidence level was much higher by the time I began coding and testing. The application uses DLL injection and both ends are in Windows forms. I surmounted all problems with the rich detail in this book. It's rare to find a book that you prefer over all the data that can be obtained from search engines. My book has many, many highlighted sentences I refer to during development. It is indispensable.
5 of 5 found the following review helpful:
 Good buySep 02, 2011
By Priya
I bought this book especially to get details about Security in WCF, which is very hard to find. Most of the books just give few lines about Security and then refer you to other books. This book did justice to the topic and provided adequate details for me to now go and get details for specific security features I want to implement.
Liked the format of the book. Starts explanation from a basic level and then gets into more details, but not too much to bore you.
Definitely recommend it.
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
Excellent book, but not for beginnersJan 12, 2012
By H. Zhang
"hz"
I just want to write a very brief review to echo the views of many other reviewers of all editions of this book.
1.This is a comprehensive book on WCF for people who want to have a thorough understanding of WCF.
2.Beginners should avoid this book because it may make WCF so intimidating that, I am afraid, some may seek alternatives to WCF after a look at this book. Microsoft has done a great job in making WCF so easy to implement that some simple use of web services can be implemented literally in minutes both on the server side and the client side. This book is great for advanced users who want a deep understanding of WCF. One may never need such a book if he only has some light use of web services.
A great strength of WCF is that it allows the consumption of general SOAP based web service to be as easy as consuming WCF services. This is one of significant advantages making .Net stand out as a superior framework. Unfortunately, this book does not elaborate on this. Just one or two pages explaining SOAP, WS1.2, Addressing 1.0, etc. would be very beneficial to readers.
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
Very complete book!Jun 21, 2011
By Jan
I use Mr. Lowy's book to teach my WCF classes (in the Netherlands & Belgium). What I like about the book is the incredible amount of details, which makes it an excellent reference book. It took me a little effort to find the accompanying source code files, but once I found them (at [...]), I really liked them as there is a complete sample application to almost every topic mentioned in the book.
There are no exercises or walkthroughs in the book, so I created my own, partly based on the source code files just mentioned.
Visit my site to hire me as a .NET teacher: [...].
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