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Programming "Indigo" The Code Name for the Unified Framework for Building Service-Oriented Applications on the Microsoft® Windows® ... Microsoft Windows Platform (Pro-Developer)

Programming "Indigo" The Code Name for the Unified Framework for Building Service-Oriented Applications on the Microsoft® Windows® ... Microsoft Windows Platform (Pro-Developer)
By David Pallmann

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Get in-depth, hands-on guidance for programming “Indigo”, Microsoft’s unified framework for building service-oriented applications. Written by a key member of the Microsoft “Indigo” team, this book shows how to accomplish specific Web services tasks and prepare for the next wave of service-oriented development. This book is much more than a cookbook—in addition to procedures and code samples, each chapter includes detailed architectural guidance to help convey the big picture, along with best practices to promote successful working habits. The author also addresses the development life cycle, with guidance on design, coding, deployment, troubleshooting, and management. Learn how to take advantage of the framework’s service orientation and support of standard protocols—including HTTP, XML, and SOAP—to simplify the development of connected systems. 

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #586867 in Books
  • Published on: 2005-07-01
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 624 pages

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Useful for Initial undestanding of WCF4
An excellent book to get into Indigo, or Windows Communications Foundation. Easy to read, albeit with rather too much repetition. IIS and Self Hosted services are described. A pretty extensive description of how to configure Indigo Services and clients (Address, Bindings and Contracts) Good chapters on basic Security, Diagnostic aids. Finally three excellent case study samples are provided covering EAI, Chat Collaboration and 'real time' system. After getting through this introductory book, the SDK samples won't seem so daunting.

The downside is that, as an initial tutorial it falls into RPC style examples, and lacks a decent chapter on Message level services and true constract first development. As far as the author is concerned Interoperability means how to integrate with other Microsoft technologies (COM, ASMX, MSMQ ) rather than other platforms, and raw wsdl. Since there is rather a lot of repetition,100 pages could be saved and expended on Message level and wsdl first development.

But overall its a nice easy read into Indigo, and the above subjects probably deserve seperate books.