In the process of development and integration of enterprise applications and systems, SOA is a flexible set of design principles and is becoming more and more popular.
Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is a framework for building service-oriented applications, which are based on .NET.
WCF 4 comes with a wide range of specific features as follows:
- Simplified configuration
- Standard endpoints
- IIS hosting without an SVC file
- WS-Discovery
- Routing service (previously included with Dublin)
- REST caching and Help page
- Workflow services
- Non-destructive queue receive
- Simple byte stream encoding
- ETW tracing
Besides giving an introduction of the basic WCF concepts (such as endpoint, contract, binding, and address), this book also covers advanced topics such as security, extensions of Runtime, and diagnostics. By the way, this book also introduces the new features of WCF 4.0. Every section is excellent and is based on a real WCF application. It also provides a lot of sample code to help the readers understand how to implement it. It's really a good handbook for WCF learners.
Thanks Steven for your hard work on this book.
Frank Xu Lei
MVP of Connected System Developer