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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 


# Paperback: 736 pages
# Publisher: Microsoft Press; 1 edition (November 30, 2010)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0735645566
# ISBN-13: 978-0735645561