Pro WCF 4: Practical Microsoft SOA Implementation [Paperback]

Pro WCF 4.0: Practical Microsoft SOA Implementation is a complete guide to Windows Communication Foundation from the?service-oriented architecture (SOA)?perspective, showing you why WCF is important to service-oriented architecture and development. This book provides deep insight into the functionality of WCF, which shipped with .NET 4.0-like service discovery, routing service, simplified configuration, and other advanced features. Included in this title are informative examples that will aid the reader in understanding and implementing these important additions. This book also covers the unified programming model, reliable messaging, security, and the peer-to-peer programming model. You'll also learn how to move your current .NET remoting and web service applications to WCF, and how to integrate those applications with WCF 4. This book offers genuine insight into solving real enterprise problems using WCF and .NET 4.0.

1. Introducing WCF and SOA Basics
2. What's New in WCF 4
3. Exploring the WCF Programming Model
4. Installing and Creating WCF Services?
5. Hosting and Consuming WCF Services
6. Managing WCF Services
7. Implementing WCF Security
8. Implementing Reliable Messaging and Queue-Based Communications
9. Using Transactions in WCF
10. Integrating with COM+
11. Working with Data
12. Developing Peer-to-Peer Applications with WCF
13. Implementing SOA Interoperability
14. Appendix: QuickReturns Ltd

Nishith Pathak is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP), reviewer, published Apress author, speaker, and Microsoft purist who has been working on the .NET platform since its early beta days. Nishith was born, raised, and educated in a town called Kotdwara in Uttaranchal, India.l‡