Programming WCF Services: Design and Build Maintainable Service-Oriented Systems, 4th Edition

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.

Authors Juval Löwy—one of the world’s top .NET experts—and Michael Montgomery have revised this edition to include the newest productivity-enhancing features of .NET Framework 4.5, 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
• 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

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. WCF Essentials
Chapter 2. Service Contracts
Chapter 3. Data Contracts
Chapter 4. Instance Management