Inside Windows Communication Foundation

 Get the deep architectural insights you need for building service-oriented applications. Dig into Windows Communication Foundation internals - and uncover the power of service-oriented design. This practical guide delivers in-depth insights and plenty of code samples to help you master the intricacies of developing and implementing connected applications.

Discover how to:

• Use service-oriented concepts to build a reliable messaging infrastructure
• Build support for ever-evolving messaging transports, protocols, and functionality
• Develop and listen on multiple endpoints
• Add messaging functionality with message exchange patterns, topologies, and choreographies
• Serialize, deserialize, encode, and decode Message objects
• Generate industry-standard documents with service, data, and message contracts
• Build stacks of channel factory and listener objects with binding types
• Develop channel layer constructs and manage them over their lifetime
• Create custom channels with the Windows Communication Foundation API

About the Author Justin Smith:

Justin Smith is an expert on building distributed applications and a developer evangelist at Microsoft. He is a former trainer and consultant at Wintellect, where he helped develop the Windows Communication Foundation course for professional developers. Justin regularly speaks at industry and user-group events, including DevWeek and MSDN Code Camp.