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9780672330247 Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is a new Microsoft
technology for allowing software to communicate. Superseding earlier
technologies, such as COM/DCOM, .NET Remoting, ASP.NET Web Services, and the
Web Services Enhancements for .NET, WCF provides a single solution that is
designed to always be the best way to exchange data among software entities. It
also provides the infrastructure for developing the next generation of Web
services, with support for the WS-* family of specifications, and a new
serialization system for enhanced performance. For information technology
professionals, WCF supplies an impressive array of administration tools that
enterprises and software vendors can use to reduce the cost of ownership of
their solutions without writing a single line of code. Most important, WCF
finally delivers on the long-postponed promise of model-driven software
development with the new software factory approach, by which one can
iteratively design solutions in a modeling language and generate executables
from lower-level class libraries. Windows Communication Foundation Unleashed
is designed to be the best resource for software developers and architects
working with WCF. The book guides readers toward a conceptual understanding of
all the facilities of WCF and provides step-by-step guides to applying the
technology to practical problems. Introduces you to WCF and then takes you
deep inside the technology Gives you nearly 100 best practices for programming
with WCF Provides detailed coverage on how to version services that you will
not find anywhere else Delves into using WCF together with Windows Workflow
Foundation and Windows CardSpace Provides detailed coverage of the new
high-performance data contract serializer for .NET Walks you through how to do
secure, reliable, transacted messaging, and how to understand the options
available Introduces you to federated, claims-based security, and shows you how
to incorporate SAML and WS-Trust security token services into your architecture
Provides step-by-step instructions for how to customize every aspect of WCF
Shows you how to add your own behaviors, communication channels, message
encoders, and transports Gives you options for implementing publish/subscribe
solutions Walks you through how to do peer-to-peer communications with WCF As
evangelists at Microsoft for WCF, Craig McMurtry, Marc Mercuri, Nigel Watling,
and Matt Winkler are uniquely positioned to write this book. They had access to
the product as it was being built and to the development team itself. Their
work with enterprises and outside software vendors has given them insight into
how others see the software, how they want to apply it, and the challenges they
face in doing so.
Foreword Introduction Part I Introducing the Windows Communication
Foundation 2 The Fundamentals
3 Data Representation 4 Sessions, Reliable Sessions, Queues, and Transactions
Part II Introducing the Windows Workflow Foundation 5 Fundamentals of the
Windows Workflow Foundation 6 Using the Windows Communication Foundation and
the Windows Part III Security 7 Security Basics 8 Windows CardSpace,
Information Cards, and the Identity Metasystem 9 Securing Applications with
Information Cards 10 Advanced Security Part IV Integration and Interoperability
11 Legacy Integration
12 Interoperability Part V Extending the Windows Communication Foundation 13
Custom Behaviors 14 Custom Channels 15 Custom Transports Part VI Special Cases
16 Publish/Subscribe Systems 17 Peer Communication 18 Representational State
Transfer and Plain XML Services Part VII The Lifecycle of Windows Communication
Foundation Applications 19 Manageability
20 Versioning
Part VIII Guidance
21 Guidance
Index