Professional WCF Programming: .NET Development with the Windows Communication Foundation (Programmer to Programmer)

Part of the new .NET 3.0 extensions to .NET 2.0, WCF provides a unified platform for building and running connected systems and will be used by almost every .NET or SQL Server developer Targeted to experienced developers who want to build service-oriented and transactional applications on the Microsoft platform that offer reliable and secure transactional messaging Addresses the WCF technologies as well as the next generation of configuring and deploying network-distributed services Key topics discussed include binding, contracts, clients, services, security, deployment, management, and hosting

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A little hard to follow.
This book is hard to follow.

It could be useful as quick reference for API details but I would not recommend this book to new learners.

You can find definitions on lots of classes and methods but it does not provide realistic code examples or diagrams that help visualize conceptual frame works.


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Avoid this book
Started out learning WCF from scratch and was getting nowhere with this book. It doesn't really do a good job of providing a conceptual framework to the reader. Provides a lot of API detail, but it leaves you wondering what in the world to do with it. O'Reilly's Learning WCF did a MUCH better job of getting me started.

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Just Plain Bad
Simply put, this book isn't worth your time. Even as an experienced programmer I had trouble keeping up with the out-of-order explanations, typos, terrible examples, and incorrect walk-throughs.

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Wrox has done better.
I am disappointed with the book as well. It has quite a few typos, errors, and many of the examples are just wrong. This book looks like it was rushed out the door with very little proof reading. Some of the chapters look like little more than rewritten MSDN reference material. Don't waste your time; better references exist.

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Terrible
Utter waste of money. Waded through all of it. Not well organized. At times incoherent. Often just a listing of classes and methods. Offers few insights. Lots of errors. Author lacks a clear understanding of the WCF or the true significance of some of the classes and methods. Read SAMS Windows Communication Foundation Unleashed, it's much better. MSDN documentation is far better than this book.