Microsoft Windows
Communication Foundation
4.0 Cookbook for Developing
SOA Applications
Over 85 easy recipes for managing communication
between applications
Steven Cheng
P U B L I S H I N G
professional expertise distilled
BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI
Microsoft Windows Communication Foundation 4.0
Cookbook for Developing SOA Applications
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Foreword
In the process of development and integration of enterprise applications and systems,
SOA is a exible 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 specic features as follows:
• Simplied conguration
• Standard endpoints
• IIS hosting without an SVC le
• WS-Discovery
• Routing service (previously included with Dublin)
• REST caching and Help page
• Workow 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
