Learning WCF

This easy-to-use introduction to Microsoft Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is ideal for developers who want to learn to build services on a company network or as part of an enterprise system. Built into Windows Vista and Longhorn, and available for Windows XP and Windows 2003, WCF provides a platform for service-oriented architecture (SOA) that enables secure and reliable communication among systems within an organization or across the Internet. With WCF, software developers can focus on their business applications and not the plumbing required to connect them. Furthermore, with WCF.

Includes index.

Table of Contents; Forewords; Preface; Who This Book Is For; How This Book Is Organized; Chapters Overview; Labs and Code Samples; Assumptions About the Reader; System Requirements; Your Working Directory; Conventions Used in This Book; Comments and Questions; Safari® Enabled; Acknowledgments; Hello Indigo; Service Oriented Architecture; From OOP to SOA; What Is a Service?; Tenets of SOA; Service boundaries are explicit; Services are autonomous; Clients and services share contracts, not code; Compatibility is based upon policy; Big SOA, Little SOA; WCF Services; Fundamental WCF Concepts.

Message SerializationServices; Hosting; Endpoints; Addresses; Bindings; Metadata; Proxies; Channels; Behaviors; Creating a New Service from Scratch; Creating a new service; Hosting a service; Creating a proxy to invoke a service; Assembly Allocation; Defining a Service; Hosting a Service; Exposing Service Endpoints; Addresses; Bindings; Contracts; Creating a Client Proxy; Generating a Service and Client Proxy; Using the WCF Service template; Configuring service endpoints using the Service Configuration Editor; Generating a proxy with Add Service Reference; Creating a WCF Service Library.

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