WCF 4.5 Multi-Layer Services
Development with Entity
Framework
Third Edition
Build SOA applications on Microsoft platforms with
this hands-on guide
Mike Liu
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WCF 4.5 Multi-Layer Services Development with
Entity Framework
Third Edition
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About the Author
Mike Liu studied Mathematics and Software Engineering at Nanjing University
and Brandeis University, graduating with a Bachelor's degree and a Master's degree
respectively. He is a Sun Certied Java Programmer (SCJP), Microsoft Certied
Solution Developer for Visual Studio 6.0, and Microsoft Certied Solution Developer
for .NET. He has been working as a Software Engineer/Architect on various platforms
(DOS, Unix, and Windows), using C/C++, Java, VB/VB.NET, and C#.
Mike started using C# for production development back in the year 2001 when C#
was still in beta stage and he is now working as a Senior Software Engineer for an
investment management rm in Boston Mass.
Mike had his rst book MITT: Multi-user Integrated Table-processing Tool Under Unix
published in 1993, and second book Advanced C# Programming published in 2003.
The previous two versions of this book—WCF Multi-tier Services Development with
LINQ and WCF 4.0 Multi-tier Services Development with LINQ to Entities—were
published in 2008 and 2010.
Many thanks to the editors and technical reviewers at Packt
Publishing. Without their help, this book wouldn't be of such high
quality. And thanks to my wife Julia Guo, and to my two sons,
Kevin and James Liu, for their consideration and sacrices while
I was working on this book.
