Programming WCF Services, Third Edition

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Programming WCF Services, Third Edition: Mastering WCF and the Azure AppFabric Service Bus
by Juval Lowy

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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

Publisher: O'Reilly
Page Count: 875
ISBN10: 0596805489
ISBN13: 9780596805487
Cover: Paperback
Media: None
Pub Date: 08/28/2010