Product Description

Part of Microsofts radical new WinFX API is the Indigo foundation, more formally known as the Windows Communication Foundation, or WCF. Pro WCF: Practical Microsoft SOA Implementation is a complete guide to WCF from the SOA architecture perspective and shows you why WCF is important to web service development and architecture. The book covers the unified programming model, reliable messaging, security, the peer-to-peer programming model, and more. Youll also learn how to move your current DCOM and .NET remoting applications to WCF, and how to integrate those applications with new WCF-based applications. Youll want to get ahold of a copy because it Contains a comprehensive WCF programming modelExplains how queue management and reliable messaging work in WCFDiscusses implementing transaction support in WCFShows how to make WCF services interoperable with other SOA offeringsThoroughly covers WCF security topics and concerns

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #187454 in Books
• Published on: 2007-01-17
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 512 pages

About the Author
Chris Peiris, .NET MVP, has a masters degree in IT, and bachelor
of computing and bachelor of accounting degrees from Monash University,
Victoria, Australia. Chris currently works for Avanade as a solutions
architect. Chris has coauthored many books on web services, UDDI, C#, IIS,
Java, and security topics. He has written many articles, reviews, and
columns for various online publications including DevX, 15 Seconds, Wrox
Press, and ASP Today.

He is also a frequent speaker at professional developer conferences on
Microsoft technologies. Chris has developed large-scale integration
solutions for financial institutions, G2G, B2B, and media groups since
1995. Chris's current passions include WCF, WinFX, IBM Message Broker, and
EAI. He lives with his family in Conder, ACT, in Australia.

Dennis Mulder started his career in 1997, choosing to dedicate himself to
Microsoft technology. As an early adopter of Microsoft technology, Dennis
has kept pace with certification challenges and succeeded in getting
several certifications. In August 2004, he started work with Avanade, a
Microsoft and Accenture joint venture. Currently he is focused on a few
areas of the Microsoft platform, specifically service orientation,
integration, and infrastructure for development.

As a consultant based in the Netherlands, Dennis works with enterprise
customers to solve their challenges by leveraging the power of the
Microsoft platform. Besides his role as a principal consultant, Dennis is a
solution manager and evangelist focusing on several of the Avanade assets.
Every now and then, he writes articles for Microsoft .NET Magazine,
a Dutch publication. He is a frequent speaker at Dutch Microsoft
conferences and usergroups, and he has become an INETA speaker as of early
2006.

Customer Reviews

Patchy, uninspiring and shallow
When I decided to look for WCF books, I looked at amazon.com site and started looking for a 5 star book. Back then (late 2007) this had a few 5 star ratings and I was convinced that it is the book I will read.

When finally after a few months got the time to sit down and read it, my enthusiasm gradually vanished as I read more and more of the book. The first few chapters are long but generally padded and just to fill in for an SOA topic.

The book does not cover the concepts and technical details of WCF for a senior developer or architect. The book is patchy and does not cover all the subjects. Details on some topics such as transaction is almost limited to configuration and simple how-to rather than details and pitfalls.

Not inspiring. Not happy with the purchase and I am not recommending this book.

Great book, covers WCF and SOA to a tee!
This book contains a current representation of SOA in relation to .NET 3.0 and WCF. Its full of practical examples and follows a case study along the chapters. Its clear Chris and Dennis know what they are talking about and this backed up with their experieces as MVPs and Dennis's close links with Microsoft (via Avanade). I was tempted to supliment this book with "Expert Service-Oriented Architectures in C# 2005" to cover the entire SOA arena, but believe me this book is more than enough and turns out the other title doesnt cover WCF anyway, and is focused on Web-Services.

Lacking
I have to agree with the more negative reviews of this book. The book rambles in places and gives shallow how to's in the places where you want the most detail, i.e. transactions, queuing and routing. I laboured all the way through the book and feel i've gleamed only the basics, i will now look to the books from Orielly to give me what i wanted.