- Paperback: 784 pages
- Publisher: O'Reilly Media; 2 edition (13 Nov 2008)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0596521308
- ISBN-13: 978-0596521301
- Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 17.8 x 4.1 cm
- Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 394,596 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Building Service Oriented Applications with Windows Communication Foundation
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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
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Format:Paperback
This is the most thorough material I have found about WCF. It takes you at least one step further than most other materials.
Format:Paperback
I don't find this book very useful, it's tone is long-winded, and it wastes too much space printing interfaces etc word-for-word, which is unnecessary.
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I bought this to get a detailed understanding of WCF and how it can be adapted; and I've found it disappointing in that respect.
My primary criticism is that the book seems to be a collection of special cases or tool-oriented tricks. For example, the first section in the chapter on service contracts discusses operation overloading, and what specific attributes/configuration you can use to deal with it - great, but I'd rather read a more fundamental discussion on service contracts and interoperability than just a few syntax examples for a relatively unlikely use case. This chapter also contains the bulk of the book's discussion on metadata - six pages - which I think is superficial for a concept that I would consider to be a chapter in its own right. I would make similar criticisms for a lot of the book.
Unfortunately (based just on reading this book) I now have a rather dim perception of WCF itself - it seems like a clumsy conglomeration of stuff with no real coherence to the design. I hope that this view improves with further experience.
My primary criticism is that the book seems to be a collection of special cases or tool-oriented tricks. For example, the first section in the chapter on service contracts discusses operation overloading, and what specific attributes/configuration you can use to deal with it - great, but I'd rather read a more fundamental discussion on service contracts and interoperability than just a few syntax examples for a relatively unlikely use case. This chapter also contains the bulk of the book's discussion on metadata - six pages - which I think is superficial for a concept that I would consider to be a chapter in its own right. I would make similar criticisms for a lot of the book.
Unfortunately (based just on reading this book) I now have a rather dim perception of WCF itself - it seems like a clumsy conglomeration of stuff with no real coherence to the design. I hope that this view improves with further experience.
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