Your hands-on, step-by-step guide to building connected, service-oriented applications. Teach yourself the essentials of windows communication foundation (wcf) 4 -- one step at a time. With this practical, learn-by-doing tutorial, you get the clear guidance and hands-on examples you need to begin creating web services for robust windows-based business applications. Discover how to: * build and host soap and rest services * maintain service contracts and data contracts * control configuration and communications programmatically * implement message encryption, authentication, and authorization * manage identity with windows cardspace * begin working with windows workflow foundation to create scalable and durable business services * implement service discovery and message routing * optimize performance with service throttling, encoding, and streaming * integrate wcf services with asp.Net clients and enterprise services components your step by step digital content includes: * practice exercises * downloadable code samples * fully searchable online edition of the book -- with unlimited access on the web