Windows Communication Foundation By Jayesh Chudasama

Inside Microsoft® Windows Communication Foundation

By Justin Smith

The practical guide to learning the intricacies of the Windows Communication Foundation

Dive deep into the operation of Microsoft Windows Communication Foundation with this practical, hands-on book—and learn the intricacies of Windows Communication Foundation and service-oriented concepts and implementations. Fundamentally, services are not objects.

Given the prevalence of the object-oriented paradigm over the past 20 years, experienced developers need to explore a new way of thinking about architecting solutions.

Concise and practical, this guide explains the fundamentals of applications built with a service-oriented architecture and how the international standards for Web services are implemented in Windows Communication Foundation.

Each chapter includes at least two practical code samples in Microsoft Visual C#